THEATRE REVIEWS
East Coast Family Dysfunction
A.R. Gurney’s “comedy of manners,” The Cocktail Hour has come full circle to San Diego County. In 1988, the play premiered at the Old Globe Theatre, before opening Off Broadway.
Read MoreRafiki Rules the Serengeti As ‘Lion King’ Loses Some Edge
We come from dust, and that’s about where we’re headed — and Africa’s Serengeti is a classic case in point in Disney’s mount of the iconic ‘The Lion King.’ San Diego first saw the show 11 years ago to wild acclaim, but the overwrought current installment is accompanied by some dust of its own.
Read MoreHoping for a Better Life in Manhattan
Director/choreographer, Ray Limon, recently staged several musicals at the Welk Resort Theatre that have connections to Bob Fosse. After well-received productions of Chicago and Cabaret (Fosse directed the motion picture version), Limon’s latest Fosse influenced interpretation is the 1966 comedy-drama, Sweet Charity.
Read More‘Cabaret’ Slinks Into the Civic
Cabaret keeps changing – it will never be the same…
Read MoreOld Globe’s Labors Win With ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’
Shakespeare’s most formal, artificial play is like an extension of Balboa Park this summer in the Old Globe Theatre’s verdant, joyous production.
Read MoreThe Ways of the Universe Are Too Much for Backyard’s ‘Gutenberg! The Musical!’
Two of the summer’s better performances are up at Diversionary Theatre — but amid some criminally ingratiating material, the actors can do only so much in Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company’s slovenly Gutenberg! The Musical!.
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