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Who Cares? Everyone—City Ballet’s “Balanchine and More”
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.
Read MoreRep Examines the Misery of Holidays
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.
Read MoreMaking the Culture Leap From Middle East to Middle America
Choose between your religion, your country, your family and yourself, then make do in an alien nation. Welcome to ‘Noura’ at the Old Globe.
Read More‘Kiss My Aztec!’ Get It? Of COURSE You Do
If the fabled Americas had been conquered by burlesque, hip-hop and bad puns, we’d be studying this stuff in history class.
Read MoreAt Globe, Martin’s Take On A Bitter German Farce Helps These Mornings
Rise and shine these days to the absurdities of the world illuminated at the Old Globe Theatre by Steve Martin’s adaptation of an early 20th Century German farce which causes dropped panties to make as much sense as anything right now.
Read More‘Life After’ Examined With Poetical Wisdom In Impressive Globe Debut
Survivors of tragedies must deal with regrets but also guilt, Britta Johnson shows in a lovely new musical play at the Old Globe.
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