The people in "Awake and Sing!" can sling a quip or an insult like nobody's business " although pretty much everyone is up in everybody else's business in the cramped and often combative hou…
Spring brings a major crop of musicals to San Diego's stages " including a high-profile world premiere that showcases the songs of Jimmy Buffett. But there are some plays worth watching for,…
The dictionary lists a colorful clutch of definitions for "roustabout": deckhand, odd-jobber, circus worker, oil-field grunt. Now you can add another one to that motley roster: drama-slinger…
When San Diego's National Comedy Theatre marked its 5,000th show last weekend, the celebration was pretty low-key: a small pre-performance reception, the unveiling of a proclamation from the…
You can forgive the scheming producer Oscar Jaffe his extravagant fibs in the musical "On the Twentieth Century." After all, the name of the very train he's riding on is a lie. It's called t…
It's the kind of line you don't always hear an actor voice in the workaday world of rehearsing a new play: "I want truth to inform the depths and heights of what we do." Still, it's the kind…
As promised last week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau showed up for a performance of the La Jolla Playhouse-bred Broadway musical "Come From Away" on Wednesday. And he brought a surp…
The play "Awake and Sing!" has been hitting American stages in all its effusively punctuated glory since 1935. Everywhere, it seems, except San Diego " a fact that deserves its own exclamati…
The words that rang out over a brooding blues-guitar riff at the Horton Grand Theatre on Sunday told a story of both struggle and resilience: "She ain't seen peace for a while, but you can s…
The reviews are in for the Broadway premiere of the La Jolla Playhouse-bred musical "Come From Away," and this uplifting show set on one of modern history's darkest days seems to have melted…
Not quite two years ago, the musical "Come From Away" had its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse. Now, after stops in three other cities and lots of fine-tuning, the show is poised for a h…
For a stage actor, appearing in a Broadway show can be a dream come true. Appearing in the road production of a Broadway show? That can be fun, too " but you still don't hear many theater ar…
A couple of hot new comedies, a durable musical favorite and a fully immersive (and fully San Diego-ized) world-premiere play will highlight San Diego Rep's 2017-18 season. The lineup, a typ…
The cast of La Jolla Playhouse's Jimmy Buffett musical "Escape to Margaritaville" will be topped by an actor who's a familiar face to Playhouse audiences. The Playhouse is announcing today t…
"A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking" When: 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday; 7 p.m. Sunday. Where: Point Loma Playhouse, 3035 Talbot Street, Point Loma. Tickets: $16-$18. Phone: (619) 800…
Twitter was still something birds did when the first La Jolla Playhouse POP Tour show, "Silent Edward," debuted in 1987. But the ideas behind that musical for young audiences "Â written by…
A spell of the fantastic suffuses the fable-like world of "The Illusion," Tony Kushner's lush (and funny) love letter to language and theater. "Fantastic," in the sense of enthusiastic prais…
When Divine Ngabire thinks back on her first impressions of the United States, one image in particular seems to stick with her: "The beautiful lights," she says, recalling that moment three …
More than 25 years after "Angels in America" premiered, that monumental saga of America's agonies amid the AIDS crisis remains playwright Tony Kushner's signature work. And yet it turns out …
You might know him as the casual-cool Apple fan in the "Get a Mac" ads. You might know him for his roles in more than 50 movies and TV shows, starting with his turn as a young sci-fi geek tu…
If "2.5 Minute Ride" is Shana Wride's first time performing a solo show, maybe she should try some other daunting debut pursuits as well: alligator wrestling, the running of the bulls, the r…
There's a specific " and sadly familiar " kind of tragedy at the heart of Nick Gandiello's play "The Blameless," which is about to receive its world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre. And ye…
One has six actors; the other is a solo piece. One centers on the playwright's mom; the other focuses mostly on her father. One had its world premiere in San Diego two decades ago; the other…
"Freaky Friday" will live to hit the stage another day. (Or week, actually.) La Jolla Playhouse announced today that it's adding one more extension to the run of the Disney-connected musi…
Hannah Logan is known to local audiences as an accomplished and versatile actor (and a San Diego Theatre Critics Circle award-winner for her 2014 turn in Ion Theatre's "Bug"). But she's a…