Ariana DeBose – San Diego Story

Teatro San Diego Stages an Intensely Raw Classic

By David Dixon | August 22, 2023 |

Ina Lelevier and Mason J. Ballard (Photos courtesy of Sarah Marie Hernandez.).

West Side Story is often presented in an epic style in big venues with large sets and orchestras. Teatro San Diego’s version might be staged at the intimate City Heights Performance Annex to recorded music, but the grand scale of the musical is felt with an expansively diverse cast and beautiful dancing.

McAnuff and Friends Hail Disco Queen Donna Summers at LJ Playhouse

By Welton Jones | November 21, 2017 |

It was a great decade for sex, drugs and a beat you could dance to. Donna Summer was hailed as Queen of Disco and she ha the catalogue to prove it. It took 30-plus songwriters to make this score and the highlight is a second-liohe song from ‘Hair.’ But it’s got strut and sleek chic.