Posts Tagged ‘Allison Spratt Pearce’
‘Catch Me If You Can’ Inaugurates SDMT’s New Performance Space
Catch Me If You Can runs through March 13. See it if you can…
Read MoreIs a Generous ‘She Loves Me’ Exactly What We Need Right Now? Here It Is
Classics like ‘She Loves Me’ deserve special handling. And that’s what the San Diego Musical Theatre has provided.
Read MoreNorth Coast Repertory Theatre’s Amazing Necromancy: Damon Runyon and Frank Loesser’s New Musical
Mark Saltzman has crafted “Another Roll of the Dice,” a new musical theater pastiche based on several Damon Runyon short stories and interlaced with a dozen previously unconnected Frank Loesser songs. Long on nostalgia and short on dramatic depth, it is nevertheless an effervescent entertainment.
Read MoreLamb’s ‘Persuasion’ Doesn’t Convince
Well, you can’t win all the time…
Read MorePolitics, Not Theater, Fuels Cygnet’s So-So ‘Last Wife’
Henry VIII couldn’t soldier his way out of a wet paper bag, but he knew how to push other soldiers’ buttons. Then he met Katherine Parr, in whom he met his match. Cygnet Theatre Company’s ‘The Last Wife’ chronicles the events and the outcome — and while the script holds out Parr as a model, the show certainly does not.
Read MoreHistory Gets Short Shrift, But ‘Black Pearl Sings!’ Radiates Great Chemistry
Authentic history is sustained by its wealth of anecdotes. Copies of authentic history are sustained by nothing. That said, some very nice production values sustain San Diego Repertory Theatre’s ‘Black Pearl Sings!’ regardless.
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