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There are easier places to get into the water than the boulder-strewn cove tucked just south of Pacific Beach Point. But this is playwright Mike Lew's favorite surf break " and anyway,…
King Hedley II: The name evokes nobility, history, heritage, a certain majesty. As the title of a play, it also hints at the sweeping sagas of William Shakespeare " the royal sto…
People who make musicals like to talk of the "I want" song " a crucial first-act number that lays bare the hero's overriding desire to find a better life, a higher purpose. In essen…
Here's to Herbert Siguenza for president. He can even keep wearing the dress. The playwright and actor, who portrays a cleverly meddlesome maid in his new play "Manifest Destinitis," may …
He's been a star of the biggest show on Broadway;Â now Leslie Odom Jr. will headline the biggest fund-raiser of the year at the Old Globe. The former "Hamilton" star (and 2016 Tony Award-w…
The Old Globe Theatre announced Monday that Steve Martin's world-premiere comedy "Meteor Shower" set an all-time box-office record in the theater's in-the-round performance space. (Rea…
Something awesome this way comes in Jiehae Park's "peerless": college acceptance letters that fall from the sky. (But you might not want to know what the kids in this darkly comic riff on "M…
Steve Martin's "Meteor Shower"Â turned out to be a gift from the heavens for the Old Globe: The play, which closed Sunday, has set an all-time sales record for the theater's second perform…
San Diego Musical Theatre is rolling out a 2017 season that includes three regional-premiere musicals, two world-premiere projects and the company's first foray into producing in two thea…
It's tempting to say Cashae Monya has come full circle by joining the cast of the world-premiere La Jolla Playhouse musical "Miss You Like Hell." But Monya probably wouldn't strike you as so…
If the compulsion to write plays qualifies as a medical condition, please keep any cure far, far away from Herbert Siguenza.
It's fitting (for reasons beyond the title) that the people in "The Cocktail Hour" exist in a more or less pickled state.
A hearing had been scheduled for Monday in Los Angeles on Homer H. Hickam Jr.'s request that he be erased from the Old Globe musical "October Sky" " a show whose main character is Hickam him…
hen Homer H. Hickam Jr. and his friends looked to the sky with a gleam in their eyes and a few homemade rockets in their kit bags back in the 1950s, they weren't necessarily trying to change…
La Jolla Playhouse audiences will get a look at Donald Trump through the eyes of another provocative (and controversial) public figure, as the theater presents a special engagement of Mike D…
The Old Globe will open its 2017 summer season with one of the most beloved (and produced) shows in the musical-theater canon. The Balboa Park theater is announcing today that it will stage …
A lot of what you need to know about Jiehae Park's "peerless" might be summed up by the name originally bestowed on the play: "Untitled High School Macbeth."
After an 11-year Broadway run, the La Jolla Playhouse-born musical "Jersey Boys" is about to see its final season.
Is "Sweet Charity" a (head) trip back to the swingin' 1960s? You bet your sweet bippy, as they used to say on a certain vintage TV show.
A piece that premiered in La Jolla Playhouse's 2015 Without Walls Festival will get its own showcase as the theater's next stand-alone WoW production. The theater has announced that Keith A.…
When Mike Lew touched down at college after graduating from La Jolla High in 1999, he also arrived at a revelation: Theater was not so very different from the science disciplines he'd been s…
The distinguished San Diego actor-director Rosina Reynolds stages NCRT's revival of the comedy of manners by that bard of upper-crusty Yanks, A.R. Gurney.
hen "The Lion King" rolls into the San Diego Civic Theatre next week for the hit Disney show's first local visit since 2009, it'll be arriving with a favorite son. (And no, we're not talking…
Lamb's Players Theatre is rolling out a lineup of new plays and returning favorites for the company's 2017 season at its home theater in Coronado.
You almost want to believe the Emcee in "Cabaret" when he chirps, "We have no troubles here." Almost.
