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Gil Shaham in the Cathedral of Bach

By Ken Herman | February 28, 2015 |

Gil Shaham’s Friday (Feb. 27) program, devoted exclusively to the unaccompanied violin works of J. S. Bach, created a virtual cathedral of sound in La Jolla’s Sherwood Auditorium . . .

Next Generation revealed in ‘Choreographers Showcase & Prize’

By Kris Eitland | February 22, 2015 |

Siegel and Acuña changed direction on the diagonal and were gliding toward the audience when their dance was cut short. Blinding lights flashed and an alarm sounded. A few in the crowd thought it might be part of the dance. We all ended up out on the sidewalk…

Out of Chaos Comes Order in Lamb’s’ ‘You Can’t Take It with You’

By Martin Jones Westlin | February 22, 2015 |

We’re dependent on only ourselves, in good times and bad, for our happiness. Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s ‘You Can’t Take It with You’ is a big-time reminder of all that — and Lamb’s Players Theatre mounts the lesson with its usual expertise.

Poets Face Death in Old Globe ‘The Twenty-Seventh Man’

By Welton Jones | February 22, 2015 |

Four Yiddish poets await their fate in a dank Soviet cell as Nathan Englander’s borrows from Russian history for ‘The Twenty-Seventh Man,” now at the Old Globe Theatre.