Posts Tagged ‘Jennifer Brawn Gittings’
Opera Neo Stages ‘Mitridate’ — a Surprisingly Accomplished Work by Mozart at Age 14
This weekend at the UC San Diego Park & Market facility in the East Village, Opera Neo produced Mozart’s early opera ‘Mitridate,’ which climaxed the company’s successful 2023 Summer Opera Festival.
Read MoreOpera Neo Brings Sparkling ‘Barber of Seville’ to Balboa Park’s Spanish Village Art Center
On Friday, Opera Neo Artistic Director Peter Kozma fulfilled a longtime dream of staging Rossini’s ‘The Barber of Seville’ al fresco in Balboa Park’s Spanish Village Art Center.
Read MoreWhat Does a Big Fence Do For Neighbors? Old Globe Comedy Has Some Ideas
All this talk of fences and walls and migration is exhausting, except playwright Karen Zacarias and her director, Edward Torres, make it fun at the Old Globe Theatre.
Read More‘Cardboard Piano’–Diversionary’s Probing Political and Ethical Parable
The main issues that roil the plot of Hansol Jung’s searing 2016 play “Cardboard Piano” include forgiveness and redemption, life and death, race and colonialism, love and hate, faith and doubt, with a heavy dash of homophobia. And—let’s be clear about this—these are just the main themes of the play at Diversionary . . .
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 MoreIf Detroit’s ‘Skeleton Crew’ at the Globe Has Hope, Maybe We Can Too
The struggles of four workers on the base level of a collapsing auto industry become a gritty metaphor for a human race struggling with the grinder of past against future in Dominique Morisseau’s very american play ‘Skeleton Crew’ at the Old Globe.
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