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What Does a Big Fence Do For Neighbors? Old Globe Comedy Has Some Ideas

By Welton Jones | June 10, 2018 |

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.

Funny ‘Manifest Destinitis’ Needs a Dash Less Moliere

By Martin Jones Westlin | September 23, 2016 |

Audience and authorial tastes are changing all the time, and that’s why a Moliere adaptation (amid its originator’s bawdy humor) might not catch up in one fell swoop. Nonetheless, San Diego Repertory Theatre’s ‘Manifest Destinitis’ is a lot of fun as it looks at a core premise of 19th-century American expansionism.

Rep’s ’60s Anthem ‘Steal Heaven’ Rings True

By Martin Jones Westlin | January 15, 2015 |

If you remember the 1960s (some of us don’t, after all), you’ll remember Abbie Hoffman, a leader in counterculture thought — and with its world-premiere ‘Steal Heaven,’ San Diego Repertory Theatre has not only drawn a good bead on Hoffman but the importance of dissension’s very place in the American experience.