Thursday, May 7, 2026
MAN IN THE MIRROR, SHOW ON FIRE A dazzling tour delivers the spectacle and the moves, even if the storytelling stays surface-level The national touring production of MJ the Musical is comple…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 28, 2026
A NICE JEWISH BOY— OR IS HE? Plenty of laughs and genuine feeling power this crowd-pleasing production Sarah Goldman is a young Jewish Chicago teacher in the late 1900s. Her boyfriend is a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:57AM[SHARE]Friday, April 24, 2026
FENCED IN AND LASHING OUT A powerful touring revival of August Wilson’s enduring drama The Old Globe Theatre is presenting August Wilson’s 1987 drama Fences, part of his cycle of plays a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:30PM[SHARE]Monday, April 20, 2026
NO SNOOZE BUTTON HERE Coronado’s Drowsy Chaperone keeps the laughs coming The Coronado Playhouse is reviving the musical comedy The Drowsy Chaperone, hoping to repeat the popularity of the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:08PM[SHARE]Friday, April 17, 2026
LOVE, LOSS, AND LYRICS An earnest musical adaptation that leans into memory, even when it leans too hard The touring production of The Notebook arrives at the Civic Theatre with a built-in a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2026
BEAUTIFUL, BORED, AND BENT ON DESTRUCTION A brisk new adaptation of Ibsen's classic showcases Katie Holmes's ferocious Hedda"while questioning the modern impulse to excuse her behavior The O…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2026
THREE FELLAS, TWO DAMES, ONE BIRD, AND A LOT OF DOUBLE-CROSSING North Coast Rep's five-actor adaptation of The Maltese Falcon mixes mystery with nimble theatrical trickery The North Coast Re…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2026
A SCRIVENER WHO PREFERS NOT TO A minimalist Melville adaptation turns quiet resistance into compelling theater Andy Grotelueschen as The Lawyer and Michael Crane as Bartleby Fiasco Theater i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:40PM[SHARE]Friday, February 27, 2026
A LATINO MUSICAL ODYSSEY INSPIRED BY IMMIGRATION AND THE WIZARD OF OZ A heartfelt journey centered on resilience, with fantasy touches along the way The Cygnet Theatre is presenting the loca…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 24, 2026
A WORLD PREMIERE CHARTING JULIA CHILD'S RISE FROM RESTLESSNESS TO CULINARY ICON A biographical play that finds its flavor in a stronger, more compelling second act The La Jolla Playhouse is …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 26, 2025
SUN, SAND & SCROOGE, DICKENS IN THE GASLAMP The Old Globe is presenting Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, reshaping the classic short novel into a parody titled Ebenezer Scrooge's BIG …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2025
RICHARD BERMUDEZ SLAYS TWICE IN SDMT'S JEKYLL & HYDE San Diego Musical Theatre is presenting a gripping revival of the 1997 Broadway musical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 h…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:37PM[SHARE]DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT SKIPPIN' PIPPIN Pippin offers musical theater lovers the complete package: brilliant performances, terrific directing, a stimulating book by Roger O. Hirson and a chee…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 17, 2025
In the 1940s, Hollywood seemed awash in films that can be grouped as psychological thrillers. There were variations on the plot, but essentially the films all portrayed a sheltered and sensi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2025
GO-GO SEE THIS SHOW-SHOW The jukebox musical Head Over Heels is a mash-up of Sir Philip Sidney's long 1590s poem Arcadia and the songs of the iconic 1980s' female rock band The Go-Go's, t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:44PM[SHARE]Friday, August 8, 2025
TWINS, TWISTS, AND A TENDER TOUCH The Old Globe Theatre closes out its summer Shakespeare Festival at the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre in Balboa Park with a zippy 90-minute one-act…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:33PM[SHARE]Friday, July 25, 2025
NOISES OFF, LAUGHS ON English playwright Michael Frayn debuted his farce Noises Off in 1982, and decades of audiences and reviewers have since happily applauded Frayn's work as perhaps the f…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 22, 2025
MURDER MOST TUNEFUL In 2013 a new musical called A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder played San Diego's Old Globe on its way to a prizewinning run on Broadway. The show is now back for …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:43AM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2025
The Old Globe Theatre is opening its summer Shakespeare season with the comedy All's Well That Ends Well, one of the Bard's least presented (and least admired) works. Completists who wish to…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2025
NINETY YEARS IN NINETY MINUTES Playwright Noah Haidel compresses 90 years of story into his 90-minute one-act comedy-drama Birthday Candles at North Coast Rep. However, that's sufficient tim…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Coronado Playhouse is reviving the 2007 musical comedy/murder mystery Curtains through March 30. The show is the final collaboration of the great music theater team of composer John Kander a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:29AM[SHARE]Monday, March 10, 2025
A HOUSE DIVIDED, A MUSICAL UNITED La Jolla Playhouse has struck gold with 3 Summers of Lincoln, a bold world premiere musical that dives into the three critical summers"1862, 1863, and 1864"…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:01PM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2025
LEARNING HOW TO SURVIVE IN THE DESERT Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities"which opened at Cygnet Theatre last weekend"portrays about 24 hours in the upscale home of the Wyeth home in Palm …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 2, 2025
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past? Â Â " John Leonard, American critic Appropriate won Branden Jacobs-Jenkins the 2024 Tony Award for Best Rev…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2025
ONCEÂ UPON AN AMAZING TIME Once is back at the Lamb's Players Theatre for an extended run through March 30, glorious news for area playgoers. This is one of the must-see musicals of the ea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2025
NO ONE EATS, BUT THERE'S PLENTY TO CHEW ON IN THE DETERMINEDLY DECEPTIVE BARBECUE Robert O'Hara has been a significant contributor to the American theater scene since his first play debuted …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Two young women, one from Korea, the other from the Philippines, encounter one another in a grocery story on Thanksgiving morning in a small midwestern American city in 1973. Luna, the talka…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2024
ACTORS LOOKING FOR WORK: GOD BLESS THEM, EVERYONE! La Jolla Playhouse is presenting the world premiere of a play for the holiday season, and beyond, with the extensively titled Your Local Th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 14, 2024
YOU'LL BE GRINCHING FROM EAR TO EAR For the 27th year The Old Globe is presenting its hit musical Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, continuing its position as one of t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2024
INCIDENT AT NORTH COAST REP IS ANOTHER IN A LINE OF HITS THAT NEED NO HELP Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a nostalgic domestic comedy drama now on view in an illuminating and high…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2024
THIS IS GREAT THEATER. TRUST ME. Reviewers across the country have honored the 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Primary Trust with many positive adjectives, like "touching" and "deeply affe…
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