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Conductor Gemma New’s Impressive Debut with the San Diego Symphony

By Ken Herman | May 20, 2019 |

Gemma New’s impressive debut on the podium of the San Diego Symphony Saturday, May 18, in Copley Symphony Hall made the over programmed Tchaikovsky Fifth Symphony sound fresh and engaging, and Michael Barenboim opened us up to the pleasures of Alexander Glazunov’s Violin Concerto in A Minor.

Cygnet’s Fair ‘Pride/Prejudice’ Begs the Overarching Question: Why?

By Martin Jones Westlin | May 20, 2019 |

Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is a timeless classic, but only to a point — its scrums on love and marriage take a back seat to the institutions themselves. In its current turn, Cygnet Theatre transgresses this; the result is a less-than-standard effort.

Ken Ludwig’s Gods Almighty From Olympus Make Happy Ending at Old Globe

By Welton Jones | May 18, 2019 |

A classics grad student needs help and Zeus sends the Gods of Comedy in the Ken Ludwig farce at the Globe, a welcome comedy romp with room to grow,

Moxie Gives a Fine Production to a Mess of a ‘Yoga Play’

By Bill Eadie | May 16, 2019 |

Moxie Theatre concludes its fourteenth season with Dipika Guha’s Yoga Play, a satirical comedy that explores the fashion world of yoga. Its premise is promising, Moxie’s production is appealing, but the spirituality gets muddled, ultimately sinking the play…

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