A painting isn't passive. It's not static or still. A painting, a good one, pulses and vibrates and bursts with life. That's how Mark Rothko saw things, anyway: To the celebrated abstract ex…
With two world-premiere musicals and three world-premiere plays, the Old Globe is going big on brand-new work for its just-announced 2018-19 season. And it's also going big when it comes to …
The 2018 Tony Awards nominations were announced this morning, and in what has long since become an annual occurrence, shows that originated in San Diego were among the picks for the Broadway…
It takes sacrifice, ambition, a little luck and a ton of raw talent to scale the heights of Broadway. It does not necessarily take a motto. But Brian Stokes Mitchell has one of those, too " …
Dropped into the middle of "My Shot," the rousing song from the hit musical "Hamilton" that lays out the hero's dreams and ambitions, is an odd little line that might nudge the memory: "You'…
New York critics have some things to say about the La Jolla Playhouse-bred musical "Summer: The Donna Summer Musical," whose Broadway production opened Monday. And few of those things appear…
What do you give a guy for his 454th birthday? A party is always good, which is what the Old Globe Theatre has in mind for tomorrow (April 21) as it pays tribute to that house playwright, th…
When last seen in San Diego, Edred Utomi was rocking a bright-red wig and an ungainly, podlike costume as a somewhat anonymous ensemble member in "Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas!…
SDSU's School of Theatre, Television and Film is reviving "Anna in the Tropics," Nilo Cruz's lyrical but seldom-staged 2003 Pulitzer winner, set in a Florida cigar factory circa 1929. CJ Kei…
It's not easy making an arranged marriage fly " between people, or between paired relationships in a play. The course of Anna Ziegler's probing world-premiere work "The Wanderers," though, w…
A quick look at some highlights from the coming month's performing-arts openings in the San Diego region: Soul Doctor Through April 22. Lyceum Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza, downtown. 619.544.100…
The last time the fast-rising playwright Anna Ziegler was at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, it was with "The Last Match," the story of an intense rivalry between two top tennis pros. Now she…
An actor shouting "Line!" is normally about the last thing you want to hear during a play. But in "Men on Boats," it's not a desperate request for what to say next: It's a character's plea f…
Be warned: Once you see "Beachtown," it may forever ruin how you view run-of-the-mill municipal meetings " what with their distinct lack of entertaining politicians, fired-up citizens and fr…
A work by the longtime head of the University of California San Diego's graduate playwriting program will receive its world premiere next month as the next project in La Jolla Playhouse's Wi…
The curtain is rising on new leadership at Broadway/San Diego, which has announced that Vanessa Y. Davis is now general manager of the local touring-show presenter. Davis succeeds Joe Kobryn…
When you hear Nadia Guevara describe herself as "a hippie to the core," and talk of how her "entire adult life has been a series of happy accidents," you might be tempted to conclude this eb…
For the characters at its center, "American Mariachi" is a story of people defying bias and cultural expectations in pursuit of a dream. For the five women portraying those characters, it ha…
There's all sorts of political and personal intrigue coursing through "King Charles III," Mike Bartlett's boldly imaginative, blank-verse play about the near future in Great Britain. Prince …
"Send in the clowns," goes the title line from the most famous song in "A Little Night Music." And when Cygnet Theatre first staged the show a decade ago, artistic director Sean Murray proba…
Michael S. Rosenberg is stepping down as managing director of La Jolla Playhouse to take on the same job title at the McCarter Theatre Center in New Jersey, the Playhouse announced Tuesday. …
If you could diagram the intertwined lives of the people in Steven Dietz's inspired "This Random World," it might look like one of those M.C. Escher drawings where lines somehow connect with…
It's true that "Beachtown," the audience-interactive work that has its world premiere at San Diego Rep next month, is what could be called an "immersive" work of theater. That doesn't mean t…
The plays of Anton Chekhov form a pillar of world drama, second maybe only to the works of mighty Shakespeare in importance and influence. But the thing about pillars is, they're a little ha…
Bekah Brunstetter is not a big fan of turbulence. At least of the literal kind. The last time the playwright was in San Diego, for the Old Globe's 2013 production of her dark comedy "Be a Go…