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Tantalizing Opera Buffet at Opera NEO’s Cabaret Night in Encinitias

By Ken Herman | July 29, 2017 |

As Opera NEO approaches its season opening next week, July 28, the company presented its customary Cabaret evening of scenes and ensemble songs from a wide variety of opera, operetta, and musical theater at the Encinitas Library Concert Hall . . .

Tentacled Twist, Tap Dancing Make Moonlight’s ‘Mermaid’ Bubbly Fun

By Kris Eitland | July 26, 2017 |

Randall Hickman’s Ursula is big and loud–a bottle of rum in the kiddie punch– and balances the sweetness and puns spawned from Disney. His timing and naughtiness are to die for…

‘Brooklyn’ Subtext Missing, But Its Exuberance Is Intact

By Martin Jones Westlin | July 23, 2017 |

The search for our identities sometimes takes us outside our own sphere, especially amid our youth — and Leigh Scarritt Productions’ exuberant ‘Brooklyn the Musical’ illustrates the joy inherent in that vital discovery.

‘Evening’s Performance’ Is Hopelessly Underdone, Desperately Out of Touch

By Martin Jones Westlin | July 18, 2017 |

If ‘At This Evening’s Performance’ is to be believed, at least one totalitarian autocracy lives and dies by its bathhouses, its radish exports and its state theater. That’s the problem with North Coast Repertory Theatre’s turn at this supposed farce — you can’t believe a word of it.