Posts Tagged ‘satire’
No Business Like Show Business in North Coast Rep’s ‘Forbidden Broadway’
The most poignant number dealt with theatre as a business…
Read More‘Admissions’ at OnStage Satirically Probes Race in Daily Life
OnStage Playhouse takes advantage of a solid cast to explore how race and racism has crept into daily life during a period of sharply contrasting ideological differences…
Read MoreRep’s ‘Bad Hombres’ Riffs on Moliere in Latinx Style
Herbert Siguenza’s current Rep world premiere starts with Moliere, stirs in Shakespeare and a taste of Oscar Wilde, and produces a farcial take on, of all things, the Sinaloan narco culture…
Read MoreMoxie Gives a Fine Production to a Mess of a ‘Yoga Play’
Moxie Theatre concludes its fourteenth season with Dipika Guha’s Yoga Play, a satirical comedy that explores the fashion world of yoga. Its premise is promising, Moxie’s production is appealing, but the spirituality gets muddled, ultimately sinking the play…
Read MoreSan Diego Arts 2017: Theatre
San Diego audiences are so game!
Read MoreSan Diego Arts 2017: Theatre
On its surface, San Diego theater acquitted itself quite well in 2017…Indeed, theater here grows more practiced and comfortable with itself each year…
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