Posts Tagged ‘play’
‘A Kind of Weather’ Launches Three-Play ‘Gender Series’
A Kind of Weather plumbs the depths of how a cis-gender father adapts when his trans son is what’s left of his life. The 90-minute, no intermission, production thoughtfully presents characters winding their way through relationships they want to be intimate…
Read MorePlaywright Lauren Yee ‘Having a Moment’ at Cygnet
Lauren Yee is having a moment in San Diego theatre…
Read MoreLamb’s ‘Feast’ a Gift of Grace to Audiences
Lamb’s Players Theatre loves a good story – and they’ve been specializing in dramatizing them since their early days as a company. They’ve found another one to tell, and the result is a veritable banquet for the imagination and the soul…
Read MoreScripps Ranch Cast Loves ‘Not Wisely But Too Well’ in Shanley Play
Given societal changes, it would take a good deal of finesse to make “Italian American Reconciliation” work as a contemporary story. The Scripps Ranch production hadn’t found that finesse as of opening night.
Read More‘A Christmas Story’ Sands the Rough Edges off of Jean Shepherd’s America
The town is a loser place (you can tell because the junior high school is named for Warren G. Harding). Nevertheless, Shepherd’s phrase that captures its character is succinct: “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid,” That phrase echoes over and over in San Diego Musical Theatre’s splashy and funny holiday show for the whole family, A Christmas Story…
Read MoreQuiet Dignity in Troubled Times at SD Rep
Jeanne Sakata’s play, Hold These Truths, documents Gordon Hirabayashi’s World War II civil disobedience and the principles that informed it…
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