In 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…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:00PMIf you thought last January’s tour visit of the world-beating Broadway musical “Hamilton” was destined to steal the thunder of San Diego’s theater year, our local stage scene stood r…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMSo you’ve roasted all the chestnuts, decked all the halls and whipped up enough figgy pudding to feed a legion of carolers. But if you haven’t seen any holiday theater yet, there’s sti…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:00AMNew plays by both national talents and enterprising local community members will all be part of the celebration when the sixth edition of the Old Globe’s Powers New Voices Festival gets un…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:20PMThe holidays bring more seasonally themed staged productions to San Diego theaters than you can shake a candy cane at. And along with those shows come a parade of characters both naughty and…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00AMNearly every holiday season for the past 27 years, San Diego’s Teatro Máscara Mágica has staged a fresh take on the Mexican Christmas tradition of the “Pastorela,” a play about the b…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMIn the first moments of “The Year to Come,” a woman named Pam shambles onstage, oxygen tank in tow, to offer what seems some deeply considered advice: “Only look ahead.” And if you t…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:45PMThe five prime movers behind the new Tuyo Theatre are in the middle of trying to articulate the happy accidents and artistic affinities that brought them all together, when a single word see…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00AMIt’s been 30 years now since “Always … Patsy Cline” was first produced, which means that the show now has been around as long as its famous country-music namesake was alive. That doe…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMAs if diving into the lives of a big extended family over two decades and three generations weren’t quite enough for Lindsey Ferrentino, the rising playwright’s latest work poses an adde…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:00PMSara Bareilles didn’t know quite what she was getting into when she signed on to write the score for “Waitress,” the musical-stage adaptation of the late Adrienne Shelly’s film about…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMThree years after it premiered at San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse, the musical “Come From Away” — a story of journeys interrupted by tragedy and redeemed by kindness — is about to s…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:33PMWhen the Broadway stars Matthew Morrison and Kelli O’Hara reunite for a concert with the San Diego Symphony next week, you can count on hearing their voices soar. There’s also a slight p…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:42AMWhen it comes to holiday stage happenings in San Diego, the traditional theater feast feels just a bit slimmed-down this year, with such notable absences as Lamb’s Players Theatre’s long…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00AMA door gets the last word (as it were) in Henrik Ibsen’s great 1879 play “A Doll’s House,” when the disaffected Norwegian housewife Nora Helmer slams it on her husband and her own st…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:00AMIt takes a perverse sense of poetry to make a grin sound grim. But leave it to Sarah Ruhl to achieve that early on in “Melancholy Play,” her charmingly oddball 2002 work now getting a re…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMFirst, it was the story of religion in a scenic mountain metropolis — and maybe, to some degree, the story of any place in America confronting tensions between the secular world and commun…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMCountry music has always been the place where Clint Black hangs his hat — and if you know this Texas-raised superstar, you’ve seen the jet-black cowboy number that has long been his head…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:30PMThe forest outside Athens was a patch of plastic chairs, and fluorescent lights stood in for moonglow, but playgoers still found magic in the staging of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night�…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:25PM“What’s past is prologue,” as Shakespeare wrote in “The Tempest.” And when people from across the San Diego theater community first began gathering last spring for a series of summ…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMBoth leads Jackie Burns (Broadway's longest running Elphaba) & Kara Lindsay (a comic natural)have deep experience with their roles and it shows brilliantly as they get strong support from Jo…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:01AMWhether portraying a frazzled acting teacher in La Jolla Playhouse’s “What Happens Next”, a troubled waitress in Ion Theatre’s “Bug” or a fame-hungry spinster in Diversionary’s…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:30PMStephen Schwartz remembers exactly where he was when “Wicked” opened on Broadway 15 years ago this month. And it wasn’t anywhere near the Emerald City. “I was already in Vermont,” …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:00AMAssimilation, discrimination, the hazards of navigating dual cultural identities: Those are big, potentially daunting concepts that are skillfully distilled into an intimate story made both …
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:00PMYou might’ve thought Jane Austen had visions of orchestras and chorus lines in her head when she was penning all those famous novels, so regularly are they now adapted into works of musica…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00PMThe trailers for the upcoming movie “Holmes & Watson” depict Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly — as the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusty confidant, Dr. John Watson — snap…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00PMSpanish-language telenovelas — those pulpy soap operas that play out like romance-novel cover shots come to life — are clearly not the subtlest of entertainment forms. But in Tony Menese…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:30PMEvery year, the winners of the statewide Playwrights Project contest prove that young dramatists are fully capable of thinking outside the box. This time around, though, one honoree has show…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:00PMIf it’s true, as F. Scott Fitzgerald said, that there are no second acts in American lives, then Carole King is one radiant exception: The pop composer co-wrote a string of enduring hits f…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:15PMAsk Rob Lowe what part of his touring one-man show he likes the best, and he’ll tell you, basically: The end. Not in a “please put me and the audience out of our collective misery and gr…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:30PMIf you think about it — that is, if you care to think about it, because it’s not the happiest thought — every relationship is kind of one long breakup. It’s pretty much assured that …
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