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Despite a Shaky Foundation, Intrepid’s ‘Art’ Is Good Fun
There’s more to friendship than friends. While the best among them may fight about the least quaintifiable things in life, something indefinable usually draws them together against some pretty tough odds. Yasmina Reza’s ‘Art,’ latest from Intrepid Theatre Company, is a case in point — it doesn’t make a perfect logistical sense, but the production values are often a sight to behold.
Read MoreLiving Life on the Wild Side
Vista’s Broadway Theatre continues to produce comedies that fly under the radar. The latest example at the venue, Nana’s Naughty Knickers!, provides an extremely light evening of entertainment.
Read MoreSerendipity and Serious Fun—It’s “Trolley Dances”
The performance of “Finding Center” that I saw featured one of those magical Trolley Dances movements: Shannon was zooming toward us, to the sound of the amplified whiz of his skateboard wheels, and in a direct line behind him, a trolley was coming into the station.
Read More‘October Sky’ Leads From Coal Mines to Outer Space in Globe Musical
The Space Age comes to the mines of West Virginia and at least one boy, Homer Hickam Jr., made it out into the winder world. The amiable new musical at the Old Globe Theatre tells how.
Read MoreFunny ‘Manifest Destinitis’ Needs a Dash Less Moliere
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.
Read MoreIn ‘Tiger Style,’ La Jolla Playhouse Plumbs the Best and Worst of Being Asian
The efficiency of numbers in the Chinese language and the demands of successful rice paddies have been suggested as clues to the academic success of Asian students. But the two discontented overachievers in ‘Tiger Style’ at the La Jolla Playhouse have never been near either one.
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