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Litvak’s “Dancing Outdoors” Offers Strong Geographic, Emotional Range
Strutting out in glitter and fur, Ashley Akhavan and Nick McGhee own the stage in “I hear everybody you know is more relevant than everybody I know.” Dipping, pivoting, vamping, Akhavan is all cool hauteur, while McGhee flashes a “please like me” smile. This deliciously cheeky piece opened “Dancing Outdoors Take 2,” Litvak Dance’s show in the courtyard of ICA in Encinitas on Saturday.
Read MoreA RomCom by Any Other Name… Wouldn’t Be Pretty Woman
Nostalgia is the name of the game in Pretty Woman: The Musical, playing a one-week run at Broadway San Diego’s Civic Theater from July 26-31, 2022. This production by Grammy winner Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, with book by movie director and screenwriter Gerry Marshall and J. F. Lawton, is exactly what it sounds like: a faithful adaptation of a cherished romcom.
Read MoreOpera Neo Opens Its Summer Festival with Festive Aria Gala at The Conrad
Sunday July 10, 2022, at The Conrad in downtown La Jolla, a baker’s dozen of rising opera stars offered their best arias in Aria Gala, the opening salvo of this year’s Opera Neo Summer Festival.
Read MoreOpera Neo Collaborates with Hungarian State Opera for Mozart’s ‘La finta giardiniera’ in Budapest
Friday, July 1, 2022, at Budapest’s Eiffel Art Studios, the Hungarian State Opera in collaboration with San Diego’s Opera Neo, presented a musically rich, smartly staged production of Mozart’s ‘La finta giardiniera.’
Read MoreThe Shrewdness of “The Taming of the Shrew” at the Old Globe
The Old Globe’s “Taming of the Shrew” is a roaring romantic good time – with actors, able comic actors all, amplifying whatever ribaldry and comedy Shakespeare left open in the text, but serving a sincere and moving portrait of the genuine joining of two souls.
Read MoreGustavo Romero Returns to La Jolla to Complete His Beethoven Sonata Cycle
Gustavo Romero presented the first of four all-Beethoven recitals for the La Jolla Athenaeum’s Summer Festival 2022 on Sunday, June 5, 2022.
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