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A traumatic trip ends at its intended destination. How happily it ends is evident many years later but not at play’s end. Ms. John’s stellar acting, as well as understanding the refugee experience, makes the trauma worth experiencing.

Beloved actor/clown Bill Irwin and college Christopher Fitzgerald take tentative steps into the world of quarantined theatre with ‘In-Zoom.’ Sweet.

City Ballet of San Diego opened its “Balanchine and More” with “Who Cares?,” George Balanchine’s 1970 ballet set to nine Gershwin tunes. Lighthearted and flirty, the piece was a delicious kickoff for a program demonstrating the extraordinary care that has made City Ballet a stellar company whose dancers gobble up challenging repertory … and do it to a live orchestra.

Among the bright celebrations of theatrical holidays spectaculars there is a darker sub-genre of plays about families bashing each other yet somehow surviving to fight again next year. The Rep currently has one of these.

Choose between your religion, your country, your family and yourself, then make do in an alien nation. Welcome to ‘Noura’ at the Old Globe.

If the fabled Americas had been conquered by burlesque, hip-hop and bad puns, we’d be studying this stuff in history class.

Roustabouts’ Traumatic Story Redeemed by Stellar Acting

Bill Irwin Squints Into the World of Zoom for the Old Globe Theatre

Who Cares? Everyone—City Ballet’s “Balanchine and More”

Rep Examines the Misery of Holidays

Making the Culture Leap From Middle East to Middle America

‘Kiss My Aztec!’ Get It? Of COURSE You Do