79 stories by "Bill Eadie"
In the end, though, Mr. Pinkham and his castmates are weighed down by an overstuffed story.
Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes wrote a sweet, street-smart, and somewhat sentimental book for the musical In the Heights, so naturally there is considerable interest in her book for the La Jolla Pl…
It's a sturdy, entertaining, mystery set in the heyday of silent filmmaking and in the early days of the Hays Code, which limited how commercial filmmakers would tell their stories
Ms. Cho turns her attention to a conversation in which one person ostensibly refuses to communicate. It's a touchy, timely, potentially high-stakes subject, and were it not for a thoughtful …
Starting at the top, we have Robert Lopez, who is the youngest person to have achieved EGOT status—that is, he's won at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award. And spouse Kristen And…
Falsettoland meets Spelling Bee. Think of the possibilities. Can't? Cat got your tongue? Then you might have some idea of the unmitigated disaster that is Little Miss Sunshine, playing throu…
There's classic source material from the author of Les Misérables, music and lyrics by two current kings of Broadway, a book by a noted playwright, an excellent production by cast and creat…
... it uses powerful and poetic language and visual symbolism to show a black boxer's struggle to find his power by overcoming a myriad of expectations from the audiences he helped to creat…
Bright Star expertly wears its heart on its sleeve, and as long as you're willing to take it on its own terms you'll be won over.
Sheri Wilner's play, about a high school staging of The Crucible in a conservative Missouri town, tries to be fair to all sides of the conversation—and in doing so diminishes its coherence.
These are the dog days of summer, and the Old Globe is marking the occasion by performing not-too-taxing Shakespeare in the pleasant outdoors, where the human performers are almost upstaged …
In short, productions of Into the Woods can get bogged down in details of the various fairy tales and relationships that become mashed up while the characters are "in the woods." Not here.
[Barry Edelstein's] brought key elements of the New York model to the Old Globe's long-running Summer Shakespeare Festival, and if his production of Othello is any indication, that model sho…
Is it possible to write a successful musical where there's almost no character arc for the leading couple? If you answered no to that question, you might find that Dog and Pony, a world prem…
San Diego's two largest theatre companies, the La Jolla Playhouse and the Old Globe, recently hosted major openings within days of each other. Turns out that both plays were about the variet…
The Globe's current production, Laura Marks' Bethany, deals with homelessness, particularly among women.
Side Show will probably always have a cult popularity, but now the rest of us can better see what the fuss was about.
e late Jeff Buckley provides the music. The resulting mash-up is surprisingly effective and contemporary.
The problem, of course, with Sideways is the movie.
What is it about summer that we're willing to lock ourselves up in the dark and watch people try to get away with murder?
If you can make it to San Diego before the end of September, make it a priority to see one or more of these absolutely first-rate productions.
Hope and hopelessness engage in an unfair debate in the Old Globe's revival of N. Richard Nash's play The Rainmaker.
