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If you choose to attend one production this summer, consider Moonlight’s terrific rendering of South Pacific, the rare musical play that balances saccharine comedy with serious themes and stage craft, and an ocean of memorable songs. Even if you’ve seen the Rodgers & Hammerstein gem before, or the film, or read James Michener’s book, Tales of the South Pacific, which sparked them all, you should drive to Vista to experience this production outdoors, especially when a heat wave makes normally cool nights feel like the breezy tropics.
The best thing about London theatre is that there is so much of it. There is commercial theatre, clustered in the West End around Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus, there are several institutional theatre companies, most notably the National Theatre, which operates from expansive facilities on the south bank of the Thames, right at the Waterloo Bridge. And, there are theatre companies doing cutting edge work, often in venues that are off the beaten track…
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is right back where it belongs – outdoors in a park – and Ian Talbot’s excellent production, which will be around through September, makes the masterpiece glow…
Revisiting the civil rights struggles of the 1960s in a small Southern town is ion theatre company’s latest adventure: “John Ball’s In the Heat of the Night,” by Matt Pelfrey. This riveting stage drama set in Argo, Alabama, in 1965, offers a murder mystery whose racial strife has been dramatized on both the silver screen and the tube.
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