Posts by Mark Burgess

This World Premier sparkles with a wit and an engaging cleverness delivered with spot on casting in perfect timing that carries you through a good story.

For an audience welcoming all that is modern culture and looking to laugh, this production is a joy, delivered in San Diego’s own park of fancy and marvels on the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Stage.

The Old Globe’s “Taming of the Shrew” is a roaring romantic good time – with actors, able comic actors all, amplifying whatever ribaldry and comedy Shakespeare left open in the text, but serving a sincere and moving portrait of the genuine joining of two souls.

Love Shakespeare’s Hamlet? Hate it? Never seen or read it? If you enjoy live theater, go see “I Hate Hamlet”, prepare to laugh and maybe reflect a little on life.

The military focused on a population of over 100,000 Japanese to parse out of the their lives and plant them in desert camps.  Playwright and San Diego resident Roy Sekigahama skipped past the politics to focus on relationships.