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GUYS AND DOLLS, one of the mere handful of genuine masterpieces in the American musical theatre, is getting a sturdy, likeable but somewhat bloodless production by the Lamb’s Players. …
In the New Village Arts’ production of Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors, all’s well that ends well. Which is to say that Act 2 is stronger than Act 1.
In NVA’s (uncredi…
Martin McDonagh has a shaggy dog to sell. But watch out, because he might be scamming you.
Mr. McDonagh built his reputation by writing highly off-beat character studies set in remote parts…
THE RECCOMENDATION is a young man’s play,
frantic with jagged urgency over choosing the right next step from the options tumbling past so swiftly. But it is we old men, who understand …
Originally produced in the same era in which the television series, Mad Men, is set, Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Ho…
I thought we might be finally done with those tragic Old-South epics of the Civil War legacy. The dilapidated plantations, once-proud families, the ruined gallantry, the uncomfortable racial…
Kalaidescope views of
limbs and backsides flashed on a screen. An army of human caterpillars slammed
onto wrestling mats. Muscled men became weightless as if in outer space.
Pilobolus Dan…
Not a bad premise for a little Christmas musical: What ultimately happens to O’Henry’s loving young couple from “The Gift of the Magi,” the story where she sells her …
Any doubts that JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR is a genuine modern musical masterpiece should be banished forever by the splendid production in residence at the La Jolla Playhouse through December.
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Tony Kushner’s sprawling seven-hour masterpiece, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, won the Pulitzer Prize when it appeared on Broadway and has been hailed as one of…
Honey, I’m not in the mood…
You’ve got to be in the mood for San Diego REP’s production of The Great American Trailer Park Musical. You’ve got to be willing t…
ion Theatre, which I’ve called “the little company that could,” has set for itself a huge challenge this fall. The company is staging two difficult plays for overlapping r…
To say that Dead Man’s Cell Phone fits Moxie Theatre like a well-worn glove intends no criticism of either the play or the producing company. Or, for that matter, the glove.
The play …
The road trip as a means of finding oneself and repairing relationships is a theme that’s as old as the Black Hills of South Dakota. Yet, audiences continue to flock to the road trip s…
SOMEWHERE, now in its world premiere on the Old Globe’s White Theatre stage, is a play with a choreographer but no musical director. And its five actors offer some of the best theatre …
Walter Cronkite was called “the voice of God,” and his newscasts helped the country celebrate good times and kept people together during bad times. A nation cried with him when …
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW is still a triumph of form over content. The story is piffle; the presentation is all. What’s surprising is how well the thing works, 40 years later.
It was titil…
Hey, everyone, let’s put on a show. What’s it about? Nothing. I know, Jerry Seinfeld did that already, but hear me out.
There’s this show playing in Carlsbad called Thom…
Edward II, by Christopher Marlowe, is considered to be one of the early British “history” plays, perhaps the first one. Like many of these plays (and Shakespeare would become fam…
In 2008, 17 students at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts became pregnant at the same time, leading to speculation that some of the teens had made a “pregnancy pact.” The …
TRYING, now at the Lamb’s Players Theatre in Coronado, is one of those rueful, wintry dramas of the great man living out his last days. The end is inevitable; the only question is will…
Little Shop of Horrors, at Cygnet Theatre in Old Town, is a hoot and a holler filled with chutzpah. It’s also the most solid “audience show” you’re likely to see in …
Word association: What is the first word you think of when someone says...Shaw? The answer may well be “words.”
Or as Eliza Doolittle says/sings in PYGMALION/MY FAIR LADY, &ldquo…
It’s the kind of idea that blooms late in a brainstorm session and then just never goes away until it becomes reality.
”How about a musical dealing with sleep disorders and featu…
Like a great rock concert, San Diego REP’s The Who’s Tommy explodes off the Lyceum Stage, at points leaving the audience in a state of awe.
After last summer’s successful c…
