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Now that he has spent almost two years on the road, Jacob Haren is about to wrap up his "Mormon" mission. "It's super-Method," jokes the North County bred-actor at how his stint with the tou…
The next line to be delivered at this evening's performance by a hapless but passionate Eastern European theater troupe promises to be heart-stopping. Not for the audience. For the actor. Th…
The Old Globe has found its Prince of Denmark to lead the Balboa Park theater's first revival of "Hamlet" in a decade. The Globe is announcing that Grantham Coleman will take on the title ro…
In Rachel Bond's gently affecting new play; HEIDI ("Angie") ARMBRUSTER's low-key performance gives her character the authentic feel of a lost but resilient soul who gains a sense of self.
Randall Hickman is the kind of actor who loves to wrap his arms around an acting challenge. So what could be better than a character who has eight arms? (Not to mention some very serious mak…
Poetry is an abiding presence in Rachel Bonds' "At the Old Place." And her gently affecting new play calls to mind a line from a poem that's not actually in the piece: "I learn by going wher…
Nothing's done halfway in Cygnet Theatre's slaphappy (and slapstick-y) revival of the Marx Brothers musical "Animal Crackers": Even Groucho's plus-sized mustache looks as if a semi-truck wen…
Bogus beggars, plunderous nuns, cops on the take, gamblers on the make: The fine people of "Guys and Dolls" work so many angles you have to plot their progress with a protractor. And that's …
A good stage director is always thinking 10 steps ahead. And from the sound of things, Moxie Theatre executive artistic director Delicia Turner Sonnenberg " one of San Diego's most accomplis…
To those who know Leslie Odom Jr. for his Tony Award-winning turn in the world-conquering musical "Hamilton," the dashing singer-actor might seem some kind of overnight success. The truth is…
It was 62 years ago this summer that Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi " an appalling racial crime that helped ignite the civil rights movement. This week, Ion Theatre revisits his sto…
The matchless 1950 musical "Guys and Dolls" has been revived to within an inch of its life over the decades, with a whole lot more than a bushel and a peck (to borrow from one of its songs) …
The San Diego International Fringe Festival, whose fifth edition is now in full (and often freaky) flower here and in Tijuana, is a definition-defying mix of theater, dance, music and multip…
The windows of Dea Hurston's high-rise condo frame sweeping views of San Diego, from Balboa Park to Coronado to the blue Pacific beyond. And when Hurston purchased the place with her husband…
It seems pretty certain that if the novelist Emily Brontë had her druthers " or is that drithers? " the people behind the play "Withering Heights" would be tossed off the nearest (Heath)c…
What had seemed inevitable for Mo`olelo Performing Arts Co. has officially come to pass: The socially engaged San Diego theater company is calling it quits after 13 years. But the once-thriv…
It's been some week for Will Shakespeare, what with the uproar surrounding the Public Theater's Trump-ian depiction of Julius Caesar in the play about the ill-fated Roman. So maybe it's impo…
The musical "Big Fish" is the story about a dying father and his adult son who become estranged over the dad's passion for spinning wildly embellished tales. It was first told in a successfu…
For its third festival incarnation, WoW is heading south. The Without Walls Festival " La Jolla Playhouse's celebration of immersive, site-specific and otherwise boundary-busting performance…
If theatrical overkill could, you know, kill, you might need a bodyguard for protection from the excesses of "The Bodyguard." Not that bombast is all there is to this movie-based musical, wh…
As Moonlight Stage Productions rolls out "Aida" " the Vista company's first production of the 2017 summer season " it's also announcing the lineup for its 2018 season, which offers some majo…
In most places, summer is a season. In San Diego, it's a state of mind. With year-round sunshine (ish), what differentiates summer here from the rest of the year are a couple of 90-plus-degr…
Quick " name that Disney-originated Broadway musical with the songs by Elton John and Tim Rice and the story about African royalty. If you said "The Lion King," you'd be right " but you also…
The Tony Awards took a surprise direction for two La Jolla Playhouse-bred shows last night " with "direction" being the operative word. While the musical "Come From Away" and the play "Indec…
It's true that the Tony Awards chose an unusual suspect to host the 2017 edition of the annual Broadway theater honors. But the anointing of Kevin Spacey " the Oscar-winning actor ("The Usua…
