Monday, March 25, 2019
'Perestroika' probes spirituality and human struggle as Tony Kushner masterwork concludes
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:06PMSunday, March 24, 2019
Spring in San Diego means more music in more venues, as the outdoor concert season gets under way. Morgan James Broadway vocal veteran James, 27, shines whether doing original numbers or put…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00AMThe plays of Lynn Nottage have a way of taking on huge and difficult topics and distilling them into intimate, gritty and deeply authentic stories of individual lives in turmoil. They shy fr…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00AMFrom “Cats” to Jane Austen to people in space — but not, alas, “Cats” in space — San Diego’s spring theater scene has a little bit of everything. Old Globe Theatre: "They Promi…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00AMThursday, March 21, 2019
Robert Battle likens the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s diverse repertory to a buffet of delicious dance offerings. The company is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a San Diego t…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMTuesday, March 19, 2019
For an “internationally ignored song stylist,” the one and only Hedwig Robinson is flirting awfully close to fame these days. (And Hedwig does love to flirt.) The wisecracking, gender-fl…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:50PMSunday, 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 08:00AMWednesday, March 13, 2019
Musical theater is rich with memorable and stirring sentiments: “No day but today.” “I could have danced all night.” “There’s a place for us.” And, of course: “Supreme execut…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:00PMMonday, March 11, 2019
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 05:40PMSunday, March 10, 2019
Hula hoops are not the first thing most fans associate with Gordon Lightfoot, the veteran Canadian singer-songwriter best known for writing and singing such hit songs as “Sundown,” “If…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:05AMAs 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 09:00AMSaturday, March 9, 2019
With the who’s who of the ballet world gathered at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido, parents Saturday were seemingly more on edge than their talented offspring. That’s bec…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:20PMIn 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, March 8, 2019
“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 04:05PMTuesday, March 5, 2019
When the Joffrey Ballet performs “Beyond the Shore,” a dance created by choreographer and ballet master Nicolas Blanc, the audience is invited to witness a daring journey through an ever…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00PMMonday, March 4, 2019
If 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 04:50PMFriday, March 1, 2019
Princess 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 07:10PMTuesday, February 26, 2019
Heartbreaking, 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 05:35PMSaturday, February 23, 2019
The 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 03:00PMWednesday, February 20, 2019
North 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 04:00PMTuesday, February 19, 2019
It 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 07:30PMFriday, February 15, 2019
Coursing 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 05:40PMThursday, February 14, 2019
If 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 03:42PMOn a recent trip to Paris, against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower, Adam Bloodgood got down on one knee and proposed to Isabelle Overstreet. The newly engaged couple, both classical dancers…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00AMTuesday, February 12, 2019
A 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 06:30PMMonday, February 11, 2019
And 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 05:30PMSunday, February 10, 2019
Three 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 05:30PMFriday, February 8, 2019
Advice 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 11:20AMSunday, February 3, 2019
With a flimsy storyline amounting to little more than an evocation of the old Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland “Let’s put on a show!” films of the ’30s wrapped around a love story, “Craz…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:45PMThe stars were out in force to salute Joni Mitchell in music and words at the two sold-out 75th birthday concerts in her honor last November at the Los Angeles Music Music Center. The second…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:30PM 
