Posts Tagged ‘New Village Arts’
It’s All About Her in NVA’s Pretty and Decent Biographical ‘Emilie’
In an especially good-looking show, New Village Arts wonders if the head or the heart rules the day in fueling human enterprise. A relatively obscure figure from history does the asking in ‘Emilie: La Marquise du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight,’ with topheavy but very interesting results.
Read MoreMaybe NVA’s ‘The Weir’ Would Have Worked As a Staged Reading
It’s a paper-thin veil between life and death, it is, and the regulars at The Weir pub spin the yarns that prove it. But like the ghosts and goblins that color the supernatural tales in the plot, New Village Arts’ production of this Conor McPherson play is inexplicably lifeless.
Read MoreSamantha Ginn Shines in NVA’s OK ‘Sylvia’
Samantha Ginn can do no wrong in ‘Sylvia,’ the latest entry from Carlsbad’s New Village Arts, and her castmates come up awfully strong as well. This is a pretty funny show that nevertheless tends to falter in lockstep with playwright A.R. Gurney.
Read MoreNVA’s Fair ‘Stage Kiss’ Has a Hard Time Coming Up for Air
Farce is pretty cool when it doesn’t look like farce, and that’s pretty much the case in the first act of New Village Arts’ West Coast premiere of ‘Stage Kiss.’ The mystery is that there’s not much play to illuminate it.
Read MoreNew Village Arts’ Excellent ‘Mockingbird’: Out of the Mouths of Babes
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is a landmark novel, film and play on race relations as the national disgrace they once were. If you go to New Village Arts’ excellent entry, you’ll see why.
Read MoreM’Lafi Thompson Gives a Bountiful Performance in Carlsbad
Sylvia M’lafi Thompson has been getting a lot of acclaim in the past few years for her work in San Diego productions such as Fences and Our Town. Her acting deserves to be praised once again, in the New Village Arts Theatre’s interpretation of The Trip to Bountiful.
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