A late, great American playwright known best for his epic chronicles of the African-American experience will be celebrated March 30 with a day of free readings, panel discussions and more. I…
A little bit of Berlin is about to break out in Coronado, with the latest revival of the Kander & Ebb classic "Cabaret."
For an "internationally ignored song stylist," the one and only Hedwig Robinson is flirting awfully close to fame these days. (And Hedwig does love to flirt.) The wisecracking, gender-fluid …
For an "internationally ignored song stylist," the one and only Hedwig Robinson is flirting awfully close to fame these days. (And Hedwig does love to flirt.)
You can see how this thing got started: Somebody noticed that "chaps" is both a veddy British word for "fellows" and a term for the leggings favored by cowpokes. So, presto!
Step into Jesse J. Perez's office at the University of San Diego and the first thing you spy might be the bobblehead dolls of Darth Vader and company lined up on a shelf.
British humor meets twangy country tunes in "Chaps!," a musical comedy about a bunch of BBC types who find themselves posing as singing cowboys for a 1944 radio broadcast.
Who doesn't love an "existential slasher comedy" as told through a feminist lens? The SDSU School of Theatre, Television, and Film is teaming with Moxie Theatre to stage this twist on urban …
Musical theater is rich with memorable and stirring sentiments: "No day but today." "I could have danced all night." "There's a place for us." And, of course: "Supreme executive power derive…
Musical theater is rich with memorable and stirring sentiments: "No day but today." "I could have danced all night."
The world as it was " the world of 1985, when "Angels of America" begins " could hardly have imagined the news of 2019: Last week, it was announced that for the second time in history, a per…
The world as it was " the world of 1985, when "Angels of America" begins " could hardly have imagined the news of 2019: Last week, it was announced that for the second time in history, a per…
As San Diego Repertory Theatre announces its 2019-20 season " the company's 44th " the downtown institution also is tweaking its mission statement, putting extra emphasis on such words on "i…
As San Diego Repertory Theatre announces its 2019-20 season " the company's 44th " the downtown institution also is tweaking its mission statement, putting extra emphasis on such words on "i…
"Sometimes people leave you / Halfway through the wood." " "No One is Alone," from "Into the Woods" In the fall of 1986, the musical "Into the Woods" had its world premiere at San Diego's Ol…
If you're feeling protective of the British royal family, prepare to clutch your pearls. (If you're a member of the British royal family, have someone clutch them for you.) The world-premier…
Princess Diana died nearly 22 years ago, and yet in some sense she has never left: Search her name online and you'll get a daily stream of "news" stories with such headlines as "Did Princess…
Heartbreaking, thought-provoking, brilliantly unique: Those are some of the descriptions that come to Sean Murray's mind when he talks about "Angels in America," the playwright Tony Kushner'…
The Broadway musical "Aladdin" may trace its DNA to the Disney movie universe, but this show's beating heart resides in a mystical desert city of rare fortunes, exotic entertainments and a s…
North Coast Rep stages the West Coast premiere of "Gabriel," Moira Buffini's wartime drama about a mystery man who washes up on a Nazi-occupied British isle in 1943; the play chronicles what…
There's something Casey Nicholaw would like to say about "Aladdin," and it may come as no surprise: This musical is not "A Long Day's Journey Into Night." "It's just extravagant; it's a good…
It can be hard now to separate memories of Princess Diana's life from the sad story of her passing, at age 36 in a 1997 Paris car accident. Even the song most associated with the much-loved …
Coursing through Hershey Felder's solo stage exploration of the life and legacy of Beethoven is an odd little mystery " one involving the great composer's bones, which were dug up in the nam…
If you're a San Diego-based fan of Broadway's new wave of musicals, it's a good bet you will be found at the Civic Theatre come next winter. That's when the hit show "Dear Evan Hansen" " whi…
A pair of shows staged in 2018 by the Old Globe and Lamb's Players Theatre shared top honors at the 17th annual Craig Noel Awards on Monday night. The Globe production of the play "A Thousan…