79 stories by "Bill Eadie"
But, what makes this production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" into more than a pleasant, if aurally loud, evening in the theatre is the care in which the storyline is presented.
Tony Kushner’s sprawling seven-hour masterpiece, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, won the Pulitzer Prize when it appeared on Broadway and has been hailed as one of…
Honey, I’m not in the mood…
You’ve got to be in the mood for San Diego REP’s production of The Great American Trailer Park Musical. You’ve got to be willing t…
"Heroes," in its San Diego premiere at the North Coast Repertory Theatre, is a slight work that nevertheless provides an opportunity to savor performances from veteran actors.
ion Theatre, which I’ve called “the little company that could,” has set for itself a huge challenge this fall. The company is staging two difficult plays for overlapping r…
Mr. Lopez's new play, "Somewhere," whose world premiere production continues at the Old Globe's White Theatre through October 30, features a show-tune-loving Puerto Rican family in the late …
To say that Dead Man’s Cell Phone fits Moxie Theatre like a well-worn glove intends no criticism of either the play or the producing company. Or, for that matter, the glove.
The play …
The road trip as a means of finding oneself and repairing relationships is a theme that’s as old as the Black Hills of South Dakota. Yet, audiences continue to flock to the road trip s…
The Old Globe's production of what is now officially called "Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show" is a mixed bag: about the right amount of transgression but too little camp.
Walter Cronkite was called “the voice of God,” and his newscasts helped the country celebrate good times and kept people together during bad times. A nation cried with him when …
an of La Mancha arguably marked a turning point in American musical theatre. It opened in 1965, at the peak of that decade's idealism where everyone wanted to "dream the impossible dream."
Hey, everyone, let’s put on a show. What’s it about? Nothing. I know, Jerry Seinfeld did that already, but hear me out.
There’s this show playing in Carlsbad called Thom…
Edward II, by Christopher Marlowe, is considered to be one of the early British “history” plays, perhaps the first one. Like many of these plays (and Shakespeare would become fam…
In 2008, 17 students at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts became pregnant at the same time, leading to speculation that some of the teens had made a “pregnancy pact.” The …
New Village Arts Theatre, which is presenting "Ah, Wilderness!" through August 28, has launched a season built around an ensemble of actors, designers and techs who will work together for a …
Little Shop of Horrors, at Cygnet Theatre in Old Town, is a hoot and a holler filled with chutzpah. It’s also the most solid “audience show” you’re likely to see in …
Like a great rock concert, San Diego REP’s The Who’s Tommy explodes off the Lyceum Stage, at points leaving the audience in a state of awe.
After last summer’s successful c…
Diversionary celebrates theatre that is written by lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender authors or work that features LGBT characters. MOXIE does the same for women of all sexual orientatio…
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…
"Sigh no more, ladies." Well, not exactly. The Old Globe's Shakespeare Festival production of Much Ado About Nothing has plenty of melancholy to go around.
Jean Paul Sartre famously said that hell is "other people," and Dante created a special section in the eighth circle of hell for those who were fraudulent and deceivers. But who might pity a…
The company had a hit with last year's Shakespeare Festival, so it rehired the artistic director, former Royal Shakespeare Company chief Adrian Noble, who, in turn, hired back many of the sa…
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…
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…
Perhaps the truest test of a play's staying power comes when new creative teams rethink and reshape it. By that standard, the Old Globe's production, running through June 12, shows August: O…
