79 stories by "Bill Eadie"
This production, which features the work of the cast and creative team of the Off-Broadway version, wouldn't be nearly so effective in less skillful hands.
In the right hands, journalism can be fun. The trick is to define the right hands.
Jon Robin Baitz's play Other Desert Cities is, perhaps, ideal for San Diego audiences. Even though it's set in the desert playground northeast of us, we know Polly and Lyman Wyeth.
The 2013 San Diego theatre season shifts into high gear with the West Coast debut of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, and Darko Tresnjak's fast-paced and whimsical production will be …
Hershey Felder has made a name for himself doing solo performances about musicians (Gershwin, Chopin, Beethoven, Bernstein). His new project, An American Story, marks a departure from that p…
... my vote for best new musical of 2012 goes to the just opened Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, performing through December 16 at La Jolla Playhouse.
There is very little right with this lugubrious production of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson potboiler, starting with the work itself. Mr. Bric…
God of Carnage makes its San Diego premiere at the Old Globe's White Theatre, an intimate, in-the-round, space.
. In Michael Kramer and D. S. Moynihan's play, Divine Rivalry, playing through August 5 at San Diego's Old Globe, there's lots of proof of the difficulty of creation and not nearly enough bi…
Hoodoo Love is interesting primarily for its detailed portrayal of a place and time.
Los Angeles-based playwright Zsa Zsa Gershick won some awards for diversity in theatre for her play Bluebonnet Court. She's riffing on the same themes in Coming Attractions, which is making …
What could have been a vanity project for a young actor has turned out to be a serious venture, one worth supporting.
The Scottsboro Boys is making its West Coast premiere in a co-production by San Diego's Old Globe and San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater. Despite being deeply flawed, the musical …
Topdog/Underdog is an old story, as old as Cain and Abel, as old as Tom ("Mom loved you best") and Dick Smothers, as old as two of Sam Shepard's brothers dueling out their sibling rivalries …
We're neither pure, nor wise, nor goodWe'll do the
best we know. We'll build our house and chop our woodAnd make our
garden grow.
--from Candide, music by Leonard Bernst...
For writers, “this” is perhaps the most evil word in the dictionary. Unmodified, “this” is a sign of sloppiness of pen and probably of thought as well. Simply remem…
Elizabeth Meriwether’s Heddatron, making its West Coast premiere through March 31 at ion Theatre, is an uneven and smart-alecky play written by a 29-year-old Yale grad. It sure can be…
I’ll start with a bold claim: Cygnet Theatre’s production of Parade is not only its biggest musical production ever, but it’s also its best.
The claim is a bold one, becaus…
If Geoffrey Nauffts’ funny and multi-layered play, Next Fall, were a sermon its text would be taken from 1 Corinthians 13:13: “And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; a…
In the New Village Arts’ production of Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors, all’s well that ends well. Which is to say that Act 2 is stronger than Act 1.
In NVA’s (uncredi…
Martin McDonagh has a shaggy dog to sell. But watch out, because he might be scamming you.
Mr. McDonagh built his reputation by writing highly off-beat character studies set in remote parts…
"The Recommendation" ... making its world premiere at The Old Globe through February 26, goes in the direction of interrogating the influence of class differences and upward aspirations on …
Originally produced in the same era in which the television series, Mad Men, is set, Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Ho…
The late Horton Foote loved the characters he put in his plays. He wanted them to be human with all that implies, grace, foolishness, the works. Even if we don't like them we can tell that h…
It's a story that emphasizes the melancholy many experience during the holiday season, and Mr. Sater's book starts well in the get-acquainted scenes but deteriorates as melancholy overwhelms…
