THEATRE REVIEWS
Earnest Effort Makes ‘The Cake’ at La Jolla
There’s a whiff of headlines in ‘The Cake,’ Bekah Brunstetters new play at the La Jolla Playhouse, but the Supreme Court should wish for litigators as nice as these.
Read MoreOpposites Attract in Los Angeles
Teatro Pueblo Nuevo was officially formed last September in Carlsbad’s New Village Arts Theatre, with the purpose of being a bilingual and bicultural outreach initiative. A new staging of Jose Rivera’s surreal romantic drama, Cloud Tectonics, serves as the first mainstage production for the program.
Read MoreSplintered text, history mar MOXIE’s fair ‘Bliss’
The era of female empowerment begs the question of its relative quietude over thousands of years. MOXIE Theatre’s current ‘Bliss (or Emily Post Is Dead!)’ has the right idea in addressing it — but some see-saw dialogue and an enormous directorial oversight knock it off balance.
Read More‘Cardboard Piano’–Diversionary’s Probing Political and Ethical Parable
The main issues that roil the plot of Hansol Jung’s searing 2016 play “Cardboard Piano” include forgiveness and redemption, life and death, race and colonialism, love and hate, faith and doubt, with a heavy dash of homophobia. And—let’s be clear about this—these are just the main themes of the play at Diversionary . . .
Read MoreWit Served As Old Globe Again Goes Wilde
Few comedies is the history of the theatre deliver more solid satisfaction more consistently than Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance of Being Earnest.’ The present production at the Old Globe Theatre, not its first, demonstrates this yet again.
Read MoreA Millennial Explains His Parents in the Rep’s ‘Vietgone’
Qui Nguyen’s play, Vietgone, now playing at San Diego Repertory Theatre, is designed to take audiences by surprise – and it does.
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