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Everyone Wants to Tell You ‘What You Are’ In Old Globe Premiere

By Welton Jones | June 8, 2019 |

The tensions of generation gap rage toward helpless failure in JC Lee’s new drama of coping with contemporary contempt.

Diversionary’s “Significant Other”: a Significant Production, but a Glib Vehicle

By Ken Herman | June 7, 2019 |

The excellent cast of Diversionary Theatre’s new production of “Significant Other” by Joshua Harmon and the sophisticated direction of Anthony Methvin are the more winning aspects of this superficial play.

Chorus, Sadistic DDS, and Gender Flips Feed ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ at New Village Arts

By Kris Eitland | June 6, 2019 |

Director AJ Knox sticks to the plot, but switches the gender of several characters with success, and the music has a bouncy 60’s vibe. Philip David Black’s evil Orin Scrivello DDS and multiple character changes have the audience screaming. If you have not seen either of the B movies, you’re in for a shock to your funny bone…

Chicago’s Kontras Quartet and Malashock Dance: A Smashing Pas de Deux

By Ken Herman | June 1, 2019 |

Chicago’s outstanding Kontras Quartet has returned to San Diego in “High Strung” at the Lyceum Theatre, a stimulating collaboration between Art of Élan and Malashock Dance. In April, 2018, Art of Élan brought noted jazz virtuoso Branford Marsalis and the Kontras Quartet for an exciting concert at the Music Box in Little Italy, so I was eager to hear this string quartet again Saturday, May 31. To give the Malashock dancers greater space to explore across the wide expanse of the Lyceum stage, Kontras was nestled into a tight configuration at the back corner of the stage, but their sound…