Posts Tagged ‘Andrea Agosto’
Diversionary’s “Significant Other”: a Significant Production, but a Glib Vehicle
The excellent cast of Diversionary Theatre’s new production of “Significant Other” by Joshua Harmon and the sophisticated direction of Anthony Methvin are the more winning aspects of this superficial play.
Read MoreDiversionary’s Brilliant New Feminist Play by Bryna Turner–Not a Moment Too Soon!
Playwright Bryna Turner’s exciting 2017 play “Bull in a China Shop,” too easily described as a brisk biography of revolutionary feminist Mary Woolley, president of Mount Holyoke College in the early decades of the last century, opened Saturday at Diversionary Theatre. Kim Strassburger’s smashing direction and her astute cast really deliver the goods!
Read More‘Cardboard Piano’–Diversionary’s Probing Political and Ethical Parable
The main issues that roil the plot of Hansol Jung’s searing 2016 play “Cardboard Piano” include forgiveness and redemption, life and death, race and colonialism, love and hate, faith and doubt, with a heavy dash of homophobia. And—let’s be clear about this—these are just the main themes of the play at Diversionary . . .
Read MoreProbing, High-Voltage Romantic Parable Opens at Diversionary Theatre
“Romeo and Juliet” quickly morphed into a symbol for the universal struggle of young lovers, and playwright Jordan Seavey’s 2016 opus “Homos, or Everyone in America” at San Diego’s Diversionary Theatre wants us to find a parallel universality in the tumultuous affair of two young gay men from Brooklyn . . .
Read MoreThe Play’s the Thing in CCdd’s Clever ‘Best Goodbye’
Hip-hop fare has its blatant poetic streak, which in its own rite makes it a storyteller’s genre. San Diego-based playwright Gill Sotu understands this in no uncertain terms — his ‘The Best Goodbye’ is loaded with anecdotes big and small, and a savvy cast from Circle Circle dot dot takes the show from there.
Read MoreSubtext Is King in Mo`olelo’s Decent ‘Cell’
Sociopolitically correct Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company resumes its full-fledged stage activity with a pretty good world-premiere ‘Cell,’ designed as a commentary on likeminded social groups and the reproach they experience when society necessarily places them at odds.
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