And you thought global warming was enough of a worry: Near the start of Miranda Rose Hall's big-hearted new play "The Hour of Great Mercy," a folksy radio host named Roger has a meltdown so …
Three years ago, San Diego Theatre Week launched with an idea modeled after the popular Restaurant Week: Offer special deals to bring people through the doors and, with luck, turn them into …
Advice columns. We all know how they go. Someone writes in, agonizing over a problem. Someone else replies with tips and admonitions and maybe a little pat on the head. Then " on to the next…
As the much-anticipated musical "Diana" nears its world premiere at San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse, director Christopher Ashley has had a chance to contemplate what things might be like for …
In the theater world, there's that magical phenomenon known as the "showmance" " a love affair that sparks when two people meet in a stage production. Of course, not all of those romances la…
As character names go, it's pretty tough to top the moniker Marvelous. And you won't get any argument from Cherene Snow, who plays the Zimbabwe-born American matriarch Marvelous Chinyaramwir…
Whatever else it accomplishes, Julia Cho's play "Aubergine" promises to give eggplant a good name. Or at least a better name than "eggplant." The more graceful term "aubergine" is the one th…
Sometimes there's a moment in a show that just begs to be anointed with that old cliche: "This is worth the price of the ticket by itself." And which moment is that in Lamb's Players Theatre…
Big airs and Broadway are destined for a major duet, with a just-announced stage musical whose creative team includes North County's own skateboard deity Tony Hawk. The show is based on the …
You may not know this about Isabella Rossellini, but she is big in Borneo. Actually, strike that: She is a bug in Borneo. Specifically: Ptomaphaginus isabellarossellini, a species of beetle …
Talk about a rare find: As a play that focuses closely on older women, Grace McLeod's "Herland" almost qualifies as a theatrical unicorn. What's more remarkable is that McLeod herself is jus…
There are three things in life that please Betty Buckley above all others. As it happens, cats don't make the cut. "The things I love most are music, theater and horses " not necessarily in …
San Diego's flagship theater " nationally renowned for its devotion to the works of Shakespeare " is rolling out a new professional training program aimed at keeping the Bard's legacy thrivi…
Like the hero of the megahit musical "Hamilton," Edred Utomi is young, scrappy and hungry " and now he has performed his way to the pinnacle of one of the biggest shows on the planet. Tonigh…
Lamb's Players Theatre has a knack for looking back: Five years ago, the company set a Guinness world record for nonstop live performance by staging a 100-hour reading of plays it had produc…
In its 34 years of staging contest-winning student works, the San Diego-based Playwrights Project had never before put up a fully produced musical for its annual Plays by Young Writers Festi…
If you thought last January's tour visit of the world-beating Broadway musical "Hamilton" was destined to steal the thunder of San Diego's theater year, our local stage scene stood ready and…
So you've roasted all the chestnuts, decked all the halls and whipped up enough figgy pudding to feed a legion of carolers. But if you haven't seen any holiday theater yet, there's still tim…
New plays by both national talents and enterprising local community members will all be part of the celebration when the sixth edition of the Old Globe's Powers New Voices Festival gets unde…
The holidays bring more seasonally themed staged productions to San Diego theaters than you can shake a candy cane at. And along with those shows come a parade of characters both naughty and…
Nearly every holiday season for the past 27 years, San Diego's Teatro Máscara Mágica has staged a fresh take on the Mexican Christmas tradition of the "Pastorela," a play about the bib…
In the first moments of "The Year to Come," a woman named Pam shambles onstage, oxygen tank in tow, to offer what seems some deeply considered advice: "Only look ahead." And if you trust her…
The five prime movers behind the new Tuyo Theatre are in the middle of trying to articulate the happy accidents and artistic affinities that brought them all together, when a single word see…
It's been 30 years now since "Always … Patsy Cline" was first produced, which means that the show now has been around as long as its famous country-music namesake was alive. That doesn't s…
As if diving into the lives of a big extended family over two decades and three generations weren't quite enough for Lindsey Ferrentino, the rising playwright's latest work poses an added de…