Posts by Welton Jones
Making the Culture Leap From Middle East to Middle America
Choose between your religion, your country, your family and yourself, then make do in an alien nation. Welcome to ‘Noura’ at the Old Globe.
Read More‘Kiss My Aztec!’ Get It? Of COURSE You Do
If the fabled Americas had been conquered by burlesque, hip-hop and bad puns, we’d be studying this stuff in history class.
Read MoreTruth On A Train In ‘The Coast Starlight.’ Luminous La Jolla Playhouse Premiere
Conversations, real or imagined, among a random assortment of individuals sort out into perceptive truths in a world premiere by Keith Bunin at the La Jolla Playhouse.
Read MoreThose Immortal Lovers Are Back at the Old Globe And They’re Even Dancing
Whatever you do to it, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ usually wins out. When you have a couple of actors like the Globe does this summer, they triumph
Read MoreAt Globe, Martin’s Take On A Bitter German Farce Helps These Mornings
Rise and shine these days to the absurdities of the world illuminated at the Old Globe Theatre by Steve Martin’s adaptation of an early 20th Century German farce which causes dropped panties to make as much sense as anything right now.
Read MoreMice and Rats Collide in PigPen’s Musical Fable at the Old Globe
It takes more than talking mice and princesses to make a tale. At the Globe, PigPen Theatre has tried to graft their folksy flavor into a children’s story about a heroic rodent named Despereaux but lost their way pretty soon. Confusion ensues.
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