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Free Shakespeare events set for next Saturday in Balboa Park
Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey was chatting with her dad at the family farmhouse south of Stockholm, Sweden, one day when he happened to mention that, by the way, he had once dined with Marlene…
Backyard Renaissance and Oceanside theater troupes co-produce well-performed staging in Oceanside
Mark Twain-inspired musical the biggest show in Carlsbad theater's history
The Old Globe Theatre has landed its cast for the local premiere of "tokyo fish story," Kimber Lee's restaurant-set play.
Jon Lonoff's 2003 off-Broadway comedy centers on Maureen, a dental hygienist and woman of substance who finds herself on a blind date with a highly unfiltered guy named Joe.
Even for a play about parallel universes, "Constellations" bears some striking parallels to the lives of the people who are putting up its West Coast premiere at the Old Globe Theatre.
When the David Lynch film "The Elephant Man" came out in 1980, it showcased the actor John Hurt in elaborate, realistic makeup as the deformed title character. But the Bernard Pomerance play…
Tony award-winning actor, singer and dancer performs favorite Broadway standards with San Diego Symphony.
The Old Globe's world-premiere musical "Rain," with a rich and distinctively textured score by Michael John LaChiusa, stays faithful to writer W. Somerset Maugham's idea of the fine (and pot…
Polling at community forum shows ticket-buyers support company's reinvention
In 1985, the musical adaptation of Mark Twain's epic "Huckleberry Finn" saga became the first show to go from La Jolla Playhouse to Broadway. Now "Big River" comes home again (or close to it…
Check out our guide to two very different musicals with the same name.
A Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse returnee and several top local actors are part of the just-announced cast for the theater's world-premiere play "Hollywood." The season-opening piece,…
A name like "Rain" can come off as deeply metaphorical, stirring ideas of stormy emotions, looming danger, maybe the release of pent-up longings and passions. And then there's that matter of…
The Old Globe Theatre has had its head in the heavens lately, what with the world premiere of Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's "Bright Star" (which just opened on Broadway) and upcoming prod…
A year and a half after its world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre, the Steve Martin/Edie Brickell musical "Bright Star" rises on Broadway tonight. The show, which debuted at the Globe in t…
New Village Arts Theatre is taking cues from this very lively election year to roll out a season lineup it's billing as "The American Experience." The 2016-17 season, the Carlsbad company's …
At the moviehouse, shouting lines at the screen is just part of the "Rocky Horror" experience. In live theater, "Rocky" talks back " comically, provocatively and with a whole lot of fab atti…
First things first: Don't get caught in the wrong "Rain." This week, the Old Globe Theatre begins performances of its world-premiere musical by that name. But over at the Balboa Theatre, ano…
Eden Espinosa is a New Yorker now, but the singer-actor and Broadway veteran grew up as a Southern California gal. In all her many childhood trips from the family home in Anaheim to San Dieg…
Our spring theater picks start off with a new musical that seems tailor-made for these El Niño-ized times, and wrap with a couple of sunny, song-filled shows that will take us right to th…
John Leguizamo's new La Jolla Playhouse solo show is called "Latin History for Dummies," and it's a mashup of history, comedy and its creator's singular strain of playful provocation. The wo…
If you've witnessed Bryan Barbarin onstage in one of the two dozen or so shows he has done at Lamb's Players and other local companies, you won't soon forget his rich, resonant, rattle-the-h…
Four-night listening tour will invite San Diegans to help chart company's future
