Posts by Welton Jones
Partners Bloom Inside the Old Globe’s ‘Dog and Pony Show’
Creative partners can’t help messing with each other’s personal lives in the new Rick Elice/Michael Patrick Walker musical ‘Dog and Pony Show’ at the Old Globe Theatre. Director Roger Rees and a dynamite cast make it a real charmer.
Read MoreTwelfth Night Goes Navy at Hotel Del for Lamb’s Players
Twelfth Night lands in the Hotel del Coronado around 1949 and all is intact, especially the songs.
Read More!#*!&@ The Book of Mormon at Civic Theatre
If you’re shopping for a devastating satirical assault on the Mormon religion, the loud and flashy show now at the Civic Theatre, The Book of Mormon, is not it.
Read MoreDurang Herds VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE Onto Old Globe Stage
Chekhov characters need stuff too and, for the Old Globe Theatre, Christopher Durang checks in on their modern inheritors’ yearning up there in Bucks County. Sample dialogue: “Why is he always taking off his clothes?” “Because he can.”
Read MorePeriod Family Savagery in Old Globe’s Time and the Conways
Tennessee Williams may have learned much from this castrating mother. Under the banner of protection, she smothers; her rigid rankings allow no appeal. Williams reduced the cast and milked the subtleties more precisely but Priestley’s creation is just as brutal and even more clueless. Her smug cruelty is breath-catching, the monstrous consequences all too sadly foretold.
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Where’s the Dignity In Surrender?
San Diego Opera Belongs to Us All
Ian Campbell, like King Louis XV of France, seems to see no possibility of a successful successor. How did that work out, Louie?
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