Saturday, May 18, 2019
Tenor Stephen Costello and baritone Stephen Powell formed an unusual duo in season-closing concert at Balboa Theatre
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:23AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Monday, April 8, 2019
Playwright Young Jean Lee wrote the 2007 play about her lifelong struggle with Christianity
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:15PMMonday, April 1, 2019
Mission Hills mezzo-soprano resident Guadalupe Paz plays Mercedes the Gypsy in production of Bizet's opera at the San Diego Civic Theatre
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00AMSunday, March 31, 2019
San Diego Opera closes its mainstage season this week with a mostly sold-out production of Bizet's tragic love triangle
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:30PMScaled-down company, with budget half the size of five years ago, plans three mainstage and three Detour series shows next season
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00AMMonday, March 18, 2019
If ever there was a show tailor-made for the Welk Resort Theatre in Escondido, it’s “Menopause the Musical.” The 90-minute musical revue takes a light and sometimes hilarious look at t…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:30PMSunday, March 17, 2019
Besides being one of the most beloved operas in history, Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” has another international distinction. It’s also widely accepted as one of the best operas for a fir…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00AMBesides being one of the most beloved operas in history, Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” has another international distinction. It’s also widely accepted as one of the best operas for a fir…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00AMSaturday, March 9, 2019
In the opening scene of Jake Heggie’s chamber opera “Three Decembers,” the seemingly pedestrian subject matter, lengthy plot exposition via long-distance phone call and unmelodic recit…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:30PMFriday, January 18, 2019
The national touring production of “Hello, Dolly!” opened a six-day run at the San Diego Civic Theatre on Tuesday, which was the same day its original star, Carol Channing, passed away a…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:42AMSunday, November 4, 2018
For decades, a 4-foot-tall illuminated crystal Champagne glass stood in the lobby of the Welk Resorts Theatre in Escondido. Today that oversize TV prop from “The Lawrence Welk Show” is g…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:45PMSunday, August 5, 2018
In “Hairspray,” idealistic Baltimore teen Tracy Turnblad becomes famous for teasing and spraying her hair to gravity-defying heights. That’s also a good way to describe San Diego Music…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:45PMSunday, June 24, 2018
The premise for The Roustabout Theatre Co.’s new comedy “Romeo, Romeo & Juliet” can be told in a nutshell: She loves him, but he loves another him. Yet despite the script’s basic lov…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:15PMSunday, May 20, 2018
It’s mere coincidence that Stephanie Alison Walker’s play “The Madres” premiered Saturday at Moxie Theatre during the era of America’s Women’s Marches. The playwright actually ba…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:35PMThursday, March 29, 2018
“Phantom of the Opera” holds the record as Broadway’s longest-running musical, but its sequel, “Love Never Dies,” has a hard a time living up to its elder sibling. After “Love”…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:40PMSunday, March 11, 2018
When San Diego Opera opens “Florencia en el Amazonas” on Saturday, the star soprano will be singing the title role for the very first time. But that’s no problem for Elaine Alvarez, wh…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:00AMSunday, February 25, 2018
Over the past 20 years, San Diego Opera audiences have been treated to the spectacle of Giacomo Puccini’s epic fairy tale “Turandot” four times. But until this week, they’ve essentia…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:00PMOver the past three years, San Diego Opera's audience has grown accustomed to change as the company downsized, stabilized and refashioned its programming for new audiences. So they may be su…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:30AMSunday, February 18, 2018
When she was 4 years old, Angel Joy Blue saw her very first opera: “Turandot.” This week, the Southern California soprano will mark another first. She’ll make her role debut as Liù in…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:30AMSunday, January 28, 2018
“The Full Monty” has deep roots in San Diego. It was born at The Old Globe in 2000, and it was the first musical ever produced by San Diego Musical Theatre in May 2007. On Saturday, SDMT…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:45PMMonday, October 16, 2017
Back in the 1980s, actor/playwright Eric Bogosian became an off-Broadway darling with his incendiary, multicharacter solo plays that pulsed with near-manic energy, rage and male testosterone…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:10PMSunday, October 8, 2017
When “The Pirates of Penzance” made its world premiere in New York in 1879, the musicians in the orchestra pit threatened to strike because Arthur Sullivan’s intricate score was far to…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00AMThursday, September 14, 2017
In Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2008 musical “In the Heights,” immigrant and first-generation Americans sing and rap about their hopes and dreams. They’re all struggling to make their way in…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 03:30PMMonday, August 7, 2017
In Mat Smart’s black comedy “Kill Local,” Sheila’s in a dead-end job. Video games and Chipotle takeout are far more compelling than carrying on the family business. But murder doesn�…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:45PMThursday, July 27, 2017
‘The Book of Mormon” is hardly a traditional stage musical, but in its third visit to San Diego in four years, the outrageous comedy has settled into comfortably traditional touring stat…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:15PMSaturday, June 17, 2017
The musical “Big Fish” is the story about a dying father and his adult son who become estranged over the dad’s passion for spinning wildly embellished tales. It was first told in a suc…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:50PMThursday, May 11, 2017
Thirteen years ago, “Jersey Boys” was born at La Jolla Playhouse and went straight to Broadway, where it prospered in a 12-year run that finally concluded in January. Now, the musical bi…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:45PMTuesday, May 9, 2017
“Come From Away,” the 9/11-inspired Broadway musical that premiered at La Jolla Playhouse in 2015, won five awards Monday, including Outstanding Musical, from the Outer Critics Circle in…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:30PMWednesday, April 5, 2017
San Diego audiences are finally getting a look at “Finding Neverland” this week, five years after a planned production of the “Peter Pan”-inspired musical at La Jolla Playhouse was s…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:00PMFriday, March 10, 2017
Three years after knocking San Diego’s collective socks off on its first tour through town, “Kinky Boots” is back. The touring musical that continues through Sunday at the San Diego Ci…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:00PM 
