Posts Tagged ‘play’
Cracking the Closet Gets an A for Effort
bare: a pop opera has been called a “cult favorite.” First performed in Los Angeles in 2000, the show made its New York debut off-Broadway in 2004 and was presented in a revised version during the 2012-13 off-Broadway season. Diversionary Theatre has mounted its largest and most complex production to date in bringing the original version to San Diego. The result makes an A for effort, if not always for achievement…
Read MoreOC’s Chance a Lotto Winner with ‘In the Heights’
Chance Theatre, Orange County’s 99-seat juggernaut company, typically stages a musical in the summer. This summer’s entry is Lin Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’ In the Heights. It’s a big show for a relatively small space, but the cast and creative team are up to the challenge…
Read MoreEl Henry Brings Spanglish Shakespeare to 15th Street
Big, brawny, and macho, El Henry, the Without Walls collaboration between the La Jolla Playhouse and the San Diego REPertory Theatre, has marched, rumbled, and cruised its way into the Makers Quarter district of San Diego’s East Village…
Read MoreFaded Glory Celebrates a Blackguard’s American History
Daniel Edgar Sickles’ life should have been a movie – or perhaps a television mini-series…The Sickles story is the equivalent of a blackguard’s American history, and its sweep is all but guaranteed to enthrall…It’s too bad, then, that Tim Burns’ play about Sickles, Faded Glory, now in its world premiere production at North Coast Rep, trades sweep for being shut up with a grumpy old man at the end of his life…
Read MoreThe Impossibility of Recovery in The Motherf**cker with the Hat
Stephen Adly Guirgis’ play, The Motherf**ker with the Hat, performing through June 22 at Cygnet Theatre, is about the impossibility of recovery. No, really. It’s also about an opportunity for terrific ensemble acting…
Read MoreBeth Malone’s Rising Star Boosts Annie Get Your Gun
Beth Malone’s on the verge of stardom? Seems so. And, she’s giving a star’s performance in the San Diego Musical Theatre production of Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun…
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