Monday, May 25, 2015
World Premiere of a potential Broadway show
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 05:58PMSunday, April 8, 2012
Fables are fun in the theatre, where the sharing of a simple story told with intimate direct address creates a delicious sense of belonging to an ancient race with basic truths that don&rsqu…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMMonday, March 19, 2012
Eugene O’Neill is the artist who first forced the world to confront the American Theatre. Almost alone in the early 20th Century, he chose the largest themes life could offer and wrest…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMMonday, March 12, 2012
Musical theatre offers the nuance of music and lyrics in trade for the subtleties of the written word when dealing with a stylish classic like E.M. Forster’s A ROOM WITH A VIEW.
Usuall…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMMonday, February 20, 2012
In Lisa Kron’s excellent play IN THE WAKE, now being marvelously presented by the San Diego Rep in their Lyceum Space, everybody is eloquent and everybody suffers.
This is chewy theat…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 03:00PM”Visiting Mr. Green” is a Yiddisher bon-bon, perfect as a recommendation for elderly Jewish relatives interested in a night out.
Really, really elderly. Because things have chang…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 03:00PMMonday, February 13, 2012
GUYS AND DOLLS, one of the mere handful of genuine masterpieces in the American musical theatre, is getting a sturdy, likeable but somewhat bloodless production by the Lamb’s Players. …
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 03:00PMFriday, January 27, 2012
THE RECCOMENDATION is a young man’s play,
frantic with jagged urgency over choosing the right next step from the options tumbling past so swiftly. But it is we old men, who understand …
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 03:00PMFriday, January 20, 2012
I thought we might be finally done with those tragic Old-South epics of the Civil War legacy. The dilapidated plantations, once-proud families, the ruined gallantry, the uncomfortable racial…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 03:00PMThursday, December 8, 2011
Not a bad premise for a little Christmas musical: What ultimately happens to O’Henry’s loving young couple from “The Gift of the Magi,” the story where she sells her …
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 03:00PMThursday, December 1, 2011
Any doubts that JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR is a genuine modern musical masterpiece should be banished forever by the splendid production in residence at the La Jolla Playhouse through December.
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SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 03:00PMFriday, September 30, 2011
SOMEWHERE, now in its world premiere on the Old Globe’s White Theatre stage, is a play with a choreographer but no musical director. And its five actors offer some of the best theatre …
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMFriday, September 23, 2011
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW is still a triumph of form over content. The story is piffle; the presentation is all. What’s surprising is how well the thing works, 40 years later.
It was titil…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMFriday, August 19, 2011
TRYING, now at the Lamb’s Players Theatre in Coronado, is one of those rueful, wintry dramas of the great man living out his last days. The end is inevitable; the only question is will…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMThursday, August 4, 2011
Word association: What is the first word you think of when someone says...Shaw? The answer may well be “words.”
Or as Eliza Doolittle says/sings in PYGMALION/MY FAIR LADY, &ldquo…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMSunday, July 24, 2011
It’s the kind of idea that blooms late in a brainstorm session and then just never goes away until it becomes reality.
”How about a musical dealing with sleep disorders and featu…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMThursday, July 7, 2011
The big question hanging over a stage adaptation of a beloved film fantasy is what happens to the piece when it’s transferred from one type of magic to another.
Millions of fans, inclu…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMWednesday, June 29, 2011
The moment that defines any staging of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING is Beatrice’s command in Scene 1, Act IV, when Benedict begs her to choose a service he can perform to prove his love: &ld…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMSaturday, June 25, 2011
Adrian Nobel is a splendid leader, able to lift a company to new levels of confident achievement, but he works best as a collaborator. Especially with Shakespeare.
His staging of KING LEAR f…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMSunday, June 19, 2011
Prospero, after all, is only human. He’s spent 12 years exiled on an isolated island, perfecting his magic, driven by revenge fantasies, sure than he will eventually snare those who wr…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMFriday, May 13, 2011
Outside, the corn maybe as high as an elephant’s eye, but inside the cluttered old Weston mansion is an Oklahoma far from Rodgers and Hammerstein, lurching toward a climax that may pur…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMFriday, May 6, 2011
The English dramatist Alan Ayckbourn has now written 75 plays! Not counting, it says here, the one-acts, revue turns and kids’ shows!
With the American premiere of his 74th play &ndash…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMSunday, April 17, 2011
Nothing like ethnic for that warm family feeling, where the generations squabble and the changes wrench, right up to the group hug of togetherness at the finale. The Jews, the Irish, he Ital…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PM 
