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Summer is the season for musicals, and San Diego's theater outlook doesn't disappoint, with a full slate of song-filled shows. But plenty of promising nonmusical plays are on the way, too, i…
It's no secret that two of the top graduate theater programs in the country are situated here in San Diego. But a new survey from The Hollywood Reporter reaffirms not just the national but t…
Sent onstage with those famous words, "You're going out there a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!," the upstart Peggy Sawyer gets her big Broadway break in what might be the ult…
Old Globe stages worthy West Coast premiere of fact-based play.
The law wasn't all that interested in finding out who killed the film director William Desmond Taylor back in 1922. Neither, in a way, is the new La Jolla Playhouse show about the notorious …
There's a line the sushi chef Koji utters in "tokyo fish story" that strives to capture the fleeting achievement of his culinary art."A glistening, edible moment," Koji calls his creations, …
Nearly a dozen San Diego County arts and culture groups have earned grants in the latest round of funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA awarded a total of $258,000 to the…
History joined hands with the living, breathing present at the Old Globe on Saturday evening, as the theater welcomed the family of a felled world leader who's depicted in the play "Camp Dav…
One of San Diego's most esteemed and seasoned stage actors will be joining nine others from around the nation " including a Tony Award winner " in a highly selective fellowship program this …
As the son of a Baptist preacher, Ruff Yeager was raised with vocal harmonies in his bones. "It's the music of my upbringing " this style of music," says Yeager, who is directing "Woody Guth…
"Bright Star," the Steve Martin/Edie Brickell that had its world premiere at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, has just won the Outer Critics Circle Award as best new Broadway musical. The blue…
Musical theater has demonstrated it can stretch to accommodate all kinds of difficult subjects. Still, it's not terribly often that a small company such as San Diego's Diversionary Theatre w…
The accomplished playwright, performer and monologist Anna Deavere Smith is returning to San Diego in June for a one-night presentation of her latest work, the Old Globe Theatre has announce…
The big shocker out of this morning's Tony Awards nominations: A few other shows besides "Hamilton" also made it into the field. But the blockbuster hip-hop musical about the founding father…
World-premiere play at Lamb's has memorable moments, but static staging stymies some drama
The Old Globe's just-announced 2016-17 season may boast two world premieres and the return of a huge entertainment name who's becoming something like the theater's unofficial resident playwr…
Five brand-new works by graduate students in the University of California San Diego's renowned playwriting program will unfold in the latest Wagner New Play Festival " the first since the be…
Wayne Lemon's caustic seriocomedy "Jesus Hates Me," now getting a committed if over-the-top local premiere at Ion Theatre, is shot through with a sense of the oppressive and judgmental, whet…
As the Globe gets ready to stage Lawrence Wright's fact-based play "Camp David" (which begins performances May 13), artistic director Barry Edelstein sits down for a chat with the Pulitzer P…
The 2016 New York theater-awards season has officially kicked off with today's announcement of nominations for the Drama League Awards. And while it's looking like an uncharacteristically of…
Gina Gionfriddo's latest play to hit San Diego takes its name from a hard-charging song by Hole called "Use Once and Destroy," on which Courtney Love sings: "Take your rapture blister burns …
Broadway musical lands 2016 prize in drama
Free Shakespeare events set for next Saturday in Balboa Park
In the certifiably weird world of quantum physics, there's a maxim that says nothing actually happens until someone is there to observe it. (And yes, I'm grossly oversimplifying here; physic…
Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey was chatting with her dad at the family farmhouse south of Stockholm, Sweden, one day when he happened to mention that, by the way, he had once dined with Marlene…
