Posts by Bill Eadie
National Audience Survey Highlights San Diego’s Resilience
Theatre makers from all over the country are wondering, “when can the audiences come back?” San Diego theatre companies so far have a variety of answers to that question, most of them tentative.
Read More‘A Kind of Weather’ Launches Three-Play ‘Gender Series’
A Kind of Weather plumbs the depths of how a cis-gender father adapts when his trans son is what’s left of his life. The 90-minute, no intermission, production thoughtfully presents characters winding their way through relationships they want to be intimate…
Read MorePlaywright Lauren Yee ‘Having a Moment’ at Cygnet
Lauren Yee is having a moment in San Diego theatre…
Read MoreLamb’s ‘Feast’ a Gift of Grace to Audiences
Lamb’s Players Theatre loves a good story – and they’ve been specializing in dramatizing them since their early days as a company. They’ve found another one to tell, and the result is a veritable banquet for the imagination and the soul…
Read MoreScripps Ranch Cast Loves ‘Not Wisely But Too Well’ in Shanley Play
Given societal changes, it would take a good deal of finesse to make “Italian American Reconciliation” work as a contemporary story. The Scripps Ranch production hadn’t found that finesse as of opening night.
Read MoreA Decade of Theatre in San Diego
January 1, 2020, marks the start of a new decade. Looking back, I notice that I have been reviewing theatre in San Diego for more than ten years. It seems appropriate to consult what I’ve written and see, what has changed about San Diego theatre. So, instead of summarizing 2019, I’m returning to 2010 and working my way forward to the present.
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