947 stories by "James Hebert"
With barely three weeks until the Tony Awards ceremony, the La Jolla Playhouse-bred musical "Come From Away" " which is nominated for seven of the Broadway theater honors " continues to rack…
You don't have to be a close friend of Freud to believe that dreams can be a kind of core sample of one's closest-held hopes and fears " or know that they're often driven by a feel of the fa…
The moon is losing its light. Its caretaker has hurried off to find his wayward wife, leaving no one to refill the cosmic orb with liquid illumination each night. That's the story " or part …
For all the talk in "The Music Man" of big brass bands and boatloads of trombones, what's remarkable about this never-gets-old show is the way some of its best musical moments spring from th…
The song "Margaritaville" will forever call to mind a mystical land where the frosty beverages are as plentiful and necessary as the flip-flops (if only slightly less treacherous than the po…
A world-premiere musical about love and mental illness, a brand-new play about mariachis, plus some classic Chekhov, Wilde and Shakespeare and an epic set in Afghanistan. That's just the sta…
Des McAnuff still laughs when he recalls what the writer Marshall Brickman once said of "Jersey Boys": "If it were about four physicists, there wouldn't be any songs." That remark gets to th…
Two La Jolla Playhouse-bred shows will be right in the mix for the 2017 Tony Awards. The nominations for the top annual Broadway theater honors were announced today, and "Come From Away" was…
Peering at glass plates to divine the secrets of the cosmos, Henrietta Leavitt managed to crack the glass ceiling of astronomy. Lauren Gunderson's play "Silent Sky" honors the starry achieve…
Predicting the Tony Award nominations is easy: "Hamilton" for everything! Hang on … now we're being told that "Hamilton" is not, in fact, eligible to compete for the Broadway theater honor…
Two Broadway shows with La Jolla Playhouse origins are making plenty of noise in the annual round of New York theater-award nominations, boosting chances they'll be in contention for the Ton…
Dreams " of the "trippy visions while you slumber" variety " play a big role in "Ballast," the world-premiere play that's about to hit Diversionary Theatre's stage. And dreams " of the "maki…
After brief La Jolla visit, singer-songwriter has been all over the globe as his musical gets ready to debut
The just-announced pick as host of the 2017 Tony Awards is definitely not one of the usual suspects. The organizers of the annual Broadway theater honors revealed this morning that stage and…
To top its 2017 gala, the Old Globe Theatre is trotting out a "Rock" star. That would be Jane Krakowski, cast member of the former NBC hit "30 Rock" (and current Netflix hit "Unbreakable Kim…
Before they co-founded the Roustabouts, Phil Johnson and Ruff Yeager's most high-profile collaboration was on a trippy, B-movie-inspired comedy about alien spider people. But it turns out th…
Three hundred seventy-seven thousand two hundred minutes. No, that's not how the lyric from that big song in "Rent" will go once the new presidential administration's funding cuts begin to d…
'The Man Who Came to Dinner' When: 1 p.m. Thursdays and Sundays; 8 p.m. Fridays; 1 and 8 p.m. Saturdays. Through April 30. Where: Premiere Productions at the Welk Resorts Theatre, 8860 Lawre…
The Border Patrol agent thinks it's a con when Nayeli, the young Mexican heroine of "Into the Beautiful North," tells him why she has just crossed into the U.S. illegally. "You wanna go nort…
The Old Globe is about to go green with a big Dr. Seuss musical once again " but this time it has nothing to do with the Grinch. The Balboa Park theater is announcing that it will co-present…
'First Date" gets its first local dates starting this week, as San Diego Musical Theatre stages the area premiere of the Broadway-tested musical comedy. It's not the first go-round for SDMT …
The new musical "The Geeze and Me" delves into a litany of indignities that can come with age, from night sweats to incontinence to loss of sleep from contemplating that irreversible conditi…
The African-American actor Ira Aldridge broke an imposing color barrier in theater. The play "Red Velvet" portrays a moment when the theater also nearly broke him. Lolita Chakrabarti's richl…
With his 2009 novel "Into the Beautiful North," Luis Alberto Urrea took a familiar story " of would-be immigrants traversing the U.S.-Mexico border " and turned it on its head. Urrea's chara…
"Peter Pan" is the story of a gravity-defying young renegade who teaches others that they, too, can fly. "Finding Neverland" is the (more or less) real-life account of how that story got off…
