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Think Peer Gynt – and I know that most people don’t – and what do you get? Ibsen, Norwegian, heavy, long, with music by Grieg. Now, throw out all of those conceptions and s…
The big question hanging over a stage adaptation of a beloved film fantasy is what happens to the piece when it’s transferred from one type of magic to another.
Millions of fans, inclu…
The moment that defines any staging of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING is Beatrice’s command in Scene 1, Act IV, when Benedict begs her to choose a service he can perform to prove his love: &ld…
Adrian Nobel is a splendid leader, able to lift a company to new levels of confident achievement, but he works best as a collaborator. Especially with Shakespeare.
His staging of KING LEAR f…
Prospero, after all, is only human. He’s spent 12 years exiled on an isolated island, perfecting his magic, driven by revenge fantasies, sure than he will eventually snare those who wr…
It might be said that an outsider’s perspective is the best way to get to know a place, a group of people. In fact, it might even be true that someone who might be from the margins of…
Robert Preston. There - got that out of the way. One can't think of Meredith Willson's "The Music Man" without at the same time thinking of Robert Preston, the late great showstopper who ori…
Mamma Mia!
May 31 - June 5
Broadway San Diego at the CivicBuy Tickets Here
Set to the soundtrack o...
There are three types of potential audience members for San Diego Musical Theatre’s production of A Chorus Line, now playing at the Lyceum Stage through June 12. Type 1 should love th…
She's given us Trolley Dances and Cabaret Dances, 25 years at UC San Diego and nearly 15 years directing San Diego Dance Theater. Her current company is one of the sharpest in years. If that…
Outside, the corn maybe as high as an elephant’s eye, but inside the cluttered old Weston mansion is an Oklahoma far from Rodgers and Hammerstein, lurching toward a climax that may pur…
Triad Productions has an admirable mission. The company of recent theatre graduates (mostly from San Diego State) aims to bring younger audiences into the theatre while at the same time pro…
The English dramatist Alan Ayckbourn has now written 75 plays! Not counting, it says here, the one-acts, revue turns and kids’ shows!
With the American premiere of his 74th play &ndash…
It’s not every day that the powers that be declare a performer to be a hit prior to opening night. But, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders proclaimed April 29 to be “Anna Deavere Smi…
For those of us lucky enough to have had one,
the treehouse brings to mind memories of childhood’s innocence. The treehouse
was a place that was all ours, a refuge, a hideaway in the s…
Nothing like ethnic for that warm family feeling, where the generations squabble and the changes wrench, right up to the group hug of togetherness at the finale. The Jews, the Irish, he Ital…
J. S. Bach—unlike his cosmopolitan, commercially successful
compatriot G. F. Handel—never wrote an opera. In the German Lutheran churches
and decorous princely households that Ba…
John Malashock's new show The Floating World is a cohesive collaboration with video artist Tara Knight. On view through April 23, the production includes gorgeous costumes by acclaimed desig…
"El cakeito-El cuarto nivel" (2011) by Jamex & ...
Lamb's Players have come up with a colorful treat for fans of adventure fantasy, particularly anthropomorphic works like "Animal Farm," "Watership Down" and "Rabbit, Run" (OK, just kidding &…
Just because you've never heard a percussion concerto does not
automatically mean they are mythical beasts like unicorns. To Dame Evelyn Glennie,
the internationally acclaimed Scottish percu…
There have been a lot of small emerging dance productions in town lately. YouTurn is the newest and most engaging. Three dance artists (and visual and musical artists) gathered at the 10th A…
Kate Weare and Monica Bill Barnes are cozy touring partners, often sharing stages at top New York venues and east coast dance festivals. For opening night of the Wonderland dance festival at…
Bobby pins? Check. Flowery headband? Check. White tutu and ribbons? Double check.The San Diego Civic Youth Ballet dancers are beginning dress rehearsals for perform...
San Diego Opera’s bustling production of Richard Strauss’s comic opera Der Rosenkavalier, which
opened Sunday (April 3) at Civic Theatre, captured its humor and burlesque in
spad…
