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From the moment Cygnet Theatre moved into its present digs eight years ago, the Old Town company has been big on Stephen Sondheim.But never before has Cygnet done a production of Sondheim (o…
Baseball all-stars don't get much starrier than Ted Williams: The late San Diego native and prodigious hitter still holds or shares seven single-game and career records in Major League Baseb…
Fourth-annual San Diego theater/dance festival dramatically increased sales, scale
The Old Globe is fast becoming the official regional branch office for Steve Martin's playwriting exploits. So it just kind of makes sense for the writer-musician-comic to bring in a star of…
The Circus Collective of San Diego is a troupe of aerialists, acrobats, singers, musicians and other circus performers bringing the big top to the stage.
Light. Balance. Tension. Harmony. Those help compose the litany of artistic principles the painter Georges Seurat recites as bookends to the musical "Sunday in the Park With George." Eleganc…
Reviews of 'Bedrooms & Boyfriends,' 'Eleanor's Story,' 'The Biscuiteater' and 'I Can't Tell You'
Fest closes this weekend; Family Fringe is today.
Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" is a story of people who manage to make a virtue of deprivation. So, in a way, is the tale of how a musical came to be made from the novel.
At 55, the Culture Club singer is finally feeling grounded. H and the band perform Saturday in Baja.
The Old Globe Theatre's upcoming production of the movie-based musical "October Sky" has been pulled into the orbit of a $20 million lawsuit brought by the man at the center of the show's re…
The Jimmy Buffett musical that's headed to La Jolla Playhouse next year now has an official title " and you will not be shocked to learn it involves a certain frosty beverage.
Toil and trouble don't simply bubble in the Old Globe's bracing new staging of "Macbeth": They detonate like a succession of grenades. Even the words of the play's famous witches come out da…
Before Jeff Augustin puts the first words of a play on the page, he sends a little song out into the universe. "It's always the same (melody). I don't know why. But it's as if I'm conjuring.…
The San Diego International Fringe Festival kicks off this week with some 90 shows that will unfold over the festival's two-week run, totaling more than 400 performances at 17 venues around …
Tickets for Steve Martin play available this Friday
Summing up the whole of world drama when you're an upstart theater company that's just gone pro? Nothing like starting small.
Even if you don't agree that disco is, in fact, the eighth deadly sin, you've got to admit it has done some unholy things in the name of music. (Two words: "Funky Town.") So it's satisfying …
The Old Globe Theatre-bred musical "Bright Star" is blinking out on Broadway. Lead producer Joey Parnes announced Tuesday that the bluegrass-laced show, created by the actor-writer-musician …
In "Lydia," a mystery woman with seemingly magical powers drops into a family home and utterly transforms the lives of those inside. As lyrical as Octavio Solis' play can be, though, "Mary P…
It's a new record!
Hillcrest theater staging San Diego premiere of Octavio Solis play
Some 25,000 years ago, an advancing glacier carved out the terrain that would one day become New York City. After that, not a whole lot happened in Manhattan until Aug. 6, 2015, when "Hamilt…
The tragedy of "Macbeth" begins with the witches " those three "weird sisters" whose utterances foretell (or do they compel?) the title character's murderous rise to power. And any productio…
Tour of smash-hit Broadway musical will hit town in 2017-18 season
