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Hit musical about founding father set for Broadway's big party.
La Jolla Festival of the Arts is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a new name and a new location.
Demarre McGill, who left five years ago to join the Seattle Symphony and is now the principal flutist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, is coming back for a special performance with the gr…
The nun-based musical "Sister Act" just seems to have a way (note we resisted saying "habit") of following Steve Glaudini around. Glaudini, now the producing artistic director of Moonlight S…
There are actually two balconies in William Gibson's 2003 play about the late Israeli leader Golda Meir. But for Rosina Reynolds, who plays Meir in New Village Arts' just-opened staging of "…
How and when did you first encounter Intrepid?
Some young theater companies burst onto the stage scene in a roil of raw ambition and energy. But Intrepid Theatre " as has become its style " did things a little differently. Seven years ag…
North Coast's reimagined Ibsen classic mines dark humor in script
The Second City will make its first return to San Diego since 2014 this summer, when it brings its election-themed show "Free Speech! (While Supplies Last)" to La Jolla Playhouse.
Disney musical's thrilling dance numbers, scenic design make up for weak spots in score, script
The name Henrik Ibsen means a lot in the theater world; what it usually does not mean is "box-office gold." So David Ellenstein was more than a little surprised back in 2010 when his North C…
A conductor, arranger and orchestrator who directed many of San Diego's notable vocal ensembles, Christopher Allen had a talent for achieving choral excellence. Performing sacred music was a…
Musical-theater performers from CCA, SCPA punch tickets to New York for nationals.
Don't let the in-your-face title fool you. Aaron Posner's hilarious and heartbreaking riff on "The Seagull" offers an affecting and affectionate update of Chekhov's 1896 breakthrough play. F…
Musical saga proves insightful and inspiring.
If streets have feelings (and egos), 41st and 43rd must be crying their asphalts off about now. The movie and musical "42nd Street" have long given that stretch of pavement at the heart of M…
New stage adaptation at Disney California Adventure theme park adds heart, dazzle to story
Summer is the season for musicals, and San Diego's theater outlook doesn't disappoint, with a full slate of song-filled shows. But plenty of promising nonmusical plays are on the way, too, i…
It's no secret that two of the top graduate theater programs in the country are situated here in San Diego. But a new survey from The Hollywood Reporter reaffirms not just the national but t…
Sent onstage with those famous words, "You're going out there a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!," the upstart Peggy Sawyer gets her big Broadway break in what might be the ult…
Old Globe stages worthy West Coast premiere of fact-based play.
There's a line the sushi chef Koji utters in "tokyo fish story" that strives to capture the fleeting achievement of his culinary art."A glistening, edible moment," Koji calls his creations, …
The law wasn't all that interested in finding out who killed the film director William Desmond Taylor back in 1922. Neither, in a way, is the new La Jolla Playhouse show about the notorious …
Nearly a dozen San Diego County arts and culture groups have earned grants in the latest round of funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA awarded a total of $258,000 to the…
The latest edition of the Ben Vereen Awards will see 20 student actors from 10 San Diego County high schools competing for a chance to head to New York. The awards, named for the Tony Award-…
