San Diegan Liz Nederlander Coden named her recently created website " yourshotinjanuary.org " with good reason. You will understand if you were among the many eager theatergoers who tried, b…
Di will have her day at La Jolla Playhouse. The theater announced today that the Princess Diana musical workshopped in New York last summer by Playhouse artistic director Christopher Ashley …
Ozomatli is not the first act to perform for two consecutive nights at the Music Box, the downtown San Diego venue that occupies the former site of Anthology. But this veteran Los Angeles ba…
Teatro Máscara Mágica's holiday favorite "La Pastorela" was once San Diego's longest-running theater tradition. Until last year, when it wasn't " the result of a venue issue that force…
The lighting is subdued, the surprises are dialed back and the sound is toned down for the annual sensory-friendly version of "Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" at the Old Globe. …
Jake Clemons has been the saxophonist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band since 2012, when he replaced his deceased uncle, Clarence Clemons. But any assumptions that this 37-year-old singer…
Country singer Cam may spend a lot of time in Nashville these days, but Oceanside will always hold a special place in her heart. "My grandparents have a horse ranch in Oceanside," she says. …
Eight months after it opened in New York, the La Jolla Playhouse-launched musical "Come From Away" continues to go strong on Broadway. The latest evidence: The show, which had its world prem…
San Diego-area theaters may be serving up Scrooge x 2 this season, as both Old Town's Cygnet and Escondido's Welk host old Eb and his infernal humbugs. But in other ways this seems a notably…
The moors of 19th century literature are lonely and isolated, as enigmatic as the shifting fog that enshrouds them. Mystery and even danger inevitably await. They are also a "savage" place i…
It's entirely possible that no one ever died from disco, no matter how far they might've plunged off their platform shoes. But anyone feeling personally injured by the pounding beats and spe…
"Summer: The Donna Summer Musical," which opened Sunday at the La Jolla Playhouse and runs through Dec. 24, is neither the first nor the most recent disco jukebox musical. Those distinctions…
"What have you got to write about that's so important all the time?," one of Anne Frank's fellow refugees asks her a little dismissively in the stage version of her story. Now we know the an…
Good luck and unexpected windfalls didn't transform Alex Woodard's life for the better in 2008. But bad luck and unexpected pitfalls did lead to a positive transformation for this former chi…
For those whose lives have not be roiled by autism, the events that unfold in the play "Falling" might prove startling and more than a little upsetting. For those whose daily routines more o…
Four new plays " including a world-premiere work from the writer of the button-pushing Broadway comedy "Hand to God" " will be part of the 2018-19 La Jolla Playhouse season, the theater anno…
Four actors are working their way through a tense scene in rehearsals for the play "Falling" when an unscripted visitor comes loping through the action. It's a small dog named Ireland, whose…
A little over a year after it premiered at La Jolla Playhouse, "Junk" has officially opened on Broadway " and the critics, while they like some of what they see, are hedging a bit on this pl…
London may have its Changing of the Guard, but San Diego has its own tradition of grand transition: The Conferral of the Fur. That would be the shaggy green getup that graces the title chara…
We'll have to take playwright Ernest Thompson's word for it that the pond in the title of his most famous work is, in fact, golden; we see only a glimpse of its shores through the windows of…
Donna Summer ruled disco " and, for a time nearly four decades ago, the pop-music universe. Not everyone, of course, was wild about the dance-minded style that Summer helped turn into a defi…
Musical theater and horror flicks just go together like tap-dancing and chainsaw maniacs. (Or something.) And they've been going together for nearly 15 years now with "Evil Dead " The Musica…
There's a moment in North Coast Rep's arresting "Of Mice and Men" where George Milton details to his pal Lennie Small the dream of someday tending a ranch of their own. As George speaks, he …
"Hamilton" fans, here comes your shot.The smash-hit Broadway musical's touring presenter has just announced that tickets to the show's much-anticipated Jan. 6-28 engagement at the San Diego …
Dr. Seuss, Mr. Shakespeare and some budding playwright named Neil Simon make for the dynamic (if unlikely) trio behind the Old Globe Theatre's just-announced 2018 summer season. The four-pla…