Posts Tagged ‘play’
Less-than-simple pleasures are at play in Moxie’s The Pleasure Trials
What is pleasure exactly… and what are we willing to do or compromise to capture it? These questions – and more – are highlighted in Sarah Saltwick’s new play The Pleasure Trials
Read MoreHere There Are Blueberries explores the chilling layers of the perpetrators of Auschwitz
“I know I couldn’t have been a Mengele… or a Höcker… but could I have been a Helferinnen?” The audience leaves asking themselves that same question of complicity following La Jolla Playhouse’s world premiere Here There Are Blueberries, running through August 21.
Read MoreAbsent Lead Disrupts ‘Into the Woods’ Opening Night
Words are of consummate import in anything by Stephen Sondheim, and if one can’t hear the words all is lost…
Read MoreNorth Coast Rep Stages a Pinteresque Production of ‘The Homecoming’
It is somewhat daunting to think about, let alone write about, an author who has won the Nobel Prize for Literature…
Read MoreSan Diego is Stop #2 for the Rolling World Premiere of ‘The Great Khan’
Michael Gene Sullivan’s The Great Khan is about outcasts and how they cope…
Read MoreScripps Ranch’s ‘Love Song’ Challenges Cast, Creatives, and Audience
San Diego theatre has been resuming to some degree in fits and starts. Not everything goes smoothly, and there are sometimes last-minute changes to productions, especially among the smaller theatre companies. So, it’s not surprising that Scripps Ranch Theatre had some difficulty mounting John Kolvenbach’s play, Love Song, encountering bumps along the way to public performances…
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