Monday, November 26, 2012
... my vote for best new musical of 2012 goes to the just opened Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, performing through December 16 at La Jolla Playhouse.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:28PMFriday, October 5, 2012
There is very little right with this lugubrious production of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson potboiler, starting with the work itself. Mr. Bric…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:13PMMonday, August 6, 2012
God of Carnage makes its San Diego premiere at the Old Globe's White Theatre, an intimate, in-the-round, space.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:32PMMonday, July 16, 2012
. In Michael Kramer and D. S. Moynihan's play, Divine Rivalry, playing through August 5 at San Diego's Old Globe, there's lots of proof of the difficulty of creation and not nearly enough bi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:33PMWednesday, June 20, 2012
Hoodoo Love is interesting primarily for its detailed portrayal of a place and time.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18AMSaturday, June 9, 2012
Los Angeles-based playwright Zsa Zsa Gershick won some awards for diversity in theatre for her play Bluebonnet Court. She's riffing on the same themes in Coming Attractions, which is making …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:06PMMonday, May 14, 2012
What could have been a vanity project for a young actor has turned out to be a serious venture, one worth supporting.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:02AMMonday, May 7, 2012
The Scottsboro Boys is making its West Coast premiere in a co-production by San Diego's Old Globe and San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater. Despite being deeply flawed, the musical …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:31PMThursday, April 26, 2012
Topdog/Underdog is an old story, as old as Cain and Abel, as old as Tom ("Mom loved you best") and Dick Smothers, as old as two of Sam Shepard's brothers dueling out their sibling rivalries …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:45PMMonday, April 16, 2012
We're neither pure, nor wise, nor goodWe'll do the
best we know. We'll build our house and chop our woodAnd make our
garden grow.
--from Candide, music by Leonard Bernst...
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMFriday, April 13, 2012
For writers, “this” is perhaps the most evil word in the dictionary. Unmodified, “this” is a sign of sloppiness of pen and probably of thought as well. Simply remem…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMTuesday, March 20, 2012
Elizabeth Meriwether’s Heddatron, making its West Coast premiere through March 31 at ion Theatre, is an uneven and smart-alecky play written by a 29-year-old Yale grad. It sure can be…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMMonday, March 19, 2012
I’ll start with a bold claim: Cygnet Theatre’s production of Parade is not only its biggest musical production ever, but it’s also its best.
The claim is a bold one, becaus…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMFriday, February 24, 2012
If Geoffrey Nauffts’ funny and multi-layered play, Next Fall, were a sermon its text would be taken from 1 Corinthians 13:13: “And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; a…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 03:00PMMonday, February 13, 2012
In the New Village Arts’ production of Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors, all’s well that ends well. Which is to say that Act 2 is stronger than Act 1.
In NVA’s (uncredi…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 03:00PMMonday, January 30, 2012
Martin McDonagh has a shaggy dog to sell. But watch out, because he might be scamming you.
Mr. McDonagh built his reputation by writing highly off-beat character studies set in remote parts…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 03:00PMSaturday, January 28, 2012
"The Recommendation" ... making its world premiere at The Old Globe through February 26, goes in the direction of interrogating the influence of class differences and upward aspirations on …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:48AMMonday, January 23, 2012
Originally produced in the same era in which the television series, Mad Men, is set, Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Ho…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 03:00PMThe late Horton Foote loved the characters he put in his plays. He wanted them to be human with all that implies, grace, foolishness, the works. Even if we don't like them we can tell that h…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:42AMSunday, December 11, 2011
It's a story that emphasizes the melancholy many experience during the holiday season, and Mr. Sater's book starts well in the get-acquainted scenes but deteriorates as melancholy overwhelms…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:55AMFriday, December 2, 2011
But, what makes this production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" into more than a pleasant, if aurally loud, evening in the theatre is the care in which the storyline is presented.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:23PMMonday, November 28, 2011
Tony Kushner’s sprawling seven-hour masterpiece, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, won the Pulitzer Prize when it appeared on Broadway and has been hailed as one of…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 03:00PMSunday, November 13, 2011
Honey, I’m not in the mood…
You’ve got to be in the mood for San Diego REP’s production of The Great American Trailer Park Musical. You’ve got to be willing t…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 03:00PMMonday, October 24, 2011
"Heroes," in its San Diego premiere at the North Coast Repertory Theatre, is a slight work that nevertheless provides an opportunity to savor performances from veteran actors.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:21PMSaturday, October 22, 2011
ion Theatre, which I’ve called “the little company that could,” has set for itself a huge challenge this fall. The company is staging two difficult plays for overlapping r…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMMonday, October 17, 2011
Mr. Lopez's new play, "Somewhere," whose world premiere production continues at the Old Globe's White Theatre through October 30, features a show-tune-loving Puerto Rican family in the late …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36PMTo say that Dead Man’s Cell Phone fits Moxie Theatre like a well-worn glove intends no criticism of either the play or the producing company. Or, for that matter, the glove.
The play …
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMFriday, October 7, 2011
The road trip as a means of finding oneself and repairing relationships is a theme that’s as old as the Black Hills of South Dakota. Yet, audiences continue to flock to the road trip s…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMMonday, September 26, 2011
The Old Globe's production of what is now officially called "Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show" is a mixed bag: about the right amount of transgression but too little camp.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:57PMSaturday, September 24, 2011
Walter Cronkite was called “the voice of God,” and his newscasts helped the country celebrate good times and kept people together during bad times. A nation cried with him when …
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PMWednesday, September 14, 2011
an of La Mancha arguably marked a turning point in American musical theatre. It opened in 1965, at the peak of that decade's idealism where everyone wanted to "dream the impossible dream."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:50PM 
