THEATRE REVIEWS
A Gloomy and Merry Winter
The Intrepid Theatre Company is presenting a new series called Shakespeare Unplugged. The purpose is to stage stories from the Bard and focus on the text instead of visual elements.
Read MoreExploring Stephen Sondheim’s Genius
Stephen Sondheim musicals are often staged in San Diego, and fortunately for us this year also contained two revues. In February, Vista’s Moonlight Stage Productions presented Sondheim on Sondheim, which incorporated live musical numbers with archive footage of the beloved songwriter.
Read MoreThe Play Where Bad is Really Good and Sexy
Moxie Theatre, that shining citadel of feminist drama, has crowned its tenth season with Javier Velasco’s “Eternally Bad,” an unrelenting salvo intended to send patriarchal religions cowering for mercy . . .
Read MoreGlobe Refloats a Masterpiece With Cole Porter ‘Kiss Me, Kate’
Kiss Me, Kate turns out to be even better than I remembered. It is fun to float out of the theatre humming the evening’s songs.
Read MoreLove is, Ultimately, All in Intrepid’s ‘Quality of Life’
The Quality of Life will tug at you, tug at you, and then tug at you some more…
Read MoreOld Globe’s 10th ‘Twelfth Night’ is Bright and Amiable
Sexual Ambiguity and randy roughhousing run rampant in an Old Globe ‘Twelfth Night’ that…
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