Posts by Martin Jones Westlin
The Good Outweighs the Bad in SD Rep’s ‘Outside Mullingar’
Ireland is more than the home of great writers and greater potatoes. To hear San Diego Repertory Theatre’s decent ‘Outside Mullingar’ tell it, it’s also a lovers paradise despite some pretty weighty odds.
Read MoreInspiration doesn’t hold up in Cygnet’s fair postdiluvian epic
Fish soup is a pretty good remedy for the rainy-day blues, especially when the storm may well be the last. In Cygnet Theatre’s murky ‘When the Rain Stops Falling,’ fish soup is all that’s on the menu — but an overwrought story relegates it to a household curiosity.
Read MoreScrooge Isn’t What He Should Be, but Cygnet’s ‘Carol’ Is a Lot of Fun
It’s better to give than to receive, and that holds for any time of year — but the Christmas season reflects that sentiment better than any other, and Cygnet’s fun ‘A Christmas Carol’ is a nice case in point.
Read MoreRep’s ‘Oldest Boy’ Has the Horses, but Sarah Ruhl Won’t Saddle Up
A cross-cultural marriage brings many angles with it, especially when the child is believed to be the reincarnation of a Buddhist master. Sarah Ruhl’s ‘The Oldest Boy,’ currently at San Diego Repertory Theatre, implies that the repercussions are staggering, but that’s as far as it goes.
Read More‘Beauty and the Beast’ Still Casts a Beauty of a Spell
‘Beauty and the Beast’ was first presented as a nursery rhyme in an 18th-century kids magazine — and just as the printed word enables the imagination, so to does it conspire to fuel an absolutely marveloous Broadway / San Diego entry at the Civic Theatre.
Read MoreA Most Unlikely Partnership Fuels ion’s Very Good ‘The Aliens’
It’s hard to be a person in today’s America, let alone grow up. The two young principals in Annie Baker’s ‘The Aliens,’ current entry at ion theater company’s BLK BOX, know this all too well — and ion and Baker join forces in a very good nod to everybody feeling the heat.
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