In spite of the whimsicality of its title, Mark St. Germain's "Camping with Henry & Tom" is a confrontational play. In imagining what might have happened when the automaking titan Henry Ford…
It's true that "Beachtown," the audience-interactive work that has its world premiere at San Diego Rep next month, is what could be called an "immersive" work of theater. That doesn't mean t…
When she was 4 years old, Angel Joy Blue saw her very first opera: "Turandot." This week, the Southern California soprano will mark another first. She'll make her role debut as Liù in Gia…
The plays of Anton Chekhov form a pillar of world drama, second maybe only to the works of mighty Shakespeare in importance and influence. But the thing about pillars is, they're a little ha…
Bekah Brunstetter is not a big fan of turbulence. At least of the literal kind. The last time the playwright was in San Diego, for the Old Globe's 2013 production of her dark comedy "Be a Go…
It's an irrefutable truth, a basic principle of human existence: Things just go better with ninjas. Not that "Vietgone" necessarily needs their help. Qui Nguyen's bursting-with-personality p…
Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" gets put through the modern-romcom mixmaster in "I Love You Because," the off-Broadway chamber musical about to hit the stage in Ocean Beach. The piece by…
You can hear the voice-acting talents of Herbert Siguenza in the current hit movie "Coco," and you've been able to witness his talents as a stage actor and writer for decades now via his exp…
In the 21 years since she made her Broadway debut in the musical "Steel Pier," Kristin Chenoweth has won both a Tony Award (for "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown") and an Emmy (for TV's "Pus…
"The Full Monty" has deep roots in San Diego. It was born at The Old Globe in 2000, and it was the first musical ever produced by San Diego Musical Theatre in May 2007. On Saturday, SDMT ret…
You could argue that every week is theater week in San Diego " one of the most active theater towns in America, with a reputation that stretches to Broadway and beyond thanks to the new work…
Qui Nguyen wrote "Vietgone" more or less on a dare. From his own mother. Who, as it happens, the play is pretty much about. The kicker is, the playwright's mom has yet to see the piece. But …
England's King Henry VIII made for a notoriously nasty husband: If you were a wife of his, chances were one in three you'd get your head lopped off eventually. But in Kate Hennig's bracing, …
A decade ago last May, San Diego Musical Theatre launched with a production of "The Full Monty," the movie-based musical about steelworkers who moonlight as amateur strippers. The company ha…
Brad Paisley, Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum and Dierks Bentley are just some of the artists who will perform at Mattress Firm Amphitheatre as part of the San Diego venue's annual Country Meg…
The distinguished director-actor Maria Aitken might be a bigger name in Britain than she is on these shores. But if you saw what she did with the ingeniously amusing Hitchcock ode "The 39 St…
In the first month of the year, when many of us ponder our past and make future resolutions, choreographer Jean Isaacs takes her inspiration from Janus, the Roman god who presided over begin…
The biggest thing happening in San Diego theater at the moment " actually, the biggest in quite a few moments " isn't really part of San Diego theater at all. It's the touring production of …
Rewind your mind to a time when America was less a country than a concept, a wild surmise birthed in bloodshed and steeped in dreams of sweet freedom. And then consider the unlikely triumph …
San Diego " and the nation " meet your new Hamilton. Producers of "Hamilton," the smash-hit Broadway musical that opens a three-week touring engagement at the San Diego Civic Theatre tomorro…
"Hamilton" Opens Saturday. 7 p.m. Tuesdays-Wednesdays; 7:30 p.m. Thursdays; 8 p.m. Fridays; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays; 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sundays. Through Jan. 28. San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 Th…
Sarah Alida LeClair is a San Diego actor-musician and performing-arts educator who teaches at Monte Vista High School in Spring Valley. Her recent stage credits include "The Last Five Years"…
Sam Woodhouse is the artistic director of San Diego Repertory Theatre, which he co-founded in 1976 and helped turn into one of the leading regional theaters in the nation. He has worked on h…
Sometimes the biggest gifts in a work of live theater involve the seemingly smallest moments " a single memorable scene, a fleeting but hard-to-shake visual, a particularly startling perform…
The latest world-premiere musical at La Jolla Playhouse is about to make a quick dance to Broadway. "Summer: The Donna Summer Musical," which is still running at the Playhouse, has just been…