Funny ‘Manifest Destinitis’ Needs a Dash Less Moliere

By Martin Jones Westlin | September 23, 2016 |

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.

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Macbeth in the Field Hospital

By Welton Jones | June 29, 2016 |

It’s allowed to forget the ancient course on quoting from ‘Macbeth”, aka ‘the Scottish Play,’ when one is actually involved with a production. What a luxury, then, to relax and contemplate BrianKulck’s transplant into military hospital.

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