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ernadette Peters knows a little something about symphonies. Bernadette knows Broadway, too. Those two paths converge this weekend as she performs with conductor Matthew Garbutt and the San D…
A longtime leader and guiding force at the Old Globe Theatre is departing after 13 years, the Balboa Park institution announced Monday. Michael G. Murphy, the theater's managing director, is…
One of the simple but profound pleasures of a good jukebox musical is the way it rewinds your mind to a moment when a now-treasured song was heard for the first time. And when it comes to Ca…
When the wind comes sweepin' down the plain (to borrow from a signature lyric) in the latest revival of "Oklahoma!," it won't have too far to blow: New Village Arts' performance space is a m…
The Old Globe Theatre has signed up a cast of Broadway veterans (and some San Diego-based actors) for the West Coast premiere of the movie-based musical "October Sky." The show's creative te…
It might seem a little cruel to tout a stage show whose entire run has long since sold out. But look at the bright side: If you can't see Onstage Playhouse's "Buddy " The Buddy Holly Story,"…
Straight outta Chicago, those improv impresarios in The Second City comedy troupe are back at La Jolla Playhouse with another new show. This time, the laughs zero in on the coming election i…
f all the songs in "Beautiful," the jukebox-musical tribute to the singer-songwriter Carole King, the words to one in particular have been getting to Abby Mueller lately. Over the phone from…
Pascale Armand, Kristen Connolly join lineup of stage and screen names.
Yes, "Gypsy" gives top billing to a burlesque bombshell, and not to her spectacularly pushy parent. But Mama Rose knows what it's really all about. And so will you, after witnessing Linda Li…
In theater, it's a rare blessing for actors to have the luxury of the playwright's company in the rehearsal room every day. Of course, "Sometimes they have the luxury of the playwright being…
OnStage fires up the perennially popular 1989 jukebox musical, with Noah Zuniga-Williams starring as the bespectacled rock pioneer who churned out such enduring classics as "Peggy Sue," "Tha…
The La Jolla Playhouse-bred musical "Come From Away" has confirmed its Broadway cast " and two San Diego-based actors are part of it.
A peek at our chat with the playwright as he preps 'Meteor Shower' at the Old Globe.
Last week's big San Diego Pride celebrations may have given way to this week's Comic-Con onslaught, but a trio of still-running plays continue to explore and pay tribute to the LGBT experien…
One of the most beloved family-friendly sagas in musical theater takes to the stage " and the air " this week as Moonlight rolls out "Peter Pan," the company's second summer production.
In the spring of 1961, as the civil rights movement heated up, Americans of diverse races and backgrounds boarded buses bound for the Deep South in a bold show of protest against segregation…
There's enough love gone wrong and life gone haywire and family gone around the bend in Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" to fill several novels, or (alternatively) a single country song…
Musical ode to Harlem Renaissance hits the stage for latest revival.
Steve Martin may not be appearing in his world-premiere play "Meteor Shower" at the Old Globe (unless it's in an uncredited role as one of the meteors), but he soon will be taking the Globe …
There's nothing toothless about "Ruthless! The Musical," coming up next at Moxie Theatre. The 1992 musical spoof by Joel Paley and Marvin Laird has some wicked fun with everything from Broad…
From the moment Cygnet Theatre moved into its present digs eight years ago, the Old Town company has been big on Stephen Sondheim.But never before has Cygnet done a production of Sondheim (o…
Both an ode to the art of storytelling and a probing, potent example of it, Jeff Augustin's fiercely lyrical "The Last Tiger in Haiti" haunts like the mythical figure of its title.
Baseball all-stars don't get much starrier than Ted Williams: The late San Diego native and prodigious hitter still holds or shares seven single-game and career records in Major League Baseb…
The Old Globe is fast becoming the official regional branch office for Steve Martin's playwriting exploits. So it just kind of makes sense for the writer-musician-comic to bring in a star of…
