The Old Globe comedy "Native Gardens" showcases some of the most conspicuous botanically centered aggression since that overgrown blossom started snacking on the help in "Little Shop of Horr…
Sometimes, a squirrel is just a squirrel. And sometimes, a play called "The Squirrels" is about just what it sounds as if it's about. That is the case, insists the playwright Robert Askins "…
Jimmy Buffett's Broadway party is about to wind down: The singer-songwriter's musical "Escape to Margaritaville," which had its world premiere at San Diego's own La Jolla Playhouse last year…
North Coast Rep is staging the West Coast premiere of Florian Zeller's time-bending, mystery-laced play "The Father," about an older man whose faltering grip on memory shakes up his life and…
A decade ago, Kerry Meads fell fast for "Falling Slowly," and for the bittersweet film musical that birthed the song. "I fell in love with the movie when it first came out," the director and…
It was a case of the upstart scoring an upset in 2004 when the scrappy, happily profane "Avenue Q" snagged the coveted Tony Award for best musical, sweeping away the witches of "Wicked." Fou…
Opera remains intimidating and maybe impenetrable for plenty of people, and so if the celebrated baritone Nathan Gunn's new stage memoir accomplishes nothing else, it still could help make t…
It's just four days more until the show that brought us "One Day More" and other beloved numbers lands in San Diego again. "Les Misérables," the epic musical based on Victor Hugo's 1862 nov…
If "Broadway" and "Audra" don't quite make a perfect rhyme, it's not for lack of trying: So closely identified is Audra McDonald with the biggest stage in American theater that it can seem a…
A bridge is usually the province of people in motion, but for the main character in the quietly probing and often surprising new play "The Wind and the Breeze," it's a place of repose and ev…
It's mere coincidence that Stephanie Alison Walker's play "The Madres" premiered Saturday at Moxie Theatre during the era of America's Women's Marches. The playwright actually based her hist…
A sun that's spun from loops of wire arcs across the Afghan sky, over silhouetted mountains fashioned from fencing and scraps of fabric. The visuals in "A Thousand Splendid Suns" are all the…
In the words of the Clash " a rock band, yes, but one that knew a little about rap: "Should I stay or should I go?" That's the pressing question (or one of them) at the center of "The Wind a…
"The King and I" The onetime San Diego theater maverick Bartlett Sher won a Tony Award in 2008 for the first Broadway revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's "South Pacific." Now he has directed …
The artistic leader of San Diego's LBGT-focused Diversionary Theatre and a prominent local Filipino American playwright are among the 2018 recipients of the San Diego Foundation's Creative C…
A painting isn't passive. It's not static or still. A painting, a good one, pulses and vibrates and bursts with life. That's how Mark Rothko saw things, anyway: To the celebrated abstract ex…
With two world-premiere musicals and three world-premiere plays, the Old Globe is going big on brand-new work for its just-announced 2018-19 season. And it's also going big when it comes to …
The 2018 Tony Awards nominations were announced this morning, and in what has long since become an annual occurrence, shows that originated in San Diego were among the picks for the Broadway…
It takes sacrifice, ambition, a little luck and a ton of raw talent to scale the heights of Broadway. It does not necessarily take a motto. But Brian Stokes Mitchell has one of those, too " …
William Shakespeare may have shuffled off his mortal coil 402 years ago this month, but his works still speak to high school senior Jaden Guerrero. "Shakespeare is the wackiest person you'll…
Dropped into the middle of "My Shot," the rousing song from the hit musical "Hamilton" that lays out the hero's dreams and ambitions, is an odd little line that might nudge the memory: "You'…
New York critics have some things to say about the La Jolla Playhouse-bred musical "Summer: The Donna Summer Musical," whose Broadway production opened Monday. And few of those things appear…
What do you give a guy for his 454th birthday? A party is always good, which is what the Old Globe Theatre has in mind for tomorrow (April 21) as it pays tribute to that house playwright, th…
He turned 81 on Friday, but life is much like it's always been for actor-activist George Takei: busy, busy, busy. Takei recently starred in the Los Angeles production of "Allegiance," a musi…
When last seen in San Diego, Edred Utomi was rocking a bright-red wig and an ungainly, podlike costume as a somewhat anonymous ensemble member in "Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas!…