THEATRE REVIEWS
Diversionary Brings Substance and Skill to ‘Now or Later’
After being bombarded with the angry and sometimes empty rhetoric of the 2016 campaign, it is almost a relief to escape to the theatre and hear important questions affecting the U. S. debated with both substance and skill…
Read MoreTennis Vs. Life in Old Globe’s ‘The Last Match’
Can the arena stage at the Old Globe hold the finals of the U.S. Open Tennis Championships? Sure, when the main focus is inside the heads of those involved, as displayed sharply in Anna Ziegler’s play ‘The Last Match,’ staged brilliantly by Gaye Taylor Upchurch.
Read MoreIt’s All About Her in NVA’s Pretty and Decent Biographical ‘Emilie’
In an especially good-looking show, New Village Arts wonders if the head or the heart rules the day in fueling human enterprise. A relatively obscure figure from history does the asking in ‘Emilie: La Marquise du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight,’ with topheavy but very interesting results.
Read MoreIntrepid’s ‘Woolf’ Approaches Brilliance
Calling something brilliant is typically overkill, but this production comes darn close…
Read MoreIt’s Hands-Off Policy for the Taj Mahal at La Jolla Playhouse
The Taj Mahal is just finished and the king wants to be sure there will never be its equal in beauty. So he orders that all those who built the building have their hands cut off. And, in a dismal fable titled ‘Guards at the Taj’ now on the La Jolla Playhouse stage at UCSD, two low-ranking sentries are selected and…
Read MoreHonoring Tradition and Community
Kathy Brombacher is no novice when it comes to staging Fiddler on the Roof. In 2012, the Founder and Producing Artistic Director Emeritus of Moonlight Stage Productions was responsible for a well-received version at the Amphitheatre.
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