There's a lot more to the movie-turned-musical "Benny & Joon" than those character names can convey, from a focus on the broader meaning of family to a frank consideration of mental illness.…
La Jolla Playhouse has unveiled the full lineup for the 2017 Without Walls Festival, the third edition of the theater's celebration of immersive and site-specific art. As announced previousl…
A few months back, Richie Ploesch was excitedly tossing ideas to Gary Kramer, the artistic director of San Diego's National Comedy Theatre, on how improv might benefit teen-agers with autism…
With his solo show "Latin History for Morons," John Leguizamo is about to repeat some history of his own: It will be the second piece the actor, playwright and comic provocateur has taken fr…
A San Diego landmark that was once alive with crowds and music every year at this time has been dormant for seven summers now. But organizers of the latest effort to reopen Balboa Park's his…
Jack Tempchin and Glenn Frey had much in common when they struck up a lifelong friendship at a San Diego music club called the Candy Company in the late 1960s. It was a few years before Frey…
With apologies to Winston Churchill: If the British Empire should last a thousand years, people will still say the Victorian Era was its funniest hour. Not that those decades of repressive m…
As musical odes to roadways go, "Sunset Boulevard" is in a whole different area code from, say, "42nd Street" or "Avenue Q." And not just as gauged by GPS. Based on the classic 1950 Billy Wi…
At ease, San Diego #HamFans: There's no word yet on an on-sale date for the local engagement of "Hamilton," the megahit musical that runs Jan. 6-28 at the Civic Theatre downtown. (We're stil…
Tony Award-winning actor and singer-songwriter Levi Kreis brings his music to San Diego Friday as part of a tour in support of his new album, "Broadway at the Keys." Kreis won the best featu…
Sprawled belly-down on a bed, scrawling in a notebook as he ponders the prospect of a "consummation" with the grave; in the Old Globe's powerful new staging of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy…
Valerie Perri is ready for her close-up.This month, the Broadway star with major pipes, who at only 23 years old was "plucked from obscurity" by Hal Prince himself to play Eva Perón in "E…
Don't cry for Eva Perón, theatergoers, because the musical about her is definitely not about to do it.Or maybe you should shed a tear or two " although at this point it's a little late in…
A Tony Award-nominated star of a major Old Globe-connected Broadway hit is bound for San Diego to join the Globe's world-premiere musical "Benny & Joon." The Balboa Park theater is announcin…
In Mat Smart's black comedy "Kill Local," Sheila's in a dead-end job. Video games and Chipotle takeout are far more compelling than carrying on the family business. But murder doesn't wait, …
The U.S. presidential race was still raging last year when San Diego Rep and its artistic director, Sam Woodhouse, chose a show that seemed ideal for the times: "Evita." After all, Woodhouse…
Jeffrey Joe Morin spent almost 40 years working as an industrial and technical designer, in addition to having served as the art director for the colorized version of the film classic "Casab…
Sunday afternoon's White Box Live Jazz & Dance series concert at Liberty Station will be a multi-generational family affair. Dancers Liv Isaacs Nolet and Emily Miller will perform two pieces…
A few things can be said for certain about "Hamlet": It's a work of almost incalculable influence, the lodestone of Western literature. It has served " for centuries now " as a gold standard…
'The Book of Mormon" is hardly a traditional stage musical, but in its third visit to San Diego in four years, the outrageous comedy has settled into comfortably traditional touring status. …
Next up at InnerMission Productions: Adam Gwon's 2009 chamber musical "Ordinary Days," about the intersecting paths of four young New Yorkers struggling to sort out their hopes and dreams in…
The 1990s had the blistering grunge of Nirvana and the bubblegum of the Spice Girls; the cultural explosion of hip-hop and the curious implosion of Milli Vanilli; the tragedy of Princess Di …
On a cool evening in early June, as auditions get under way for the play "Falling," the conversation onstage is as subdued as the lighting in the intimate "black box" theater. But as the act…
How diverse is the appeal of "Mystery Science Theater 3000," the wonderfully skewed cult TV series whose first national tour " "Watch Out for Snakes!" " is coming to San Diego for Comic-Con?…