THEATRE REVIEWS
Even Genocide Can’t Stop the Rock ‘n’ Roll In Cambodia
In the hideous slaughter of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge era of the 1970s, 90 perfcent of the country’s artists were wiped out. Just enough survived, it seems, for a rebirth.
Read MoreWelk’s Holiday Revue is Too Much of a Good Thing
Mae West has been credited with saying, “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.” But she has also been credited with saying, “Too much of a good thing can be taxing.” In the case of Welkome Home for the Holidays, a revue playing through December 29, 2019, I’d side with Ms. West’s latter statement…
Read MoreJules Verne Classic with an Entertaining Interpretation
Adding something new to a classic story can make it appear fresh. New Village Arts Theatre’s family-friendly production of Around the World in 80 Days not only uses a 2008 script from Laura Eason, but also incorporates original songs from a local “pirate rock” band, The Shantyannes (their musical theatre debut).
Read MoreQuiet Dignity in Troubled Times at SD Rep
Jeanne Sakata’s play, Hold These Truths, documents Gordon Hirabayashi’s World War II civil disobedience and the principles that informed it…
Read MoreGetting Down to Business with Backyard Renaissance Theatre’s Pitch-Perfect ‘American Buffalo’
San Diego’s Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company opened its production of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” Saturday, November 16, at the Tenth Avenue Arts Center, a modest venue located in a not yet gentrified part of the city’s East Village that is the precisely the type of neighborhood in which Mamet’s play takes place.
Read More‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Rocks and Shocks at Civic Theatre
Strange thing, it’s mystifying how the songs we grew up with, by then 21-year-old composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and 25-year-old lyricist Tim Rice, don’t sound the same as they did on the old stereo…
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