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Performances taking the stage this July in San Diego include Dr. Seuss's The Lorax, Disney's Newsies, Legally Blonde the Musical and On Your Feet!
"All the world's a stage," as Shakespeare never said in "The Tempest." That much-quoted line actually is from "As You Like It," but it would fit nicely into the Bard's more fantasy-drenched …
As it gets set to launch its sixth edition, San Diego's sprawling celebration of unorthodox performance might be in danger of an identity crisis. After all, what happens when a fringe festiv…
A musical with sweet vintage tunes, summer love, steamy Mediterranean nights, some baby-mama drama and a character of random Australian extraction? Hey, let's call it "Greece!" (Or is that n…
In a lifetime spent onstage and on-screen, Kate Burton has done 14 Broadway shows, dozens of movies and TV series and, somewhere in there, plenty of Shakespeare as well. But until now, she h…
La Jolla Playhouse's latest resident theater company is a troupe whose work on small stages around San Diego has had some outsize impact over the past three years. The Playhouse has announce…
Shows and artists with links to San Diego weren't quite so prominent at last night's Tony Awards as they have been in past years. But there were a few to be found. San Diego-connected nomine…
There might be a heavy favorite or two among hopefuls for tonight's Tony Awards, the annual Broadway theater honors. But only one 2018 honoree is guaranteed to take everyone else to the clea…
"School of Rock": When: Opens June 13. 7 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday; 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday; 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 1 and 6 p.m. Sunday. Through June 17. Where: San Diego Civic Theatre, 11…
It seems entirely right for a musical that's set amid the splendors of a Mediterranean island to be staged outdoors. Or alfresco, to honor the Italian title of this Greece-set show whose sco…
There's a line from Anita Bryant's best-known song that goes: Like a big red rose made of paper / There isn't any sweetness in your heart. "Paper Roses" doesn't appear in "The Loneliest Girl…
The Old Globe comedy "Native Gardens" showcases some of the most conspicuous botanically centered aggression since that overgrown blossom started snacking on the help in "Little Shop of Horr…
Sometimes, a squirrel is just a squirrel. And sometimes, a play called "The Squirrels" is about just what it sounds as if it's about. That is the case, insists the playwright Robert Askins "…
Jimmy Buffett's Broadway party is about to wind down: The singer-songwriter's musical "Escape to Margaritaville," which had its world premiere at San Diego's own La Jolla Playhouse last year…
North Coast Rep is staging the West Coast premiere of Florian Zeller's time-bending, mystery-laced play "The Father," about an older man whose faltering grip on memory shakes up his life and…
A decade ago, Kerry Meads fell fast for "Falling Slowly," and for the bittersweet film musical that birthed the song. "I fell in love with the movie when it first came out," the director and…
It was a case of the upstart scoring an upset in 2004 when the scrappy, happily profane "Avenue Q" snagged the coveted Tony Award for best musical, sweeping away the witches of "Wicked." Fou…
Opera remains intimidating and maybe impenetrable for plenty of people, and so if the celebrated baritone Nathan Gunn's new stage memoir accomplishes nothing else, it still could help make t…
It's just four days more until the show that brought us "One Day More" and other beloved numbers lands in San Diego again. "Les Misérables," the epic musical based on Victor Hugo's 1862 nov…
If "Broadway" and "Audra" don't quite make a perfect rhyme, it's not for lack of trying: So closely identified is Audra McDonald with the biggest stage in American theater that it can seem a…
A bridge is usually the province of people in motion, but for the main character in the quietly probing and often surprising new play "The Wind and the Breeze," it's a place of repose and ev…
A sun that's spun from loops of wire arcs across the Afghan sky, over silhouetted mountains fashioned from fencing and scraps of fabric. The visuals in "A Thousand Splendid Suns" are all the…
In the words of the Clash " a rock band, yes, but one that knew a little about rap: "Should I stay or should I go?" That's the pressing question (or one of them) at the center of "The Wind a…
"The King and I" The onetime San Diego theater maverick Bartlett Sher won a Tony Award in 2008 for the first Broadway revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's "South Pacific." Now he has directed …
The artistic leader of San Diego's LBGT-focused Diversionary Theatre and a prominent local Filipino American playwright are among the 2018 recipients of the San Diego Foundation's Creative C…
