Posts by Welton Jones
Evita Revival Sounds Great But Really Misses Hal Prince
Evita remains a major work by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice but a touring revival 34 years later shows vividly how important Hal Prince’s staging was to the work’s theatricality. And it is NOT a roman!
Read MorePassion and Youth Connect Across the Centuries in Old Globe The Last Goodbye
The immortal tragedy of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is enriched with the songs of the late Jeff Buckley in The Last Goodbye at the Old Globe Theatre, a respectful but robust colabortion of youthful passion that connects across four centuries.
Read MoreThe Few Helps Misfits Reach Out in Tender Globe Production
It’s lonely out there on the Interstates and truck-drivers are like cowboys on an epic cattle dri/ve. Or sort of. They’re the same kind of lonely, as Samuel D. Hunter shows in his gentle yet pungent play The Few, now in its world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre.
Read MoreWhat Evil Lurks Behind the Lust? Double Indemnity at the Old Globe
Ordinary people bloomed into murderous evil in the world of pre-war pulp fiction which produced a minor masterpiece in the 1937 James M. Cain novel Double Indemnity, which became a landmark of film noir featuring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in 1944. Now the Old Globe Theatre has a steamy stage adaptation, directed by newcomer John Gould Rubin, which does its ancestors proud.
Read MoreSideways Through Wine Country Brings Glow to La Jolla Playhouse
Two buddies on a on a wine country road trip dogged by outside world complications and berserk appetites find not paradise but some peace in the Rex Pickett stage adaptation of his novel now at the La Jolla Playhouse in a lovely Des McAnuff production.
Read MoreWhimsey Flavors Plainsmen’s Lives in Old Globe Theatre Rainmaker
Desperate, drought-ridden ranchers pay a con-man to bring rain in N. Richard Nash’s romantic fantasy The Rainmaker, now at he Old Globe Theatre. But there’s just as much desperation surrounding the daughter of the family, who may be turning into an old maid. Magic comes in many forms during this sturdy but creaking revival.
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