Tenor madness at 98 Bottles
Robert Bush 11:18 p.m., May 25
Theater Reviews
OnStage Playhouse has Persuasion
Jane Austen’s characters read each other like novels. They inspect qualities, every human chapter and verse, and sum them up in lists of checks and balances. In Persuasion, Austen writes, “Her manners were open, easy, ...
In Sickness and in Health
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots at La Jolla Playhouse
“It’s almost like the disease has to win in order for her soul to survive. Or something like that.”
Teeter-Totter
The Old Globe's Measure for Measure
“The comic and tragic parts equally border on the hateful.”
Good People at the Old Globe; Exit Interview at the Rep
Margie’s lived all her life in blue-collar South Boston. Now 30 years since she was a teen, she recounts the fates of former “Southies.” Sheila Sheen od’d. And Marty McDermott’s doing time in Walpole prison. ...
Allegiance, an important musical at the Old Globe
Everything became extreme, chaotic, life-threatening for over 120,000 Japanese Americans.
Anything Goes at Moonlight Theatre
The S.S. America sails into Porterland, a place so sacred, the faithful feel like removing their shoes.
La Jolla Playhouse stages An Iliad
One of the best features of An Iliad is how contemporary references function like Homer’s similes.
Truth Attack — God of Carnage at the Old Globe
“A mouthful of rum and — bam — the real face appears.”
Before God of Carnage begins at the Old Globe’s White Theatre, Robert Morgan’s set makes a quiet suggestion. Dark objects stand on the perimeter of a circular living room. A small wet bar and sofa ...
Divine Rivalry at the Old Globe; Cygnet Theatre's Man of La Mancha
As a youth, the poet William Wordsworth crossed the Alps. He hiked the Simplon Pass, a “steep and rugged” road over a mile above sea level. When he reached the other side he stopped cold. ...
