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But San Diego-bred show has left lasting legacy in musical theater.
Director, singers avoid melodrama in Puccini classic
Technically, it's a three-act play. For audiences and actors, though, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" goes all 15 brutal, knock-down rounds. That is emphatically, dramatically and pretty t…
Local stage artists weigh in on the status of companies and plays that explore the black experience
Two weekend events tie in with verse-centric play 'The Metromaniacs"
You wouldn't call "Guards at the Taj" bloodless, exactly " even without the puddles of crimson liquid the actors slosh and slip around in about halfway through Rajiv Joseph's play. But for m…
At the risk of telling a story so sweet it'll make your teeth throb, let's acknowledge a few dangerously adorable truths about the Old Globe's production of "The Last Match." First, two of t…
There are a few fresh twists to La Jolla Playhouse's DNA New Work Series, whose 2016 edition (kicking off Feb. 18) is the fourth go-round for this showcase of promising plays in development.
Intrepid's 'Quality of Life' joins Playhouse show among big winners at ceremony honoring local theater.
San Diego Musical Theatre revives affecting (though overambitious) musical in style.
It might be time the vice squad paid a little visit to the Old Globe: The place is crawling with people getting openly high on rhymes. Not just actors, either (what would you expect from the…
"Fiddler on the Roof" is enjoying a hit revival on Broadway just now (with University of California San Diego grad Danny Burstein as its star). But the Welk Resorts Theatre version should be…
India's greatest architectural landmark looms large in Rajiv Joseph's "Guards at the Taj" " and in the life of the playwright, too. Just ask Facebook. "Literally one year ago we were at the …
Untitled show, centered on singer-songwriter's music, will debut in 2017.
Live musical earns a well-deserved ratings success.
'Late Late Show' star and 2012 Tony-winner to head up June telecast.
Almost 20 years ago, Jay Donnell saw the musical "Ragtime" and, to hear him tell it, suddenly knew his place was on the stage instead of in the audience. Now Donnell is about to star as Coal…
"Outside Mullingar" is a play laced with misgivings and disappointments and the specter of death. And if San Diego Rep's production of the John Patrick Shanleypiece doesn't make you laugh ou…
It takes a pretty strong marriage to portray one that's sinking like a sabotaged battleship in a sea of gin and recriminations.But Robert Smyth and Deborah Gilmour Smyth, the married pair ab…
Eden Espinosa among Broadway regulars joining world-premiere musical.
Just-announced tour will start in California next year (but miss San Diego).
Old Town theater's seven-show 2016-17 season takes in three musicals.
There's poetry within the lines of "The Metromaniacs," and poetry within the minds of the verse-happy people who populate the play. So drenched, in fact, is this David Ives-adapted comedy in…
Headstrong heroes (and heroines) highlight Broadway/San Diego's just-announced lineup of touring musicals for 2016-17, with classic shows and a few newcomers all figuring into the mix for th…
Lineup of seven new works brings top playwrights (and notable returnees) to town.
