947 stories by "James Hebert"
Light. Balance. Tension. Harmony. Those help compose the litany of artistic principles the painter Georges Seurat recites as bookends to the musical "Sunday in the Park With George." Eleganc…
Fest closes this weekend; Family Fringe is today.
Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" is a story of people who manage to make a virtue of deprivation. So, in a way, is the tale of how a musical came to be made from the novel.
The Old Globe Theatre's upcoming production of the movie-based musical "October Sky" has been pulled into the orbit of a $20 million lawsuit brought by the man at the center of the show's re…
The Jimmy Buffett musical that's headed to La Jolla Playhouse next year now has an official title " and you will not be shocked to learn it involves a certain frosty beverage.
Toil and trouble don't simply bubble in the Old Globe's bracing new staging of "Macbeth": They detonate like a succession of grenades. Even the words of the play's famous witches come out da…
Before Jeff Augustin puts the first words of a play on the page, he sends a little song out into the universe. "It's always the same (melody). I don't know why. But it's as if I'm conjuring.…
The San Diego International Fringe Festival kicks off this week with some 90 shows that will unfold over the festival's two-week run, totaling more than 400 performances at 17 venues around …
Tickets for Steve Martin play available this Friday
Summing up the whole of world drama when you're an upstart theater company that's just gone pro? Nothing like starting small.
Even if you don't agree that disco is, in fact, the eighth deadly sin, you've got to admit it has done some unholy things in the name of music. (Two words: "Funky Town.") So it's satisfying …
The Old Globe Theatre-bred musical "Bright Star" is blinking out on Broadway. Lead producer Joey Parnes announced Tuesday that the bluegrass-laced show, created by the actor-writer-musician …
In "Lydia," a mystery woman with seemingly magical powers drops into a family home and utterly transforms the lives of those inside. As lyrical as Octavio Solis' play can be, though, "Mary P…
Hillcrest theater staging San Diego premiere of Octavio Solis play
Some 25,000 years ago, an advancing glacier carved out the terrain that would one day become New York City. After that, not a whole lot happened in Manhattan until Aug. 6, 2015, when "Hamilt…
Tour of smash-hit Broadway musical will hit town in 2017-18 season
The tragedy of "Macbeth" begins with the witches " those three "weird sisters" whose utterances foretell (or do they compel?) the title character's murderous rise to power. And any productio…
Hit musical about founding father set for Broadway's big party.
Some young theater companies burst onto the stage scene in a roil of raw ambition and energy. But Intrepid Theatre " as has become its style " did things a little differently. Seven years ag…
How and when did you first encounter Intrepid?
The Second City will make its first return to San Diego since 2014 this summer, when it brings its election-themed show "Free Speech! (While Supplies Last)" to La Jolla Playhouse.
The name Henrik Ibsen means a lot in the theater world; what it usually does not mean is "box-office gold." So David Ellenstein was more than a little surprised back in 2010 when his North C…
Musical-theater performers from CCA, SCPA punch tickets to New York for nationals.
Musical saga proves insightful and inspiring.
If streets have feelings (and egos), 41st and 43rd must be crying their asphalts off about now. The movie and musical "42nd Street" have long given that stretch of pavement at the heart of M…
