Among the ghosts roaming the battered streets of post-invasion Baghdad is the late tiger exhibit at the zoo, in Rajiv Joseph's surreal play now at the Ion Theatre. It's a double triumph for actor/director Claudio Raygoza and the make-believe marines look and act like the real thing...

Though Edward Albee’s “Seascape” is a Pulitzer Prize winning play (1975) it is nowhere near as well known as his most popular classic, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf.”

San Diego’s Mainly Mozart Festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary this season by inaugurating new series and expanding the concept of what a music festival can do. At La Jolla's TSRI Auditorium, the festival presented a pair of stimulating lectures in its new Mozart and the Mind series and offered a stirring concert by the St. Lawrence String Quartet.

Time travel is usually the province of science fiction, but Ruben Valenzuela and his excellent period music cohorts of the BachCollegium San Diego took his La Jolla audience to 17th-century Venice with his Marian Vespers concert.

There's nothing like a fatal plane crash to damage a bright new marriage. That's where Bekah Brunstetter sets her new "dramedy" for the Old Globe Theatre, Be a Good Little Widow. The lame title doesn't do justice to the quality of both play and production...