The world as it was — the world of 1985, when “Angels of America” begins — could hardly have imagined the news of 2019: Last week, it was announced that for the second time in histor…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:40PMThe world as it was — the world of 1985, when “Angels of America” begins — could hardly have imagined the news of 2019: Last week, it was announced that for the second time in histor…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:40PMAs San Diego Repertory Theatre announces its 2019-20 season — the company’s 44th — the downtown institution also is tweaking its mission statement, putting extra emphasis on such words…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00AMAs San Diego Repertory Theatre announces its 2019-20 season — the company’s 44th — the downtown institution also is tweaking its mission statement, putting extra emphasis on such words…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00AM“Sometimes people leave you / Halfway through the wood.” – “No One is Alone,” from “Into the Woods” In the fall of 1986, the musical “Into the Woods” had its world premiere…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:05PMIf you’re feeling protective of the British royal family, prepare to clutch your pearls. (If you’re a member of the British royal family, have someone clutch them for you.) The world-pre…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:50PMPrincess Diana died nearly 22 years ago, and yet in some sense she has never left: Search her name online and you’ll get a daily stream of “news” stories with such headlines as “Did …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:10PMHeartbreaking, thought-provoking, brilliantly unique: Those are some of the descriptions that come to Sean Murray’s mind when he talks about “Angels in America,” the playwright Tony Ku…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:35PMThe Broadway musical “Aladdin” may trace its DNA to the Disney movie universe, but this show’s beating heart resides in a mystical desert city of rare fortunes, exotic entertainments a…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMNorth Coast Rep stages the West Coast premiere of “Gabriel,” Moira Buffini’s wartime drama about a mystery man who washes up on a Nazi-occupied British isle in 1943; the play chronicle…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:30PMThere’s something Casey Nicholaw would like to say about “Aladdin,” and it may come as no surprise: This musical is not “A Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” “It’s just extravag…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMIt can be hard now to separate memories of Princess Diana’s life from the sad story of her passing, at age 36 in a 1997 Paris car accident. Even the song most associated with the much-love…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:30PMCoursing through Hershey Felder’s solo stage exploration of the life and legacy of Beethoven is an odd little mystery — one involving the great composer’s bones, which were dug up in t…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:40PMIf you’re a San Diego-based fan of Broadway’s new wave of musicals, it’s a good bet you will be found at the Civic Theatre come next winter. That’s when the hit show “Dear Evan Han…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:42PMA pair of shows staged in 2018 by the Old Globe and Lamb’s Players Theatre shared top honors at the 17th annual Craig Noel Awards on Monday night. The Globe production of the play “A Tho…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:30PMAnd you thought global warming was enough of a worry: Near the start of Miranda Rose Hall’s big-hearted new play “The Hour of Great Mercy,” a folksy radio host named Roger has a meltdo…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:30PMThree years ago, San Diego Theatre Week launched with an idea modeled after the popular Restaurant Week: Offer special deals to bring people through the doors and, with luck, turn them into …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:30PMAdvice columns. We all know how they go. Someone writes in, agonizing over a problem. Someone else replies with tips and admonitions and maybe a little pat on the head. Then — on to the ne…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:20AMAs the much-anticipated musical “Diana” nears its world premiere at San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse, director Christopher Ashley has had a chance to contemplate what things might be lik…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:30PMIn the theater world, there’s that magical phenomenon known as the “showmance” — a love affair that sparks when two people meet in a stage production. Of course, not all of those rom…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:30AMAs character names go, it’s pretty tough to top the moniker Marvelous. And you won’t get any argument from Cherene Snow, who plays the Zimbabwe-born American matriarch Marvelous Chinyara…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:30AMWhatever else it accomplishes, Julia Cho’s play “Aubergine” promises to give eggplant a good name. Or at least a better name than “eggplant.” The more graceful term “aubergine”…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:45PMSometimes there’s a moment in a show that just begs to be anointed with that old cliche: “This is worth the price of the ticket by itself.” And which moment is that in Lamb’s Players…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMBig airs and Broadway are destined for a major duet, with a just-announced stage musical whose creative team includes North County’s own skateboard deity Tony Hawk. The show is based on th…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:42AMYou may not know this about Isabella Rossellini, but she is big in Borneo. Actually, strike that: She is a bug in Borneo. Specifically: Ptomaphaginus isabellarossellini, a species of beetle …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:40AMTalk about a rare find: As a play that focuses closely on older women, Grace McLeod’s “Herland” almost qualifies as a theatrical unicorn. What’s more remarkable is that McLeod hersel…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:45AMThere are three things in life that please Betty Buckley above all others. As it happens, cats don’t make the cut. “The things I love most are music, theater and horses — not necessari…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:20AMSan Diego’s flagship theater — nationally renowned for its devotion to the works of Shakespeare — is rolling out a new professional training program aimed at keeping the Bard’s legac…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMLike the hero of the megahit musical “Hamilton,” Edred Utomi is young, scrappy and hungry — and now he has performed his way to the pinnacle of one of the biggest shows on the planet. …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMLamb’s Players Theatre has a knack for looking back: Five years ago, the company set a Guinness world record for nonstop live performance by staging a 100-hour reading of plays it had prod…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMIn its 34 years of staging contest-winning student works, the San Diego-based Playwrights Project had never before put up a fully produced musical for its annual Plays by Young Writers Festi…
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