Posts Tagged ‘Jason Maddy’
North Coast Repertory Theatre’s Amazing Necromancy: Damon Runyon and Frank Loesser’s New Musical
Mark Saltzman has crafted “Another Roll of the Dice,” a new musical theater pastiche based on several Damon Runyon short stories and interlaced with a dozen previously unconnected Frank Loesser songs. Long on nostalgia and short on dramatic depth, it is nevertheless an effervescent entertainment.
Read MoreA Catered Affair Marks New Fortune’s Funny, Dark ‘Troilus and Cressida’
New Fortune Theatre Company won’t rest on its laurels, as it’s announced plans for its next production. Meanwhile, its mixed-bag ‘Troilus and Cressida’ on July 25 not only funded the piece but also made us very glad that the forecast show is in New Fortune’s hands.
Read MoreSD Rep Opens 40th Season With Southern Odyssey ‘Violet’
In the sullen south of the early 1960s, a sweetly intense young woman is on a Greyhound Bus quest to find a television evangelist who will wipe away her childhood scars with a miracle
Read More‘Fallen Angels’ Ignores the Important Stuff
Men do enjoy fooling themselves into thinking they’re something they’re not, and it’s their wives’ job to join in the fun accordingly. That’s the take-away from North Coast Repertory Theatre’s ‘Fallen Angels.’ Now, if it only had some characters to impart the lesson…
Read MoreTwelfth Night Goes Navy at Hotel Del for Lamb’s Players
Twelfth Night lands in the Hotel del Coronado around 1949 and all is intact, especially the songs.
Read MoreJohn Logan Impersonates David Mamet in SD Rep’s Excellent ‘Red’
In terms of its intent, fine art is about as subjective an enterprise as you’ll find. Famed abstract expressionist Mark Rothko will have none of that, and that’s one thing that makes San Diego Repertory Theatre’s ‘Red’ so good.
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