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Hilarious Halloween Visit to Escondido
The Welk Resort Theatre has a reputation for putting on lighthearted Christmas musicals, including shows such as Plaid Tidings, Winter Wonderettes and the upcoming revue, Welkome Home for the Holidays!. This year the Escondido theatre company is celebrating Halloween, presenting a hilarious version of the musical comedy The Addams Family.
Read MoreHalf a Great Show: Malashock Dance’s “Without a Net” at WOW
Though the circus artists mostly occupied center-stage in “Without a Net,” the dance smartly complemented them, setting an edgy European-circus mood. I was primed to see something weirder at the midpoint in the 80-minute program, when my half of the audience switched places with folks who’d been at the “Side Show.” Weird, it was.
Read MoreTheatre Comes to Liberty Station
There was no shortage of things to see at the La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls (WOW) Festival 2019 held at Liberty Station, last Thursday through Sunday (October 17-20). The array of site-specific and immersive theatrical experiences offered plenty of entertainment for theatre fans.
Read MoreThe “Point Loma Pause” as Art: Ikaros at the WOW Festival
It’s called the Point Loma pause: the 10 or so seconds when a plane roars over Point Loma, and you have to stop mid-sentence. Every time it happened during “Ikaros,” the piece that Third Rail Projects created for the WOW Festival, the three performers went into stillness and looked up. I looked up, too, seeing this everyday occurrence as if with fresh eyes; marveling at the miracle of flight.
Read MoreStellar Cast Leads San Diego Opera’s Unusual Presentation of Verdi’s ‘Aïda’
San Diego Opera opened its production of Verdi’s beloved grand opera “Aïda” Saturday, October 19, 2019, at San Diego Civic Theatre with as winning a cast of “Aïda” singers as you will hear just about anywhere. The production runs through October 27, 2019.
Read MoreShakespeare and Mendelssohn Needed More Room Than Symphony Supplied
Mendelssohn’s supportive score for Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ represents a genius-level partnership that needs considerable artistic labor if paired on the same program. San Diego Symphony should have spent more time at the drawing board.
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