THEATRE REVIEWS
Singers Wanted for InnerMission’s ‘Ordinary Days’
‘Ordinary Days’ is written as a 90-minute, no intermission, sung-through musical. Note: “sung-through.” Almost no dialogue. And, at best these are actors who sing, rather than singers who act…
Read MoreTentacled Twist, Tap Dancing Make Moonlight’s ‘Mermaid’ Bubbly Fun
Randall Hickman’s Ursula is big and loud–a bottle of rum in the kiddie punch– and balances the sweetness and puns spawned from Disney. His timing and naughtiness are to die for…
Read More‘Brooklyn’ Subtext Missing, But Its Exuberance Is Intact
The search for our identities sometimes takes us outside our own sphere, especially amid our youth — and Leigh Scarritt Productions’ exuberant ‘Brooklyn the Musical’ illustrates the joy inherent in that vital discovery.
Read More‘Evening’s Performance’ Is Hopelessly Underdone, Desperately Out of Touch
If ‘At This Evening’s Performance’ is to be believed, at least one totalitarian autocracy lives and dies by its bathhouses, its radish exports and its state theater. That’s the problem with North Coast Repertory Theatre’s turn at this supposed farce — you can’t believe a word of it.
Read MoreMusical Theatre, Marx Brothers Style
Only a select few pre-1943 musicals have been revived in the 21st century so far. The shows that continue to be staged are typically produced if there is still the potential to attract modern audiences.
Read MoreAuthentic Voices Entwine For Rachel Bonds’ ‘Old Place’ In La Jolla
In a scraggly front yard four people trade fragments of their incomplete lives and an unusual buildup of hope and compassion result in Jaime Castaneda’s sensitive staging of Rachel Bonds’ ‘At the Old Place’ for the La Jolla Playhouse.
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