THEATRE REVIEWS
Zombies Threatening La Jolla Playhouse? Ho Hum
The familiar gang of zombies dragging through the streets greets La Jolla playgoers with little to say or do except, well, BOO!
Read MoreFair to middlin’ ‘Walk in the Woods’ Is a ‘Zoo Story’ for the Trump-Putin Age
The nuclear age comes wrapped in a sea of pacts, treaties, eleventh-hour phone calls, banner headlines, gleaming host cities, worn-through bargaining tables, heartfelt promises and outright lies. Lee Blessing’s ‘A Walk in the Woods’ tries to explain some of it — but the current North Coast Repertory Theatre entry doesn’t know which part it wants to play.
Read MoreEveryone Wants to Tell You ‘What You Are’ In Old Globe Premiere
The tensions of generation gap rage toward helpless failure in JC Lee’s new drama of coping with contemporary contempt.
Read MoreDiversionary’s “Significant Other”: a Significant Production, but a Glib Vehicle
The excellent cast of Diversionary Theatre’s new production of “Significant Other” by Joshua Harmon and the sophisticated direction of Anthony Methvin are the more winning aspects of this superficial play.
Read MoreChorus, Sadistic DDS, and Gender Flips Feed ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ at New Village Arts
Director AJ Knox sticks to the plot, but switches the gender of several characters with success, and the music has a bouncy 60’s vibe. Philip David Black’s evil Orin Scrivello DDS and multiple character changes have the audience screaming. If you have not seen either of the B movies, you’re in for a shock to your funny bone…
Read MoreBroadway SD’s So-So ‘Fiddler’ Is on the Wrong Side of Its Own History
It’s been in the national conscience for decades, along with its vigorously implied indictment of anti-Semitism — but even so, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ is subject to the foibles traceable to misinterpretation. The current Broadway San Diego entry serves as a point of fact.
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