New York critics have some things to say about the La Jolla Playhouse-bred musical “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,” whose Broadway production opened Monday. And few of those things ap…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:18PMWhat do you give a guy for his 454th birthday? A party is always good, which is what the Old Globe Theatre has in mind for tomorrow (April 21) as it pays tribute to that house playwright, th…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:50PMWhen last seen in San Diego, Edred Utomi was rocking a bright-red wig and an ungainly, podlike costume as a somewhat anonymous ensemble member in “Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christ…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:00AMSDSU’s School of Theatre, Television and Film is reviving “Anna in the Tropics,” Nilo Cruz’s lyrical but seldom-staged 2003 Pulitzer winner, set in a Florida cigar factory circa 1929…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMIt’s not easy making an arranged marriage fly — between people, or between paired relationships in a play. The course of Anna Ziegler’s probing world-premiere work “The Wanderers,”…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMA quick look at some highlights from the coming month’s performing-arts openings in the San Diego region: Soul Doctor Through April 22. Lyceum Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza, downtown. 619.544.1…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00PMThe last time the fast-rising playwright Anna Ziegler was at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, it was with “The Last Match,” the story of an intense rivalry between two top tennis pros. N…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMAn actor shouting “Line!” is normally about the last thing you want to hear during a play. But in “Men on Boats,” it’s not a desperate request for what to say next: It’s a charac…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:15PMBe warned: Once you see “Beachtown,” it may forever ruin how you view run-of-the-mill municipal meetings — what with their distinct lack of entertaining politicians, fired-up citizens …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:10PMA work by the longtime head of the University of California San Diego’s graduate playwriting program will receive its world premiere next month as the next project in La Jolla Playhouse’…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMThe curtain is rising on new leadership at Broadway/San Diego, which has announced that Vanessa Y. Davis is now general manager of the local touring-show presenter. Davis succeeds Joe Kobryn…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:30PMWhen you hear Nadia Guevara describe herself as “a hippie to the core,” and talk of how her “entire adult life has been a series of happy accidents,” you might be tempted to conclude…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00AMFor the characters at its center, “American Mariachi” is a story of people defying bias and cultural expectations in pursuit of a dream. For the five women portraying those characters, i…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMThere’s all sorts of political and personal intrigue coursing through “King Charles III,” Mike Bartlett’s boldly imaginative, blank-verse play about the near future in Great Britain.…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:30PM“Send in the clowns,” goes the title line from the most famous song in “A Little Night Music.” And when Cygnet Theatre first staged the show a decade ago, artistic director Sean Murr…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:30PMMichael S. Rosenberg is stepping down as managing director of La Jolla Playhouse to take on the same job title at the McCarter Theatre Center in New Jersey, the Playhouse announced Tuesday. …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:30PMIf you could diagram the intertwined lives of the people in Steven Dietz’s inspired “This Random World,” it might look like one of those M.C. Escher drawings where lines somehow connec…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:15PMIt’s true that “Beachtown,” the audience-interactive work that has its world premiere at San Diego Rep next month, is what could be called an “immersive” work of theater. That does…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:00AMThe plays of Anton Chekhov form a pillar of world drama, second maybe only to the works of mighty Shakespeare in importance and influence. But the thing about pillars is, they’re a little …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMBekah Brunstetter is not a big fan of turbulence. At least of the literal kind. The last time the playwright was in San Diego, for the Old Globe’s 2013 production of her dark comedy “Be …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:00PMIt’s an irrefutable truth, a basic principle of human existence: Things just go better with ninjas. Not that “Vietgone” necessarily needs their help. Qui Nguyen’s bursting-with-perso…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMJane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” gets put through the modern-romcom mixmaster in “I Love You Because,” the off-Broadway chamber musical about to hit the stage in Ocean Beach. Th…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMYou can hear the voice-acting talents of Herbert Siguenza in the current hit movie “Coco,” and you’ve been able to witness his talents as a stage actor and writer for decades now via h…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:00AMIn the 21 years since she made her Broadway debut in the musical “Steel Pier,” Kristin Chenoweth has won both a Tony Award (for “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown”) and an Emmy (for…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMYou could argue that every week is theater week in San Diego — one of the most active theater towns in America, with a reputation that stretches to Broadway and beyond thanks to the new wo…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMQui Nguyen wrote “Vietgone” more or less on a dare. From his own mother. Who, as it happens, the play is pretty much about. The kicker is, the playwright’s mom has yet to see the piece…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00PMEngland’s King Henry VIII made for a notoriously nasty husband: If you were a wife of his, chances were one in three you’d get your head lopped off eventually. But in Kate Hennig’s bra…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMA decade ago last May, San Diego Musical Theatre launched with a production of “The Full Monty,” the movie-based musical about steelworkers who moonlight as amateur strippers. The compan…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMThe distinguished director-actor Maria Aitken might be a bigger name in Britain than she is on these shores. But if you saw what she did with the ingeniously amusing Hitchcock ode “The 39 …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMThe biggest thing happening in San Diego theater at the moment — actually, the biggest in quite a few moments — isn’t really part of San Diego theater at all. It’s the touring produc…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00PMRewind your mind to a time when America was less a country than a concept, a wild surmise birthed in bloodshed and steeped in dreams of sweet freedom. And then consider the unlikely triumph …
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