Posts by Bill Eadie
Circle Mirror Transformation Proves a Good Fit at NVA
Annie Baker is a youngish playwright whose work focuses on the byways and mores of rural New England. Probably her most well-known play is Circle Mirror Transformation, an ensemble piece about a small group of people who are taking a six-week theatre workshop at the community center in a Vermont town. When I first read about this play, I immediately thought that New Village Arts in Carlsbad was the perfect local company to stage it. My wish has come true: NVA has mounted a bang-up San Diego premiere that runs through March 2.
Read MoreIntrepid’s Macbeth an Unlucky Number 13
Macbeth lacks a core, which leaves a bunch of artists looking around for how they can fill a center-less space.
Read MorePerlman Dazzles as Symphony Soloist
Pro basketball hall of famer Bill Walton may have been the tallest man at San Diego’s Jacobs Music Center – Copley Symphony Hall on Saturday night, but he was not the biggest. Instead, it was legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman who was the evening’s star attraction, dazzling concertgoers young and old, short and (very) tall with the first of two masterful weekend performances of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61.
Read MoreA Solidly Entertaining Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast is a solid, highly enjoyable show that features the work of the original Broadway creative team. It performs at the Civic Theatre through Sunday under the auspices of Broadway/San Diego
Read MoreWelk’s Anything Goes Taps Its Way Into Audience Hearts
It’s 2014, the start of a new theatre year, and the Welk Theatre San Diego starts the new season off right with a scrumptious production of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes as the dessert for its buffet lunch or dinner.
Read MoreBoos and Bravos for 2013
At the end of our first full year of operation we thought it would be fun to provide a look back and some of the high and low-lights of the past year.
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