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Epic Disney musical shines in its third visit to San Diego
The Old Globe will open its 2017 summer season with one of the most beloved (and produced) shows in the musical-theater canon. The Balboa Park theater is announcing today that it will stage …
That freaky and funny family from Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons (and the subsequent TV show) will be getting its songs on at Moonlight.
A lot of what you need to know about Jiehae Park's "peerless" might be summed up by the name originally bestowed on the play: "Untitled High School Macbeth."
After an 11-year Broadway run, the La Jolla Playhouse-born musical "Jersey Boys" is about to see its final season.
Is "Sweet Charity" a (head) trip back to the swingin' 1960s? You bet your sweet bippy, as they used to say on a certain vintage TV show.
A piece that premiered in La Jolla Playhouse's 2015 Without Walls Festival will get its own showcase as the theater's next stand-alone WoW production. The theater has announced that Keith A.…
When Mike Lew touched down at college after graduating from La Jolla High in 1999, he also arrived at a revelation: Theater was not so very different from the science disciplines he'd been s…
The best things happening in San Diego Sept. 2 to 4
The distinguished San Diego actor-director Rosina Reynolds stages NCRT's revival of the comedy of manners by that bard of upper-crusty Yanks, A.R. Gurney.
The stylistically diverse band from Miami will release a live album in October and a new studio album in April
hen "The Lion King" rolls into the San Diego Civic Theatre next week for the hit Disney show's first local visit since 2009, it'll be arriving with a favorite son. (And no, we're not talking…
Lamb's Players Theatre is rolling out a lineup of new plays and returning favorites for the company's 2017 season at its home theater in Coronado.
You almost want to believe the Emcee in "Cabaret" when he chirps, "We have no troubles here." Almost.
The free Saturday fete will feature an array of musical talent, including Grammy-winner Poncho Sanchez and his band
ernadette Peters knows a little something about symphonies. Bernadette knows Broadway, too. Those two paths converge this weekend as she performs with conductor Matthew Garbutt and the San D…
"Love's Labor's Lost" shines in "emotionally rich" production at the Old Globe
Before directing hits such as "Old School" and the "Hangover" trilogy, Todd Phillips made a name for himself with "Frat House," a documentary about hazing. It's safe to say that he knows bro…
Moonlight's huge production features fine corps of male singers
Lead actors are filling some big shoes as the revived 'Cabaret' tours the nation
La Jolla Playhouse-born musical inspired by events on 9/11
Small but lively production honors musical's roots but modernizes its characters
Historian Elizabeth Cobbs writes novel about Alexander Hamilton
Broadway doubters never thought "Titanic: The Musical" would get launched, let alone stay afloat. But launch it did in 1997, running two years and nabbing five Tony Awards before it closed a…
A longtime leader and guiding force at the Old Globe Theatre is departing after 13 years, the Balboa Park institution announced Monday. Michael G. Murphy, the theater's managing director, is…
