Posts Tagged ‘Cygnet Theatre Company’
Spirit Tops the Logistics in Cygnet’s Unfinished ‘Wind And the Breeze’
Your universe is as big, or as small, as you care to make it — after all, it’s your universe. ‘The Wind and the Breeze,’ Cygnet Theatre Company’s current entry, can’t quite decide between the dimensions, but its spirit and production values count for a lot.
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 MoreSan Diego Arts 2017: Theatre
On its surface, San Diego theater acquitted itself quite well in 2017…Indeed, theater here grows more practiced and comfortable with itself each year…
Read MoreCygnet’s ‘McBride’: a Night with the Understudies
The drag environment fascinates as much as it may unnerve — but with Cygnet Theatre Company’s very good ‘The Legend of Georgia McBride,’ it’s as legitimate a force for change as anything else.
Read MoreThe Kids Are All Right in Terrific ‘Shockheaded Peter’
Psychiatrist and author Heinrich Hoffmann never figured on the modern-day backlash from his children’s book, designed to scare the daylights out of errant kids. The response is ‘Shockheaded Peter,’ Cygnet Theatre Company’s uniformly outstanding nod to the victims beneath the stories.
Read MoreCygnet’s ‘Twentieth Century’ Could Use Some Steam
There’s a lot of talent on display on the Cygnet stage. I only wish that the good work had come together more solidly….
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