THEATRE REVIEWS
Less-than-simple pleasures are at play in Moxie’s The Pleasure Trials
What is pleasure exactly… and what are we willing to do or compromise to capture it? These questions – and more – are highlighted in Sarah Saltwick’s new play The Pleasure Trials
Read MoreMoonlight’s Powerful ‘Ragtime’ Explores America
One of the major reasons why the 1998 epic, Ragtime, continues to be produced around the world, is because it is a relevant American story. Many of the themes involving racism, immigration and generational conflicts are topics that strike a chord with modern audiences.
Read MoreA Midsummer Night’s Awakening
For an audience welcoming all that is modern culture and looking to laugh, this production is a joy, delivered in San Diego’s own park of fancy and marvels on the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Stage.
Read MoreHere There Are Blueberries explores the chilling layers of the perpetrators of Auschwitz
“I know I couldn’t have been a Mengele… or a Höcker… but could I have been a Helferinnen?” The audience leaves asking themselves that same question of complicity following La Jolla Playhouse’s world premiere Here There Are Blueberries, running through August 21.
Read MoreCygnet Brings Back ‘Cabaret’ and the Menacing Allure of Berlin in the Waning Days of the Weimar Republic
Cygnet Theatre’s impressive revival Kander and Ebb’s ‘Cabaret’ will run through September 4, 2022, at the Theatre in Old Town.
Read MoreA RomCom by Any Other Name… Wouldn’t Be Pretty Woman
Nostalgia is the name of the game in Pretty Woman: The Musical, playing a one-week run at Broadway San Diego’s Civic Theater from July 26-31, 2022. This production by Grammy winner Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, with book by movie director and screenwriter Gerry Marshall and J. F. Lawton, is exactly what it sounds like: a faithful adaptation of a cherished romcom.
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