THEATRE REVIEWS
Making the Culture Leap From Middle East to Middle America
Choose between your religion, your country, your family and yourself, then make do in an alien nation. Welcome to ‘Noura’ at the Old Globe.
Read MoreOld-Fashioned Musical Fun at Moonlight
Over the last several years, Allison Spratt Pearce has played some of the more iconic musical theater roles that were made famous by Julie Andrews. This includes Maria in The Sound of Music (Andrews played the role onscreen), Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and recently, Guinevere in Cygnet Theatre’s concert reading of Camelot.
Read MoreBoy Meets Boy in Diversionary Theatre’s ‘Girlfriend’
San Diego’s Diversionary Theatre presents its Romeo and Romeo musical, Todd Almond’s 2010 “Girlfriend,” a work that pulses with the music of 1990s pop icon Matthew Sweet.
Read MoreCygnet’s ‘The Virgin Trial’ Makes Royal Succession a Brutal Game
A physically and psychologically brutal examination of power politics following the death of King Henry VIII, Cygnet’s production both thrills and chills…
Read MoreMoxie’s ‘Dance Nation’ is Both Surprising and Satisfying
Clare Barron’s play, Dance Nation, currently making its West Coast premiere at Moxie Theatre, [is] not only interesting but vital…
Read More‘Kiss My Aztec!’ Get It? Of COURSE You Do
If the fabled Americas had been conquered by burlesque, hip-hop and bad puns, we’d be studying this stuff in history class.
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