947 stories by "James Hebert"
Jon Lonoff's 2003 off-Broadway comedy centers on Maureen, a dental hygienist and woman of substance who finds herself on a blind date with a highly unfiltered guy named Joe.
Even for a play about parallel universes, "Constellations" bears some striking parallels to the lives of the people who are putting up its West Coast premiere at the Old Globe Theatre.
The Old Globe's world-premiere musical "Rain," with a rich and distinctively textured score by Michael John LaChiusa, stays faithful to writer W. Somerset Maugham's idea of the fine (and pot…
In 1985, the musical adaptation of Mark Twain's epic "Huckleberry Finn" saga became the first show to go from La Jolla Playhouse to Broadway. Now "Big River" comes home again (or close to it…
Check out our guide to two very different musicals with the same name.
A Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse returnee and several top local actors are part of the just-announced cast for the theater's world-premiere play "Hollywood." The season-opening piece,…
A name like "Rain" can come off as deeply metaphorical, stirring ideas of stormy emotions, looming danger, maybe the release of pent-up longings and passions. And then there's that matter of…
The Old Globe Theatre has had its head in the heavens lately, what with the world premiere of Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's "Bright Star" (which just opened on Broadway) and upcoming prod…
A year and a half after its world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre, the Steve Martin/Edie Brickell musical "Bright Star" rises on Broadway tonight. The show, which debuted at the Globe in t…
John Leguizamo is just about unstoppable. Also, at this moment anyway, just about unintelligible.The perpetually kinetic performer-playwright is calling from New York with a request to push …
New Village Arts Theatre is taking cues from this very lively election year to roll out a season lineup it's billing as "The American Experience." The 2016-17 season, the Carlsbad company's …
At the moviehouse, shouting lines at the screen is just part of the "Rocky Horror" experience. In live theater, "Rocky" talks back " comically, provocatively and with a whole lot of fab atti…
First things first: Don't get caught in the wrong "Rain." This week, the Old Globe Theatre begins performances of its world-premiere musical by that name. But over at the Balboa Theatre, ano…
John Leguizamo's new La Jolla Playhouse solo show is called "Latin History for Dummies," and it's a mashup of history, comedy and its creator's singular strain of playful provocation. The wo…
Our spring theater picks start off with a new musical that seems tailor-made for these El Niño-ized times, and wrap with a couple of sunny, song-filled shows that will take us right to th…
Eden Espinosa is a New Yorker now, but the singer-actor and Broadway veteran grew up as a Southern California gal. In all her many childhood trips from the family home in Anaheim to San Dieg…
If you've witnessed Bryan Barbarin onstage in one of the two dozen or so shows he has done at Lamb's Players and other local companies, you won't soon forget his rich, resonant, rattle-the-h…
The Old Globe Theatre is announcing it has received a $5 million gift from Qualcomm co-founder Andrew Viterbi to support the theater's artistic mission. The donation creates the Erna Finci V…
The Old Globe Theatre's local premiere of the Nick Payne play "Constellations" will be populated by a pair of stars from Broadway and London's West End. The Globe has announced that Christia…
A long, lightless silence pierced by eerie, distant echoes: That's how Lamb's Players Theatre's "The Miracle Worker" grippingly (and fittingly) begins. And a luminous moment of insight " as …
The touring show that hits the San Diego Civic Theatre this week is one example of the enduring fascination with and affection for the "Oz" saga. The musical, which premiered on London's Wes…
Cygnet Theatre artistic director Sean Murray directs and stars in "The Rocky Horror Show," a musical that looms large in his theatrical history.
InnerMission rolls out the San Diego premiere of Theresa Rebeck's biting comedy (whose 2011 Broadway production starred the late Alan Rickman) about four aspiring novelists who sign up for a…
Tonight Show
The magic of farce usually resides in low deeds done at high speeds, complemented by confused identities and a whole lot of brutally abused doors. Georges Feydeau's "Now You See It" has some…
