San Diego's Old Globe Theatre has been picked to host a national gathering of artists and administrators dedicated to bringing Shakespeare to people behind bars. The 2018 Shakespeare in Pris…
Matt Harrington's theatrical homecoming has been a long time coming: It's been 18 years since the actor and Point Loma High grad won a prestigious national Shakespeare competition and then h…
A mysterious poet, cast adrift in space and time, wanders through the centuries, bearing witness to the endless cycle of human suffering. This poet, who first found voice in the Trojan War m…
Brad Paisley, Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan are among the top acts that will perform at Sleep Train Amphitheatre in Chula Vista as part of the sprawling venue's 2017Â Country Megaticket conc…
It seems just a throwaway phrase, uttered at the top of "Bad Jews" with a shrug and a smile: "Feelings, right?" Ah yes, feelings " those cute little things that wind up biting people's faces…
Broadway/San Diego's just-unveiled 2017-18 season of touring shows includes several big musicals that will hit town for the first time. But the biggest news might be about a show that's alre…
Its Disney-movie pedigree and high comic concept don't exactly paint "Freaky Friday" as the stuff of solemn drama. And yet Bridget Carpenter says those who settle in for the musical-stage ve…
January is named after the Roman god Janus, depicted on ancient coins, temples and doorways as a head with two faces, looking in opposite directions. He presides over beginnings, endings and…
A classic musical comedy, a reprised Sondheim favorite and a freshly commissioned new work: All are part of Cygnet Theatre's 2017-18 season, the Old Town theater's impressive 15th. Besides t…
The next liaison is never far away in New Fortune Theatre's revival of that ode to romantic barbarity "Les Liaisons Dangereuses." The danger, though, seems a bit more scarce. Or, if not dang…
The central figure in "Beau Jest" is a young woman who proves to be making do with her present boyfriend until a better beau comes along. As hard as the six committed actors at Lamb's Player…
For three decades now, the San Diego-based Playwrights Project has been championing top young dramatists by producing their work in an annual festival. And in that time, no one has seen more…
With its pay phones and pagers and end-of-the-millennium angst, "Rent" can't help but feel at times like a '90s rewind. And yet the show, whose potent 20th-anniversary tour just landed at th…
Hershey Felder's past shows about famous composers have frequently been probing and poignant. Seldom, though, have they been deeply political. It's a different story, though, with "Our Great…
We were warned not to miss a moment of Jimmy Fallon's Golden Globes opening number, which some had accurately predicted would be an extended tribute to "La La Land." And why not? Damien C…
Coming into Sunday night's Golden Globes ceremony, there were two big questions. Would the awards do anything to dramatically shake up an Oscars race that has been largely domina…
In "My Fair Lady," Henry Higgins is a wealthy and self-congratulatory buffoon who treats women "Â well, treats everybody "Â as toys and would stick a third foot in his mouth if he had on…
On a Wednesday evening in Manhattan's East Village, 21 years ago this month, Christopher Ashley was attending the final dress rehearsal of a new rock musical called "Rent," and reveling in t…
Musicians are rarely at a loss for words. Accordingly, as this new year gets underway, we look back at some of the more memorable quotes from interviews that appeared in the Union-T…
Lamb's launches the year with a return to the James Sherman comedy "Beau Jest," which centers on mistaken identity and romantic subterfuge. The piece, which plays off the title of the advent…
There's nothing modest about "Les Liaisons Dangereuses." Certainly not the play's scope " nor the conduct of its characters. "It's a beast," says Richard Baird, who's both co-directing…
Five very different shows from across the San Diego theater spectrum tied for the most nominations in the just-announced field for the Craig Noel Awards, presented annually by the San Diego …
Between its often-toxic politics and its seemingly endless string of sad passings (beginning with David Bowie, always a pioneer), 2016 hardly appears destined to land on anyon…
For artists and audiences, a new year brings a blank canvas, a fresh page, a wide-open stage upon which to start building from the blueprint of creative dreams. With that opportunity for a b…
The presents may all be put away and the Christmas tree contemplating retirement, but as far as San Diego theater is concerned, the holidays ain't over yet. Not quite so many yuletide shows …