It's an irrefutable truth, a basic principle of human existence: Things just go better with ninjas. Not that "Vietgone" necessarily needs their help. Qui Nguyen's bursting-with-personality p…
Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" gets put through the modern-romcom mixmaster in "I Love You Because," the off-Broadway chamber musical about to hit the stage in Ocean Beach. The piece by…
You can hear the voice-acting talents of Herbert Siguenza in the current hit movie "Coco," and you've been able to witness his talents as a stage actor and writer for decades now via his exp…
In the 21 years since she made her Broadway debut in the musical "Steel Pier," Kristin Chenoweth has won both a Tony Award (for "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown") and an Emmy (for TV's "Pus…
You could argue that every week is theater week in San Diego " one of the most active theater towns in America, with a reputation that stretches to Broadway and beyond thanks to the new work…
Qui Nguyen wrote "Vietgone" more or less on a dare. From his own mother. Who, as it happens, the play is pretty much about. The kicker is, the playwright's mom has yet to see the piece. But …
England's King Henry VIII made for a notoriously nasty husband: If you were a wife of his, chances were one in three you'd get your head lopped off eventually. But in Kate Hennig's bracing, …
A decade ago last May, San Diego Musical Theatre launched with a production of "The Full Monty," the movie-based musical about steelworkers who moonlight as amateur strippers. The company ha…
The distinguished director-actor Maria Aitken might be a bigger name in Britain than she is on these shores. But if you saw what she did with the ingeniously amusing Hitchcock ode "The 39 St…
The biggest thing happening in San Diego theater at the moment " actually, the biggest in quite a few moments " isn't really part of San Diego theater at all. It's the touring production of …
Rewind your mind to a time when America was less a country than a concept, a wild surmise birthed in bloodshed and steeped in dreams of sweet freedom. And then consider the unlikely triumph …
San Diego " and the nation " meet your new Hamilton. Producers of "Hamilton," the smash-hit Broadway musical that opens a three-week touring engagement at the San Diego Civic Theatre tomorro…
Sometimes the biggest gifts in a work of live theater involve the seemingly smallest moments " a single memorable scene, a fleeting but hard-to-shake visual, a particularly startling perform…
The latest world-premiere musical at La Jolla Playhouse is about to make a quick dance to Broadway. "Summer: The Donna Summer Musical," which is still running at the Playhouse, has just been…
Di will have her day at La Jolla Playhouse. The theater announced today that the Princess Diana musical workshopped in New York last summer by Playhouse artistic director Christopher Ashley …
Teatro Máscara Mágica's holiday favorite "La Pastorela" was once San Diego's longest-running theater tradition. Until last year, when it wasn't " the result of a venue issue that force…
The lighting is subdued, the surprises are dialed back and the sound is toned down for the annual sensory-friendly version of "Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" at the Old Globe. …
Eight months after it opened in New York, the La Jolla Playhouse-launched musical "Come From Away" continues to go strong on Broadway. The latest evidence: The show, which had its world prem…
San Diego-area theaters may be serving up Scrooge x 2 this season, as both Old Town's Cygnet and Escondido's Welk host old Eb and his infernal humbugs. But in other ways this seems a notably…
It's entirely possible that no one ever died from disco, no matter how far they might've plunged off their platform shoes. But anyone feeling personally injured by the pounding beats and spe…
"What have you got to write about that's so important all the time?," one of Anne Frank's fellow refugees asks her a little dismissively in the stage version of her story. Now we know the an…
For those whose lives have not be roiled by autism, the events that unfold in the play "Falling" might prove startling and more than a little upsetting. For those whose daily routines more o…
Four new plays " including a world-premiere work from the writer of the button-pushing Broadway comedy "Hand to God" " will be part of the 2018-19 La Jolla Playhouse season, the theater anno…
Four actors are working their way through a tense scene in rehearsals for the play "Falling" when an unscripted visitor comes loping through the action. It's a small dog named Ireland, whose…
A little over a year after it premiered at La Jolla Playhouse, "Junk" has officially opened on Broadway " and the critics, while they like some of what they see, are hedging a bit on this pl…