Posts Tagged ‘drama’
‘JQA’ Snapshots Illuminate Fine Acting, Bits of History
[Aaron] Posner has created a series of snapshots of Adams’ life…The snapshots add up to a look at Adams the man and some of his achievements but it in no way compose a comprehensive biography.
Read More‘A Kind of Weather’ Launches Three-Play ‘Gender Series’
A Kind of Weather plumbs the depths of how a cis-gender father adapts when his trans son is what’s left of his life. The 90-minute, no intermission, production thoughtfully presents characters winding their way through relationships they want to be intimate…
Read MorePlaywright Lauren Yee ‘Having a Moment’ at Cygnet
Lauren Yee is having a moment in San Diego theatre…
Read MoreLamb’s ‘Feast’ a Gift of Grace to Audiences
Lamb’s Players Theatre loves a good story – and they’ve been specializing in dramatizing them since their early days as a company. They’ve found another one to tell, and the result is a veritable banquet for the imagination and the soul…
Read MoreScripps Ranch Cast Loves ‘Not Wisely But Too Well’ in Shanley Play
Given societal changes, it would take a good deal of finesse to make “Italian American Reconciliation” work as a contemporary story. The Scripps Ranch production hadn’t found that finesse as of opening night.
Read MoreQuiet Dignity in Troubled Times at SD Rep
Jeanne Sakata’s play, Hold These Truths, documents Gordon Hirabayashi’s World War II civil disobedience and the principles that informed it…
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