Rachael VanWormer – San Diego Story

Cygnet Theatre’s Coward Shows: One Down, One to Go

By Martin Jones Westlin | October 9, 2015 |

Noel Coward once said that he didn’t look at himself through anybody’s eyes but his own. That’s the mark of an absolutely transcendent farceur — and with a few exceptions, Cygnet Theatre Company proudly presents him as he is in a double bill.

Funny ‘Regrets Only’ Easily Survives Itself

By Martin Jones Westlin | September 1, 2014 |

We love who we love, and we’re willing to bear the consequences, at least the way Paul Rudnick’s ‘Regrets Only’ tells it. Diversionary Theatre’s latest entry veers too close to farce at one point, but its storytelling is rife with sometimes painfully funny one-liners and situations to that end.

Good Ion Double Bill Not As Scary As It Seems

By Martin Jones Westlin | March 12, 2014 |

“Edgar & Annabel” and “Far Away,” ion theatre company’s current double bill, has us locked into a future of worldwide oppression and conflict, which is precisely what won’t transpire in human history. But the production values transcend all that in this very well-crafted piece of theater.