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San Diego Opera’s Searing ‘Soldier Songs’ Brings Military Reality to Stage
San Diego Opera’s stirring production of composer David T. Little’s “Soldier Songs” at the Balboa Theatre honored Veterans Day with an honest, in-your-face confrontation of what war does to the soldier . . .
Read MoreSan Diego Opera’s Plunge into the Brave New World of Contemporary Chamber Opera
When San Diego Opera decided to move outsidee the boundaries of grand opera, they could hardly have chosen a work more profoundly different than David T. Little’s contemporary chamber opera “Soldier Stories”
Read MoreFormer La Jolla Resident Thinks Inside the Box
How do you manage to — uh — contain yourself amid the magic of theater and all it means? Former La Jolla resident Dominique Salerno found the solution. You write and perform your own show from a space no bigger than two breadboxes.
Read MoreWriting Iconic Comedy
Several of Neil Simon’s plays were influenced by real life events. Chapter Two and his trilogy of stories starring Eugene (Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound) took inspiration from important periods of the writer’s career and personal struggles.
Read MoreThe Music of Outreach in Four Different Keys
To get a sense of how four San Diego musical organizations were engaging in outreach, music critic Ken Herman attended events on Wednesday and Thursday of this week (October 26 & 27) and compiled this report . . .
Read MoreRep’s Positively Superb ‘Disgraced’ Marks Rift over Muslim Identity in West
We’re all bozos on this bus, as Monty Python said — indeed, the illusion behind human perception bids us take our seats. In the Islam-intensive current events arena, a dark and absolutely extraordinary San Diego Repertory Theatre entry shows in no uncertain terms what happens when that illusion is washed away.
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