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…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:57AM[SHARE]ATTEND THIS TALE: IT'S MURDER Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a musical filled with gore, brutality, hate, and vengeance. But the show, as composed by the great Stephen Son…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:57PM[SHARE]DRAC-OOH-LA-LA The play Dracula, in its West Coast premiere at the Old Globe is subtitled A Comedy of Terrors. It's unlikely that viewers will be terrified by the show, but as for "Comedy," …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:27AM[SHARE]THE IMPORTANCE OF SEEING THIS IMPORTANCE Is there a funnier comedy in the English language than Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest? Since it opened in London in 1895 the play has …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]BOY, OH JERSEY BOY, IS THIS SHOW EVER GREAT In 2004, a new musical called Jersey Boys quietly debuted at the La Jolla Playhouse. It transferred to Broadway the next year, running for 12 year…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]A BRIDGE TO GREAT THEATER Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge may be a small play physically, with a single drab set and just five significant characters. But it builds from a sympathetic…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:50PM[SHARE]DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO THE PLOT, AND YOU'LL HAVE A BLAST In 1973, a rock musical called The Rocky Horror Show opened in London and ran until 1980 as other productions of the show blossomed t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:54PM[SHARE]ALL ABOARD FOR MURDEROUS FUN Agatha Christie fans rejoice! There is a new Christie adventure in a terrific production at The Old Globe, a novel/play hybrid of one of the Dame's most popular …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]DRAGTACULAR Velour at the La Jolla Playhouse subtitles itself "A Drag Extravaganza" and for 105 uninterrupted minutes it validates the label with a smorgasbord of song, dance, film, projecti…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:11PM[SHARE]The Coronado Playhouse is currently presenting Exit, Pursued by a Bear, a one-act 80-minute play by American dramatist Lauren Gundersen. who is one of the most successful writers on the Amer…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:27PM[SHARE]YOU CAN GO HOLMES AGAIN! The world obviously cannot get enough of Sherlock Holmes. Since the first story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle appeared in 1887, the immortal fictional private detective …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]LONG MAY THIS PRODUCTION REIGN Since its first production opened in Balboa Park in 1935, the Old Globe Theatre has built a national reputation for ambitious and stimulating productions, but …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:29PM[SHARE]DON'T BOTHER FOR DINNER The North Coast Repertory Theater is offering two hours of exceedingly lightweight summer theater in the French farce Don't Dress for Dinner. And being a typical Fren…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]ROB MCCLURE IS ON FIRE AS MRS. DOUBTFIRE Mrs. Doubtfire started its theatrical life as the hit 1993 film starring Robin Williams. As happens so often with hit movies, it was adapted into a s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:07PM[SHARE]A BRIEF SHINING MOMENT AT NORTH COAST REP Sometimes less can be more in the arts. Consider the Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot. The show set a record for the biggest advance sale in Broadwa…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:58PM[SHARE]FAT HAM HATH POWER TO ASSUME A PLEASING SHAPE American playwright James Ijames has written a funny and thoughtful play based on the Shakespeare tragedy Hamlet. The work carries the unlikely …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:48AM[SHARE]JUST A SENSE The North Coast Repertory Theatre is currently presenting the world premiere of Sense of Decency, a psychological drama adapted from a 2013 book by American author Jake El-Hai t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:45AM[SHARE]GREAT COMET! Who would have thought that a paltry 70 pages from a mammoth novel by 19th-century Russian author Leo Tolstoy would inspire one of the hits of the recent off-Broadway and Broadw…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:38AM[SHARE]RIDE ON! Annie Cohen Kopchovsky was a late 19th-century young English working-class woman who wanted to upgrade her life. So she tried to earn money and recognition as well as elevating her …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:16AM[SHARE]WINNING ASSIST Big hits can come in small packages. The wonderful production of King James " which opened last night at the Old Globe Theatre " has only two characters and runs only about 1 …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:57AM[SHARE]NORTH COAST REP DOESN'T JUST HEIGHTEN TARTUFFE, IT LEVITATES IT Let's not bandy words. The North Coast Repertory Theatre revival of Molière's comedy Tartuffe is a brilliant success. The pro…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:48PM[SHARE]IF YOU WANNA BE STARTIN' SOMETHIN', COME FOR THE MUSIC AND DANCE The musical biography of Michael Jackson (tersely titled MJ) is playing a brief one-week run at the San Diego Civic Theatre a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:24PM[SHARE]ALL THAT JAZZ AND MORE The national tour of Chicago at the San Diego Civic Theater " now through Sunday " reaffirms what generations of theater fans have recognized. This musical ranks among…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:46AM[SHARE]THE HOUR HAS COME The Trinity Theatre in Mission Valley is currently presenting a too-brief revival of A. G. Gurney's comedy-drama The Cocktail Hour. The show originally debuted in 1988 at S…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]THE THREADS THAT BREAK The African-American playwright Lynn Nottage sits atop the honor role of American playwrights from the first two decades of the 21st century " she has written a dozen …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:42PM[SHARE]I WISH I COULD SAY "NO BAD NEWS" BUT… The large opening night audience at the San Diego Civic Theatre last night seemed to be having a good time watching the the musical revival of The Wiz…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:20PM[SHARE]A REALLY BIG SHOW The San Diego area does not lack for productions of A Christmas Carol this holiday season. Fortunately, fans of the Charles Dickens classic who would welcome a more hip ver…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:25AM[SHARE]SOMEONE MUST HAVE CLIPPED THE WINGS, BECAUSE THIS ANGEL DOESN'T FLY There are times when a reviewer is tempted to recuse himself (or herself) from publicly commenting on a comedy because he/…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:43PM[SHARE]PERFECTLY MARVELOUS Cabaret is a masterpiece of American musical theater that has been presented in a vast variety of musical and physical shapes and sizes since its premiere on Broadway in …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:30AM[SHARE]EVITA IS SURPRISINGLY GOOD FOR YOU The Cygnet Theatre revival of the musical Evita has already been extended to October 1, 2023, due to positive ticket buyer interest. Cygnet visitors should…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:26AM[SHARE]THE WEARYING WIVES OF WINDSOR Scholars generally believe that William Shakespeare wrote about 38 plays. And those scholars likely would rank the comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor at or close…
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