Posts by Welton Jones
The Best of 2018 Will Do Just Fine Without My Retrospective Input
Comparisons are useful, at best, as ways to keep the conversations going during the slack season.
Read MoreHistory Reels Onward in LJ Playhouse ‘The Year to Come’
The years slip sluggishly along in the retirement Florida of Lindsey Ferrentino’s ‘The Year to Come’ at the La Jolla Playhouse. But who cares?
Read MoreAmidst the Pie, Southern Hearts Shamelessly Collide in ‘Waitress’
Happiness isn’t automatic by the end of the music ‘Waitress,’ but nearly everybody has learned to live with the best available.
Read MoreClint Black’s Country Songs Vary the Seasonal Flavor at the Globe But Dark Questions Still Nag
Next door to the Old Globe Theatre, where ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ is being explained these days, another troupe of mixed ages is examining the holiday season in only a slightly more weighty way with ‘Clint Black’s Looking for Christmas.’
Read MoreAt the Rep, ‘Actually’ Addresses ‘Me Too’ and All the Rest
In the rush to redress all wrongs, greater damage is a possibility too. So suggests ‘Actually,’ a new play at the San Diego Rep seemingly rush to the Lyceum pac directly from the cable news feed.
Read MoreAt La Jolla Playhouse, ‘Hundred Days’ Triggers Urgent Questions of Love and Mortality
From the doctor, ‘a hundred more days to live’ is not a sentence but a guess, one that Shaun and Abigale Bengson have used to discuss heavy questions of romance and mortality in their concept/show ‘Hundred Days’ at the La Jolla Playhouse.
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