Posts Tagged ‘Christopher Ashley’
San Diego Theatres Continue to Cope During the Pandemic – Here’s an Update as the ‘Fall Season’ Begins
As what would have been the fall season comes upon us, the local companies are keeping up their work…
Read MoreA Decade of Theatre in San Diego
January 1, 2020, marks the start of a new decade. Looking back, I notice that I have been reviewing theatre in San Diego for more than ten years. It seems appropriate to consult what I’ve written and see, what has changed about San Diego theatre. So, instead of summarizing 2019, I’m returning to 2010 and working my way forward to the present.
Read MorePrincess Diana Reforms the Royals on La Jolla Playhouse Stage
English history leapt a century thanks in great part to the late Princess of Wales, whose story becomes a musical at the La Jolla Playhouse.
Read MoreWhy ‘Come from Away’ Didn’t Win the Tony and Other Insights from New York
In which the author speculates about the San Diego-bred musical, ‘Come from Away,’ and the nature of the Tony Awards…
Read MoreLJP ‘Freaky Friday’ a Winner in Residence
The story about the mother and teenaged daughter who magically swap bodies has been around so long that the title sounds like antique slang but author Bridget Carpenter and songwriters Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey have deftly shaped it into a fable for the ages and director Christopher Ashley imported it for the beginning of his second decade as artistic boss at L Jolla Playhouse.
Read MoreToo Much Muck Makes Movies Self-Censor in LJP ‘Hollywood”
The avid fans of silent films couldn’t always separate the fantasy from the reality up there on the screen and censors were hurting business. With morals charges and even murders multiplying, the studios decided to hire their own censor and ‘the Hays Office’ was born, just in time to do damage control of one of Hollywood’s most enduring cold cases.
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