947 stories by "James Hebert"
In theater, there's timeliness, and then there's flat-out weird synchronicity. Witness, in the latter category, San Diego Rep's blistering production of the Ayad Akhtar play "Disgraced," whi…
In a bid to clear the air over the dismissals of two popular San Diego Junior Theatre staffers, the organization's board has issued a more detailed statement on the September firings. …
If trick-or-treating's not your thing, and the average haunted house doesn't offer quite enough of a narrative arc, San Diego-area theaters might have just the finely staged frights you need…
At a pivotal moment in "Equivocation," a key figure in the Bill Cain play comes up with a succinct way to describe theater: "It's not a way, to lie, you know. It's a way of telling …
Just about every musical-theater project is a long journey. Not quite so many are about one. But La Jolla Playhouse's much-buzzed "Miss You Like Hell" is actually rooted in two: a mother …
This moment in history has become so saturated with electoral angst that it can start to seem as if everything is somehow about the presidential contest: sports events, fashion choices, poss…
It'll be a green-peat at the Globe: The theater has just confirmed that J. Bernard Calloway will again play the lead role in the holiday favorite "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"…
When it debuted in 1950, the pioneering TV variety program "Your Show of Shows" became such a sensation that Americans soon felt they knew the performers who crossed their tiny black-and-whi…
The Old Globe's touring "Globe for All" program could just about qualify as an Olympic event: Putting up a play in a quick succession of often far-flung locations requires speed, fl…
Seat belts are not standard equipment at the Lyceum Space, where San Diego Rep is about to stage the San Diego premiere of "Disgraced." But the way director Michael Arabian and his cast talk…
The cast and venues have just been announced for the 2016 edition of "Globe for All," the Old Globe Theatre's touring program that takes Shakespeare into diverse corners of the community. No…
For the people in August Wilson's "King Hedley II," life arrives in bursts "Â of violence, of regret, of (ever so briefly) hope. So does the play, now receiving a hard-hitting revival at C…
The dreams are big but the obstacles always seem a little bigger in "Seven Guitars," the August Wilson drama that just opened in a potent, sharply acted revival at Cygnet Theatre. And while …
La Jolla Playhouse has just announced the 2017 edition of its Performance Outreach Program tour "Â and this latest world-premiere POP play for young audiences will be staged by a top San D…
Deep into his arresting and affecting solo piece "The Lion," Benjamin Scheuer is nearly levitating from a chair on the Old Globe's White Theatre stage, as he bashes out thick and furious …
The San Diego-based Playwrights Project has just announced the contest-winning playwrights whose works will be staged early next year at the annual Plays by Young Writers festival. The young…
William Shakespeare was not one to mince words. Or maybe he was " at least in the sense of carving them and parsing them and filleting them into just the right form for the story an…
If you're among those dreaming that The Donald will soon go the way of the dodo, Mike Daisey is here with your wake-up call. And it's not a jolly one. The playwright-performer, whose combust…
Justin Huertas is a theater artist who seems pretty comfortable in his own skin. Which, by the way, is not scaly and reptilian. It's true that the title hero Huertas plays in his rock mus…
It's a big week for one-man shows in San Diego, with two debuting at La Jolla Playhouse alone. (And that's not even counting the Old Globe's "The Lion," another one-man piece which is now in…
Bickering, criticizing, second-guessing, sabotaging: Hey, that's what friends are for. The three longtime pals in Yasmina Reza's "Art," now getting a cuttingly funny revival at Intrepid Thea…
"I slept and was ashamed. I was quiet, I was tamed. / Then they came and stayed and helped me heal inside. / And though I had to learn once more to be a lion without a roar / It's not …
This weekend, Coronado Playhouse is making its production of "Seussical The Musical" extra-welcoming for fans whose opportunities to see plays can sometimes be limited. The theater is off…
Cloistered away from the unmannered clamor of downtown crowds and traffic, three men sit in elegant repose on the stage of the Horton Grand Theatre, sipping tea and talking (probably) Proust…
It's been a long road for Leo in "4000 Miles," a play whose title refers (in part) to a cross-country bike ride that put this free-spirited young wanderer in the path of immense tragedy. His…
