James Shanklin – San Diego Story

Poets Face Death in Old Globe ‘The Twenty-Seventh Man’

By Welton Jones | February 22, 2015 |

Four Yiddish poets await their fate in a dank Soviet cell as Nathan Englander’s borrows from Russian history for ‘The Twenty-Seventh Man,” now at the Old Globe Theatre.

Homeless Mom Battles Long Odds in Old Globe BETHANY

By Welton Jones | January 31, 2014 |

Forced to fight for custody of her five-year-old daughter, an impressive homeless mom struggles to muster enough middle-class dignity to impress the state agency that seized the child. But everybody is sinking in the recession of 2009.