Cassiopeia Guthrie – San Diego Story

Here There Are Blueberries explores the chilling layers of the perpetrators of Auschwitz

By Cassiopeia Guthrie | August 10, 2022 |

Frances Uku, Scott Barrow and Charles Browning in La Jolla Playhouse and Tectonic Theater Project’s world-premiere production of Here There Are Blueberries; photo by Rich Soublet II.

“I know I couldn’t have been a Mengele… or a Höcker… but could I have been a Helferinnen?” The audience leaves asking themselves that same question of complicity following La Jolla Playhouse’s world premiere Here There Are Blueberries, running through August 21.

A RomCom by Any Other Name… Wouldn’t Be Pretty Woman

By Cassiopeia Guthrie | July 31, 2022 |

The cast poses in Pretty Woman: The Musical.

Nostalgia is the name of the game in Pretty Woman: The Musical, playing a one-week run at Broadway San Diego’s Civic Theater from July 26-31, 2022. This production by Grammy winner Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, with book by movie director and screenwriter Gerry Marshall and J. F. Lawton, is exactly what it sounds like: a faithful adaptation of a cherished romcom.