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Players One-Up Playwright in an Intense ‘Gidion’s Knot’
Young Gidion’s death by hanging is a loss from which his mom will never recover — and in Innermission Productions’ good
‘Gidion’s Knot,’ educational protocol is as much the culprit as anything.
Two Dozen Jimmy Buffett Songs Help LJ Playhouse Escape to Margaritaville
What’s not to like about 24 Jimmy Buffett songs from 44 years of baladeering? And a plot and you’ve got a Broadway-bound musical titled – what else? – ‘Escape to Margaritaville.’
Read MoreThe Kids Are All Right in Terrific ‘Shockheaded Peter’
Psychiatrist and author Heinrich Hoffmann never figured on the modern-day backlash from his children’s book, designed to scare the daylights out of errant kids. The response is ‘Shockheaded Peter,’ Cygnet Theatre Company’s uniformly outstanding nod to the victims beneath the stories.
Read MorePlay is Sacred in Bill T. Jones’s “Play and Play”
Unlike some of the notable work by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, there is nothing head-on about “Play and Play,” presented at UCSD’s Mandeville Auditorium on Thursday (presented by Artpower). It’s exuberant pure dance. Yet this gentler work also offers a profound message … about play as a sacred activity that teaches us how, simultaneously, to be both individuals and members of a community.
Read MoreSynergy is Sweet, Indeed, as San Diego Ballet Pirouettes to Live Jazz
There was a thrilling “West Side Story” moment, two big groups entering from either side of the stage. Men partnered women. Women partnered women. Men partnered men. The women’s ponytails pranced! Shawn Burgess, in an acrobatic solo, radiated so much joy, I thought he was going to levitate.
Read MoreChucho Valdés Holds Court at Copley
Pianist Chucho Valdés in solo concert reminds us all of why he is a true, Cuban legend.
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