Bickering, criticizing, second-guessing, sabotaging: Hey, that's what friends are for. The three longtime pals in Yasmina Reza's "Art," now getting a cuttingly funny revival at Intrepid Thea…
"I slept and was ashamed. I was quiet, I was tamed. / Then they came and stayed and helped me heal inside. / And though I had to learn once more to be a lion without a roar / It's not …
WEDS@7 concert, featuring pianist Aleck Karis 7 p.m. Wednesday. Conrad Prebys Concert Hall,UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla. $10-15; free student rush (one hour before concert).(…
Lady Gaga has announced she'll be performing at the 2017 Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 5. At 5 p.m. Thursday, the pop and jazz vocal star tweeted:Â It's not an illusion. The rumors are…
This weekend, Coronado Playhouse is making its production of "Seussical The Musical" extra-welcoming for fans whose opportunities to see plays can sometimes be limited. The theater is off…
Cloistered away from the unmannered clamor of downtown crowds and traffic, three men sit in elegant repose on the stage of the Horton Grand Theatre, sipping tea and talking (probably) Proust…
It's been a long road for Leo in "4000 Miles," a play whose title refers (in part) to a cross-country bike ride that put this free-spirited young wanderer in the path of immense tragedy. His…
Fox Searchlight Pictures has announced it will team up with various theater chains and voter organizations to launch a voter registration drive tied to the release of its upcoming slave-revo…
There are easier places to get into the water than the boulder-strewn cove tucked just south of Pacific Beach Point. But this is playwright Mike Lew's favorite surf break " and anyway,…
Mel Brooks' 2001 musical "The Producers" is a big, bawdy tribute to the glitz of old Broadway. So when a real-life producer takes the risk of staging this large-scale show, it re…
King Hedley II: The name evokes nobility, history, heritage, a certain majesty. As the title of a play, it also hints at the sweeping sagas of William Shakespeare " the royal sto…
Van Morrison, Hubert Laws, Don Was and Jamie Cullum are just a few of the luminaries who sing the praises of former San Diego State University-student-turned-Grammy-Award-winning singe…
People who make musicals like to talk of the "I want" song " a crucial first-act number that lays bare the hero's overriding desire to find a better life, a higher purpose. In essen…
Here's to Herbert Siguenza for president. He can even keep wearing the dress. The playwright and actor, who portrays a cleverly meddlesome maid in his new play "Manifest Destinitis," may …
He's been a star of the biggest show on Broadway;Â now Leslie Odom Jr. will headline the biggest fund-raiser of the year at the Old Globe. The former "Hamilton" star (and 2016 Tony Award-w…
The Old Globe Theatre announced Monday that Steve Martin's world-premiere comedy "Meteor Shower" set an all-time box-office record in the theater's in-the-round performance space. (Rea…
Something awesome this way comes in Jiehae Park's "peerless": college acceptance letters that fall from the sky. (But you might not want to know what the kids in this darkly comic riff on "M…
Steve Martin's "Meteor Shower"Â turned out to be a gift from the heavens for the Old Globe: The play, which closed Sunday, has set an all-time sales record for the theater's second perform…
San Diego Musical Theatre is rolling out a 2017 season that includes three regional-premiere musicals, two world-premiere projects and the company's first foray into producing in two thea…
It's tempting to say Cashae Monya has come full circle by joining the cast of the world-premiere La Jolla Playhouse musical "Miss You Like Hell." But Monya probably wouldn't strike you as so…
If the compulsion to write plays qualifies as a medical condition, please keep any cure far, far away from Herbert Siguenza.
It's fitting (for reasons beyond the title) that the people in "The Cocktail Hour" exist in a more or less pickled state.
A hearing had been scheduled for Monday in Los Angeles on Homer H. Hickam Jr.'s request that he be erased from the Old Globe musical "October Sky" " a show whose main character is Hickam him…
hen Homer H. Hickam Jr. and his friends looked to the sky with a gleam in their eyes and a few homemade rockets in their kit bags back in the 1950s, they weren't necessarily trying to change…
La Jolla Playhouse audiences will get a look at Donald Trump through the eyes of another provocative (and controversial) public figure, as the theater presents a special engagement of Mike D…