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‘Amadeus’ Gets NCRT 38th Season Started with a Bang
The trick in staging Amadeus is not to let it become overblown. Director Richard Baird has turned that trick marvelously for the opening of North Coast Repertory Theatre’s 38th season.
Read MoreThe Genius of Ambiguity: Mark Morris at La Jolla Music Society’s Summerfest
The performance by the Mark Morris Dance Group at Summerfest last week was like a loaf of artisan rye bread—dense, complex, chewy. The evening at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center was so packed with dance, music, and ideas, I would have like multiple viewings: once to focus on Morris’s choreography and brilliant movers, once for the world-renowned Summerfest musicians, and a third time to lose myself in the thrilling voice of countertenor John Holiday.
Read MoreTruth On A Train In ‘The Coast Starlight.’ Luminous La Jolla Playhouse Premiere
Conversations, real or imagined, among a random assortment of individuals sort out into perceptive truths in a world premiere by Keith Bunin at the La Jolla Playhouse.
Read MoreSDMT’s ‘All Shook Up’ Has Plenty of Juice
You can see juiced-up Shakespeare in Balboa Park. “All Shook Up” isn’t Shakespeare, but there’s plenty of juice for all, and then some…
Read MoreThose Immortal Lovers Are Back at the Old Globe And They’re Even Dancing
Whatever you do to it, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ usually wins out. When you have a couple of actors like the Globe does this summer, they triumph
Read MoreFiery, Authentic Dance Fuels ‘West Side Story’ at Moonlight
Choreographer Hector Guerero brings every distinctive finger snap and threatening melee from the source, Jerome Robbins…You may have seen the show before, but it’s danced wonderfully here…
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