San Diego Theater Reviews
A pretty blonde actress sat behind me at a recent performance of Backyard Renaissance’s production of Tennessee Williams’ monster of a melodrama, chatting on her phone during the first intermission. “I plead the fifth,” she …
My chief impression after the seeing the Globe’s current production of Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well was how much the play reminded me of other plays. There’s a king who sets the drama in …
You can learn a lot about Gloria Calderón Kellett’s One of the Good Ones from this publicity photo taken by Rich Soublet II. The fellow at the door looks like a clueless gringo who thought …
C.S. Lewis, among others, referred to eternity as an ever-present now, at one point writing, “the present is the point at which time touches eternity.” Noah Haidle, in his plus ca meme chose play Birthday …
The note from dramaturg Jesse Marchese lets us know that Hansol Jung’s exercise in “lesbian camp” is “stupid smart, a dramaturgical mashup of theatrical sources from throughout history.” Those sources include Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis, …
[Editor's note: Regrettably, the reviews for both this and Diversionary Theater's Merry Me were delayed, and both shows will close this weekend. But there's still time to see them!]When I attended North Coast Rep’s Birthday …
Near the end of Jocelyn Bioh’s mostly winsome, mostly winning play set in a Harlem hair braiding salon, a woman who came in near the beginning and ordered microbraids says to the staff, “Thank you …
The tone is set before the stage is — or rather, as the stage is: a waitress in a Main Street diner, getting the place ready to open for the morning crowd. Making coffee, drying …
Deepak Kumar’s story of a Midwestern strip-mall restaurant in crisis is…wait, wait, is it the strip-mall restaurant that’s in crisis, or is it the family that owns the strip-mall restaurant? What’s that you say? Why …
Full disclosure: your humble correspondent has been known to bang out an occasional sonnet for the guest of honor at birthday parties. As party tricks go, it isn’t bad: the subject gets flattered and ribbed …
On the one hand, the fact that Steven Dietz’s second riff on Agatha Christie — the first was 2023’s — has been extended for a second time, such that it now runs through May 25, …
I was fortunate enough to attend the San Diego Theater Critics Circle’s Craig Noel Awards as a guest earlier this year, so I can attest that they do not give an award for Best Performance …
San Diego really is a great theater town. If it weren’t, a community theater like Coronado Playhouse would be a little bit nuts to put on a show like Kander and Ebb's Curtains, the title …
Full disclosure: your humble correspondent has never seen Hamilton. So I can’t make any sort of informed judgment about whether or not La Jolla Playhouse has succeeded in Hamiltoning Lincoln with its new musical. (And …
Playwright Heidi Schreck’s interrogation of our nation’s founding document is just about as clever and engaging a way as I can imagine to get theater audiences to reconsider its worth — or even just consider …
Dooley Stevens is a big man with a violent past, fresh out of the joint on a cycle that’s running on empty as he searches in the desert for something that he’s lost — or …