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Two Broadway shows with La Jolla Playhouse origins are making plenty of noise in the annual round of New York theater-award nominations, boosting chances they'll be in contention for the Ton…
Dreams " of the "trippy visions while you slumber" variety " play a big role in "Ballast," the world-premiere play that's about to hit Diversionary Theatre's stage. And dreams " of the "maki…
After brief La Jolla visit, singer-songwriter has been all over the globe as his musical gets ready to debut
The just-announced pick as host of the 2017 Tony Awards is definitely not one of the usual suspects. The organizers of the annual Broadway theater honors revealed this morning that stage and…
To top its 2017 gala, the Old Globe Theatre is trotting out a "Rock" star. That would be Jane Krakowski, cast member of the former NBC hit "30 Rock" (and current Netflix hit "Unbreakable Kim…
Different worlds converge, rather than collide, in the improbably varied life and music of Lila Downs. Like the Grateful Dead, the fabled San Francisco band she used to follow from city to c…
Before they co-founded the Roustabouts, Phil Johnson and Ruff Yeager's most high-profile collaboration was on a trippy, B-movie-inspired comedy about alien spider people. But it turns out th…
Success changes everything, and no other annual festival in the world has been as successful as the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. This year's edition, which runs Friday through Sun…
Three hundred seventy-seven thousand two hundred minutes. No, that's not how the lyric from that big song in "Rent" will go once the new presidential administration's funding cuts begin to d…
'The Man Who Came to Dinner' When: 1 p.m. Thursdays and Sundays; 8 p.m. Fridays; 1 and 8 p.m. Saturdays. Through April 30. Where: Premiere Productions at the Welk Resorts Theatre, 8860 Lawre…
Inside Joe Fitzpatrick's jampacked garage, about 50 puppets small and large sit in stillness, waiting for the next show. A ghost, a witch, a dragon, a leprechaun and an ostrich are among the…
San Diego Musical Theatre's fast-paced "First Date" is an energetic ride, thanks to a strong-voiced and talented cast that's all dressed up and ready to roll. But sometimes it seems as if th…
The Border Patrol agent thinks it's a con when Nayeli, the young Mexican heroine of "Into the Beautiful North," tells him why she has just crossed into the U.S. illegally. "You wanna go nort…
San Diego audiences are finally getting a look at "Finding Neverland" this week, five years after a planned production of the "Peter Pan"-inspired musical at La Jolla Playhouse was shelved. …
The Old Globe is about to go green with a big Dr. Seuss musical once again " but this time it has nothing to do with the Grinch. The Balboa Park theater is announcing that it will co-present…
He's attending rehearsals, but you'll also see him around town--surfing, eating tacos and keeping his trademark vibe alive. If you don't spot him in public, you can find him on social media.
'First Date" gets its first local dates starting this week, as San Diego Musical Theatre stages the area premiere of the Broadway-tested musical comedy. It's not the first go-round for SDMT …
How can Green Day top itself, after being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, winning five Grammy Awards and watching its acclaimed 2004 album, "American Idiot," be transfo…
The new musical "The Geeze and Me" delves into a litany of indignities that can come with age, from night sweats to incontinence to loss of sleep from contemplating that irreversible conditi…
The African-American actor Ira Aldridge broke an imposing color barrier in theater. The play "Red Velvet" portrays a moment when the theater also nearly broke him. Lolita Chakrabarti's richl…
With his 2009 novel "Into the Beautiful North," Luis Alberto Urrea took a familiar story " of would-be immigrants traversing the U.S.-Mexico border " and turned it on its head. Urrea's chara…
"Peter Pan" is the story of a gravity-defying young renegade who teaches others that they, too, can fly. "Finding Neverland" is the (more or less) real-life account of how that story got off…
The people in "Awake and Sing!" can sling a quip or an insult like nobody's business " although pretty much everyone is up in everybody else's business in the cramped and often combative hou…
The dictionary lists a colorful clutch of definitions for "roustabout": deckhand, odd-jobber, circus worker, oil-field grunt. Now you can add another one to that motley roster: drama-slinger…
Spring brings a major crop of musicals to San Diego's stages " including a high-profile world premiere that showcases the songs of Jimmy Buffett. But there are some plays worth watching for,…
