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The characters in Theresa Rebeck's "Seminar," now getting a razor-sharp San Diego premiere at InnerMission Productions under Kym Pappas' direction, seem to concur with the idea of writing as…
Beth Henley is still best-known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Crimes of the Heart," a play that dates clear back to 1978.
As San Diego Rep celebrates its 40th birthday this year, it's revisiting a work that looms large in the life story of the theater, which has long since become one of the region's biggest and…
Two prominent Old Globe returnees (including a familiar face from both television and the stage) will be part of the just-announced cast of the Old Globe Theatre's "Camp David," which begins…
'Bright Star,' now on Broadway, gets late-night spotlight
The long-awaited San Diego visit by the First Folio, the 17th-century volume that introduced Shakespeare's collected works to the world, is now barely three months away. And the Old Globe Th…
2017 tour stop announced for hit musical that's currently at Civic Theatre.
Before Broadway stardom and a Tony Award and a thriving TV and movie career, BD Wong was a young New York actor working to earn his union card by doing a traveling play for young people. Som…
The French just have a way with farce " and so does North Coast Rep, which has staged some memorably over-the-top examples of the form.
Actor-writer returns to La Jolla in April with new piece.
Like the staid traditions the poor milkman Tevye celebrates (and debates), "Fiddler on the Roof" feels as though it's been with us since the beginning of time.
The "Book" is back " and if you haven't yet been entertained/dazed/scandalized by this raunchy scriptural satire, now might be the time. Almost two years after its first tour visit to San Di…
First-time project kicks off next week with discounts, special events
La Jolla-bred musical will land in NYC in 2017 after D.C., Toronto stops.
But San Diego-bred show has left lasting legacy in musical theater.
Technically, it's a three-act play. For audiences and actors, though, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" goes all 15 brutal, knock-down rounds. That is emphatically, dramatically and pretty t…
Two weekend events tie in with verse-centric play 'The Metromaniacs"
Local stage artists weigh in on the status of companies and plays that explore the black experience
At the risk of telling a story so sweet it'll make your teeth throb, let's acknowledge a few dangerously adorable truths about the Old Globe's production of "The Last Match." First, two of t…
You wouldn't call "Guards at the Taj" bloodless, exactly " even without the puddles of crimson liquid the actors slosh and slip around in about halfway through Rajiv Joseph's play. But for m…
There are a few fresh twists to La Jolla Playhouse's DNA New Work Series, whose 2016 edition (kicking off Feb. 18) is the fourth go-round for this showcase of promising plays in development.
Intrepid's 'Quality of Life' joins Playhouse show among big winners at ceremony honoring local theater.
It might be time the vice squad paid a little visit to the Old Globe: The place is crawling with people getting openly high on rhymes. Not just actors, either (what would you expect from the…
San Diego Musical Theatre revives affecting (though overambitious) musical in style.
"Fiddler on the Roof" is enjoying a hit revival on Broadway just now (with University of California San Diego grad Danny Burstein as its star). But the Welk Resorts Theatre version should be…
