Posts Tagged ‘Rosina Reynolds’
Backyard Renaissance Delivers Wicked Fun in “Abigail’s Party”
“Abigail’s Party” isn’t just wickedly funny, it’s riveting. The casual drinks party bristles with underlying antagonisms, conveyed by a superb ensemble … and when is something going to detonate?
Read MoreGetting Down to Business with Backyard Renaissance Theatre’s Pitch-Perfect ‘American Buffalo’
San Diego’s Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company opened its production of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” Saturday, November 16, at the Tenth Avenue Arts Center, a modest venue located in a not yet gentrified part of the city’s East Village that is the precisely the type of neighborhood in which Mamet’s play takes place.
Read MoreKushner’s “Angels in America” Part One Lands Impressively at Cygnet Theatre
Saturday, March 9, 2019, San Diego’s fearless Cygnet Theatre opened part one of Tony Kushner’s prize winning “Angels in America–Millennium Approaches” in a prodigiously acted and tautly directed production under the magisterial direction of Cygnet Artistic Director Sean Murray.
Read MoreBackyard Renaissance Mounts an Irresistible ‘Zoo Story’ at Diversionary
San Diego’s Backyard Renaissance Theatre opened an irresistible revival of Edward Albee’s iconic play “The Zoo Story” Saturday, July 14, at Diversionary Theatre in University Heights featuring Francis Gercke as the shiftless young man Jerry and Phil Johnson as the complacent Manhattan publishing exec Peter.
Read MoreInspiration doesn’t hold up in Cygnet’s fair postdiluvian epic
Fish soup is a pretty good remedy for the rainy-day blues, especially when the storm may well be the last. In Cygnet Theatre’s murky ‘When the Rain Stops Falling,’ fish soup is all that’s on the menu — but an overwrought story relegates it to a household curiosity.
Read MoreCygnet Theatre’s Coward Shows: One Down, One to Go
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.
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