THEATRE REVIEWS
Ion Theatre’s ‘4,000 Miles’–Acerbic Family Trials in Greenwich Village
Hilcrest’s Ion Theatre gives Amy Herzog’s recent drama 4,000 Miles a sharp, compelling staging on its intimate Black Box stage . . .
Read More‘October Sky’ Leads From Coal Mines to Outer Space in Globe Musical
The Space Age comes to the mines of West Virginia and at least one boy, Homer Hickam Jr., made it out into the winder world. The amiable new musical at the Old Globe Theatre tells how.
Read MoreFunny ‘Manifest Destinitis’ Needs a Dash Less Moliere
Audience and authorial tastes are changing all the time, and that’s why a Moliere adaptation (amid its originator’s bawdy humor) might not catch up in one fell swoop. Nonetheless, San Diego Repertory Theatre’s ‘Manifest Destinitis’ is a lot of fun as it looks at a core premise of 19th-century American expansionism.
Read MoreIn ‘Tiger Style,’ La Jolla Playhouse Plumbs the Best and Worst of Being Asian
The efficiency of numbers in the Chinese language and the demands of successful rice paddies have been suggested as clues to the academic success of Asian students. But the two discontented overachievers in ‘Tiger Style’ at the La Jolla Playhouse have never been near either one.
Read More‘Addams Family’ Scares the Normals at Moonlight
Our favorite gothic clan is obsessed with honesty and sadism, lovemaking and hallucinogens…
Read MoreNew ‘Hunchback’ Streamlines and Humanizes
If you saw the La Jolla production and wanted it to be better, it’s worth the drive to see what “better” looks like…
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