Posts by Bill Eadie
SD Rep’s ‘Mother Road’ Provides an Auspicious Return to Live Theatre
Octavio Solis has written Mother Road, now playing at the San Diego Repertory Theatre, as a reversal on John Steinbeck’s classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath. Where Steinbeck’s novel portrays the Joad family leaving Oklahoma for the hope of a better life, Mother Road takes the trip in reverse…
Read MoreLamb’s Cynthia Gerber is a ‘Belle’ as Emily Dickinson
It takes an experienced performer to hold the stage for the 100-minute run time, maintain audience interest, and still capture the profound sadness that Ms. Dickinson experienced during her life. Cynthia Gerber is such a performer…
Read More‘One in Two’ Keeps It Honest at Diversionary
Donja Love’s play, One in Two, intends to be disturbing – and it is…
Read MoreGood and Evil Get Confused in Moxie’s ‘The Mineola Twins’
Paula Vogel’s play, The Mineola Twins, imagines that identical twins can grow up different in one way: one’s stance on social and political issues is liberal, and the other’s is conservative…
Read More‘The Garden’ Begins Abbreviated Season at La Jolla Playhouse
La Jolla Playhouse has enjoyed an ongoing relationship with Charlayne Woodard, both as an actor and as a playwright. Her new play, as both playwright and actor,…is a layered beauty hiding in a deceptively simple premise.
Read MoreInspired by but Not About: The Old Globe’s ‘Gardens of Anuncia’
Michael John LaChiusa’s musical is not about Graciela Daniele per se. Rather, it sketches a small-scale vision of big themes.
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