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The San Diego Symphony's Bayside Summer Nights 2017 concert series promises such established stars as Tony Bennett and New Orleans legend Dr. John, as well as up-and-coming artists like Lesl…
If "2.5 Minute Ride" is Shana Wride's first time performing a solo show, maybe she should try some other daunting debut pursuits as well: alligator wrestling, the running of the bulls, the r…
There's a specific " and sadly familiar " kind of tragedy at the heart of Nick Gandiello's play "The Blameless," which is about to receive its world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre. And ye…
Say goodbye, to Sleep Train Amphitheatre "Â not the venue, the name. Effective immediately, Sleep Train Amphitheatre "Â San Diego County's largest outdoor concert venue " will be known a…
One has six actors; the other is a solo piece. One centers on the playwright's mom; the other focuses mostly on her father. One had its world premiere in San Diego two decades ago; the other…
"Freaky Friday" will live to hit the stage another day. (Or week, actually.) La Jolla Playhouse announced today that it's adding one more extension to the run of the Disney-connected musi…
Television and stage actor-singer Jai Rodriguez, best known for his stint on TV's "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and Broadway's "Rent," returns to Hillcrest's Martinis Above Fourth with a …
Hannah Logan is known to local audiences as an accomplished and versatile actor (and a San Diego Theatre Critics Circle award-winner for her 2014 turn in Ion Theatre's "Bug"). But she's a…
Violinist Leonidas Kavakos made a rare appearance in San Diego Saturday evening at the Balboa Theatre. The Greek virtuoso is well known in Europe, not so much here. His accompanist, however"…
"Life could be a dream," a doo-wop singer croons over the opening moments of "Perfect Arrangement" " and as the lights go up on the smiling faces and glossy environs of this stylish Intrepid…
The film "9 to 5" came out in 1980, and its musical adaptation arrived in 2008, but the women's empowerment comedy is definitely having its day in 2017. "9 to 5: The Musical" When: 7:30 p…
The two most prominent characters in "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" don't have back stories so much as fore stories. Which must make this Steve Martin comedy, if you will, a fore play. (Hey, w…
The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle last night honored artists and productions from 10 local companies at the latest edition of the annual Craig Noel Awards. The Old Globe Theatre, Cygnet T…
Joy Yandell knows all about the 9-to-5 grind. Or, in her case, more like 6 to 2 (a.m.), as this working mom juggles parenting and acting and her non-theater professional life. "It's a tornad…
As the La Jolla Playhouse-launched musical "Come From Away" prepares for its Broadway debut in less than two weeks, another Playhouse-developed work has just been announced for a Broadway ru…
In "Blue Door," the compelling, provocative and sometimes wordy drama now making its Moxie Theatre debut, we meet Louis (Vimel Sephus), a brilliant mathematician with a wry sense of humor an…
The National Rifle Association can rest easy. Lady Gaga's Super Bowl halftime show performance Sunday did not include the tirade against newly elected President Donald J. Trump and his suppo…
The body-swapping mom and daughter of "Freaky Friday" may get into each other's heads more deeply than they ever dreamed. (Or dreaded.) But the heart of this La Jolla Playhouse musical remai…
Billy Crystal is surely not the only comedy legend who earned his first big laugh as an elementary school student, but he may be the only one who credits his initial success to b…
In 1989, Christopher Ashley teamed with a couple of other young New York theater artists to stage "Buzzsaw Berkeley," a late-night musical spoof about a deranged choreographer with chainsaws…
Ah, that Matilda. So spoiled. She has the ultimate helicopter parents, in the sense that they'd love nothing better than to dump her out of one. Serves her right, the uppity little blighter,…
Downtown's Lyceum Theatre complex, home to San Diego Rep, is staging a grand reopening " and the public is invited to join the festivities. The event takes place Tuesday (Feb. 7), starting w…
AÂ story made famous by a 1981Â Henry Fonda/Katharine Hepburn film hits the stage as the season-opener for Vista's Broadway. Randall Hickman directs Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond," t…
It may be set some 60 years ago, but "Perfect Arrangement" arrives with what seems perfect timing at Intrepid Theatre this week. Just weeks ago, former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry iss…
Here's the (lightly edited) transcript of James Hebert's Union-Tribune interview with Steve Martin about the Old Globe Theatre revival of Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile." (Also check o…
