THEATRE REVIEWS
Wonderland Enchants in Coronado
Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” are timeless classics, and there have been numerous lesser-known stage adaptations of his surreal books. One in particular is a musical written by the late Elizabeth Swados, Alice in Concert.
Read More‘House of Joy’ at San Diego Repertory Theatre: More Spectacle Than Persuasive Drama
San Diego Repertory Theatre has opened flamboyant new production of Madhuri Shekar’s “House of Joy” in the Lyceum Space. The house is a royal harem in 17th-century India, and the “joy” part is total irony.
Read More‘Fly’ Needs More Help to Rise at La Jolla Playhouse
Everybody knows what’s supposed to happen in ‘Peter Pan.’ Some of it does in the raucous La Jolla Playhouse version. Some doesn’t.
Read MorePolitical Satire Brings the Jokes
With Super Tuesday right around the corner, it is a perfect time for a political comedy. North Coast Repertory Theatre’s production of the West Coast premiere of The Outsider uses clever humor, for a hilarious evening of crazy hijinks.
Read More‘A Kind of Weather’ Launches Three-Play ‘Gender Series’
A Kind of Weather plumbs the depths of how a cis-gender father adapts when his trans son is what’s left of his life. The 90-minute, no intermission, production thoughtfully presents characters winding their way through relationships they want to be intimate…
Read MoreGods Know We Need Lots More Help; Old Globe Theatre Does Its Best
Olympian gods are always potentially helpful, at least, even when the problems have piled up as they have presently. And some people just don’t want help, Madeleine George laments at Old Globe.
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