Posts Tagged ‘Sam Woodhouse’
Funny ‘Manifest Destinitis’ Needs a Dash Less Moliere
Audience and authorial tastes are changing all the time, and that’s why a Moliere adaptation (amid its originator’s bawdy humor) might not catch up in one fell swoop. Nonetheless, San Diego Repertory Theatre’s ‘Manifest Destinitis’ is a lot of fun as it looks at a core premise of 19th-century American expansionism.
Read MoreRep’s ‘Oldest Boy’ Has the Horses, but Sarah Ruhl Won’t Saddle Up
A cross-cultural marriage brings many angles with it, especially when the child is believed to be the reincarnation of a Buddhist master. Sarah Ruhl’s ‘The Oldest Boy,’ currently at San Diego Repertory Theatre, implies that the repercussions are staggering, but that’s as far as it goes.
Read MoreSD Rep Opens 40th Season With Southern Odyssey ‘Violet’
In the sullen south of the early 1960s, a sweetly intense young woman is on a Greyhound Bus quest to find a television evangelist who will wipe away her childhood scars with a miracle
Read MoreA Classical Tragedy Reinvented: Oedipus in the L.A. Barrio
Playwright Luis Alfaro has bravely taken the story of Sophocles’ ‘Oedipus Rex’ and reimagined it in contemporary Southern California’s Chicano culture. His Oedipus is born not in Thebes but in Los Angeles, and instead of coming of age in the royal household of Corinth, he learns his trade in Kern County’s California State Prison . . .
Read More‘Honky’ Offers Laughs, Not Solutions
No solutions, but you’ll laugh a lot and have something to talk about afterward…
Read MoreSD Rep’s ‘Detroit’: Actions Speak Louder Than Words
The American way of life is built on illusion, or so playwright Lisa D’Amour seems to say in “Detroit,” a 2010 Pulitzer Prize drama finalist. The San Diego Repertory Theatre entry seeks to illustrate that for us, but the excellent production values far outstrip the premature script.
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