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A novelist of dance, Blythe Barton, in her longer work, creates vivid societies onstage. In “The only real world I know is mine,” her premiere at the San Diego Fringe Fest, Barton’s world was a generous place that I wanted to live in.
Twenty-eight years after its world premiere on this same stage, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “Into the Woods” is back at the Old Globe, as muddled as ever. But tis time, it’s great fun, thanks to a fresh and scruffy staging that emphasizes tweaking the imagination.
bare: a pop opera has been called a “cult favorite.” First performed in Los Angeles in 2000, the show made its New York debut off-Broadway in 2004 and was presented in a revised version during the 2012-13 off-Broadway season. Diversionary Theatre has mounted its largest and most complex production to date in bringing the original version to San Diego. The result makes an A for effort, if not always for achievement…
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