Posts Tagged ‘suicide’
Cygnet’s Good ‘Brilliant Thing’ Passes As a Public Service on Rigors of Life
Adjusted for age, the annual U.S. suicide rate increased 24 percent between 1999 and 2014, from 10.5 to 13 suicides per 100,000 people — the highest rate in 28 years. That’s a horrible portent — but Cygnet Theatre Company’s good ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ offers the right philosophical alternative.
Read MoreSavor Every Moment in Ion’s ”night, Mother’
You don’t go to see a production of Marsha Norman’s tragic two-hander, ‘night, Mother, so much for the storyline as to see two fine actresses play off each other in entirely nuanced fashion…
Read MoreCracking 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 MoreJohn Logan Impersonates David Mamet in SD Rep’s Excellent ‘Red’
In terms of its intent, fine art is about as subjective an enterprise as you’ll find. Famed abstract expressionist Mark Rothko will have none of that, and that’s one thing that makes San Diego Repertory Theatre’s ‘Red’ so good.
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