With a flimsy storyline amounting to little more than an evocation of the old Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland "Let's put on a show!" films of the '30s wrapped around a love story, "Crazy for You"…
The stars were out in force to salute Joni Mitchell in music and words at the two sold-out 75th birthday concerts in her honor last November at the Los Angeles Music Music Center. The second…
As the much-anticipated musical "Diana" nears its world premiere at San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse, director Christopher Ashley has had a chance to contemplate what things might be like for …
In the theater world, there's that magical phenomenon known as the "showmance" " a love affair that sparks when two people meet in a stage production. Of course, not all of those romances la…
As character names go, it's pretty tough to top the moniker Marvelous. And you won't get any argument from Cherene Snow, who plays the Zimbabwe-born American matriarch Marvelous Chinyaramwir…
Whatever else it accomplishes, Julia Cho's play "Aubergine" promises to give eggplant a good name. Or at least a better name than "eggplant." The more graceful term "aubergine" is the one th…
Sometimes there's a moment in a show that just begs to be anointed with that old cliche: "This is worth the price of the ticket by itself." And which moment is that in Lamb's Players Theatre…
In their new book "My Dear Hamilton," Laura Kamoie and co-author Stephanie Dray have painted a different picture of Elizabeth 'Eliza' Hamilton, wife of Alexander Hamilton, one of the foundin…
Big airs and Broadway are destined for a major duet, with a just-announced stage musical whose creative team includes North County's own skateboard deity Tony Hawk. The show is based on the …
The national touring production of "Hello, Dolly!" opened a six-day run at the San Diego Civic Theatre on Tuesday, which was the same day its original star, Carol Channing, passed away at ag…
You may not know this about Isabella Rossellini, but she is big in Borneo. Actually, strike that: She is a bug in Borneo. Specifically: Ptomaphaginus isabellarossellini, a species of beetle …
Talk about a rare find: As a play that focuses closely on older women, Grace McLeod's "Herland" almost qualifies as a theatrical unicorn. What's more remarkable is that McLeod herself is jus…
Warner Bros. and DC have joined forces to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Superman with a double-feature screening of previously released "The Death of Superman" (1992) and the premiere of…
There are three things in life that please Betty Buckley above all others. As it happens, cats don't make the cut. "The things I love most are music, theater and horses " not necessarily in …
San Diego's flagship theater " nationally renowned for its devotion to the works of Shakespeare " is rolling out a new professional training program aimed at keeping the Bard's legacy thrivi…
Like the hero of the megahit musical "Hamilton," Edred Utomi is young, scrappy and hungry " and now he has performed his way to the pinnacle of one of the biggest shows on the planet. Tonigh…
Lamb's Players Theatre has a knack for looking back: Five years ago, the company set a Guinness world record for nonstop live performance by staging a 100-hour reading of plays it had produc…
In its 34 years of staging contest-winning student works, the San Diego-based Playwrights Project had never before put up a fully produced musical for its annual Plays by Young Writers Festi…
If you thought last January's tour visit of the world-beating Broadway musical "Hamilton" was destined to steal the thunder of San Diego's theater year, our local stage scene stood ready and…
It was a year when a small Broadway musical " you know, "Hamilton" " found its way to a San Diego stage. A year when a San Diego author's debut novel landed on the New York Times best-seller…
It was a year when a small Broadway musical " you know, "Hamilton" " found its way to a San Diego stage. A year when a San Diego author's debut novel landed on the New York Times best-seller…
Is there a word for something more extra than extra? More over-the-top than over-the-top? More excessive than excessive? Here are two: Theatre Box. With its 60-ounce, bubbling cocktail goble…
So you've roasted all the chestnuts, decked all the halls and whipped up enough figgy pudding to feed a legion of carolers. But if you haven't seen any holiday theater yet, there's still tim…
New plays by both national talents and enterprising local community members will all be part of the celebration when the sixth edition of the Old Globe's Powers New Voices Festival gets unde…
The holidays bring more seasonally themed staged productions to San Diego theaters than you can shake a candy cane at. And along with those shows come a parade of characters both naughty and…