Posts Tagged ‘comedy/drama’
OnStage’s ‘Lonely Planet’ Chronicles Life During a Pandemic
The source for Mr. Dietz’s 1992 play, Lonely Planet, now playing at Chula Vista’s OnStage Playhouse, was Eugène Ionesco’s 1952 absurdist “tragic farce,” The Chairs…
Read MoreMoxie’s ‘The Revolutionists’ Jokes About the Reign of Terror
In The Revolutionists, playwright Lauren Gunderson turns her attention to three women who lost their lives during the French Reign of Terror…
Read MoreCircle Circle dot dot Plays [in, with] Hillcrest
Circle Circle dot dot, a newish theatre collective that presents company-created material, has decided to try something site-specific. The result is San Diego. I Love You, which is being presented to the public this weekend and next. It’s a pleasant hour-long afternoon stroll through the varieties of young love in Hillcrest.
Read MoreClybourne Park: Bones to Pick/No Bones to Make
Playwright Bruce Norris takes Avenue Q’s snarky bromide that everyone’s a little bit racist to its logical conclusion in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Clybourne Park, now playing through February 10 at San Diego REP’s Lyceum Stage. I have a bone to pick with how Mr. Norris manipulates the story, but I have no bones about recommending this solid-at-every-level production.
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