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It's a little startling when, toward the end of the darkly poetic "Blacktop Sky," the young homeless man Klass suddenly turns to us and observes: "You may not be fully aware of the times we'…
Twenty-five years after it touched audiences at the movies, "The Bodyguard" is having the same effect on theatergoers. "People are really moved and inspired when they leave the show," said D…
Even with its doomed hero, there's not much drama or surprise in "Buddy " The Buddy Holly Story," which triumphantly opened Sunday night at the Horton Grand Theatre downtown. This might pres…
It takes nine players to make a baseball team, which means San Diego Musical Theatre could field an entire five-club division with the mob of actors and musicians the company suits up for it…
The story of Shakespeare's "Richard II" revolves around two men who would be king. The story of the Old Globe Theatre's return to the darkly poetic history play, though, revolves around two …
Margaritaville is both a place and state of mind. Word is that it's also " and we're working to confirm this now " the title of a popular song. Seriously, though, it seems a genius move of t…
They faced chauvinism, ridicule, oppression and the gleaming blade of the guillotine. Nevertheless, they persisted. And in Lauren Gunderson's inventive, history-inflected "The Revolutionists…
Jimmy Buffett talks about his new musical, Escape to Margaritaville, which is playing at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego.
From rock to pop-opera to classic show tunes, musicals rule San Diego's stages this summer. But there's still room for some promising plays, too. Here's a look at what's likely to heat up lo…
Legendary Broadway, film and television star Ben Vereen was recently in town to promote the Ben Vereen Awards, his San Diego-based awards program honoring high-school theater artists taking …
Acting is many ways an exercise in seeing the world through someone else's eyes. For Paul Eddy, though, there's been the added matter of trying to see through Buddy Holly's glasses. Holly's …
On its surface, Molière's "The Imaginary Invalid" " the story of a man fixated on, and frustrated by, matters of health care " would seem a pretty apt choice of play for this moment in hist…
The news keeps on coming for "Come From Away," the 9/11-connected Broadway musical that had its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse two years ago in a co-production with Seattle Rep. Junkya…
With barely three weeks until the Tony Awards ceremony, the La Jolla Playhouse-bred musical "Come From Away" " which is nominated for seven of the Broadway theater honors " continues to rack…
You don't have to be a close friend of Freud to believe that dreams can be a kind of core sample of one's closest-held hopes and fears " or know that they're often driven by a feel of the fa…
The moon is losing its light. Its caretaker has hurried off to find his wayward wife, leaving no one to refill the cosmic orb with liquid illumination each night. That's the story " or part …
Thirteen years ago, "Jersey Boys" was born at La Jolla Playhouse and went straight to Broadway, where it prospered in a 12-year run that finally concluded in January. Now, the musical biogra…
"Come From Away," the 9/11-inspired Broadway musical that premiered at La Jolla Playhouse in 2015, won five awards Monday, including Outstanding Musical, from the Outer Critics Circle in New…
For all the talk in "The Music Man" of big brass bands and boatloads of trombones, what's remarkable about this never-gets-old show is the way some of its best musical moments spring from th…
The song "Margaritaville" will forever call to mind a mystical land where the frosty beverages are as plentiful and necessary as the flip-flops (if only slightly less treacherous than the po…
A world-premiere musical about love and mental illness, a brand-new play about mariachis, plus some classic Chekhov, Wilde and Shakespeare and an epic set in Afghanistan. That's just the sta…
Des McAnuff still laughs when he recalls what the writer Marshall Brickman once said of "Jersey Boys": "If it were about four physicists, there wouldn't be any songs." That remark gets to th…
Two La Jolla Playhouse-bred shows will be right in the mix for the 2017 Tony Awards. The nominations for the top annual Broadway theater honors were announced today, and "Come From Away" was…
Peering at glass plates to divine the secrets of the cosmos, Henrietta Leavitt managed to crack the glass ceiling of astronomy. Lauren Gunderson's play "Silent Sky" honors the starry achieve…
Predicting the Tony Award nominations is easy: "Hamilton" for everything! Hang on … now we're being told that "Hamilton" is not, in fact, eligible to compete for the Broadway theater honor…
