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Theater Reviews
The Old Globe stages Richard III
‘NOW IS THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT MADE GLORIOUS SUMMER BY THIS SON OF YORK...” Jay Whittaker screams his first entrance as Richard III with such strained ferocity you’d think his audience sat across Balboa ...
Blood & Gifts at La Jolla Playhouse
For the La Jolla Playhouse’s Blood & Gifts, Kris Stone devised a spare, semi-familiar set. A gray concrete barrier stretches across the rear stage, like the one at the end of a runway. Much of ...
Small Talk
“Frankness at all counts is the means to a healthy marriage.”
A Pinter sampler at North Coast Rep; Brilliant Mistake at New Village Arts
Last One Standing
“A truck to a Texan is just like his hat.”
Hands on a Hardbody at La Jolla Playhouse.
Lynch Fever
The Scottsboro Boys at the Old Globe
The nine served time on death row — and heard the electric chair screech when in use.
Crazy Happens Here All The Time
What you expect is not all there is. The black women, for example, are the wealthiest.
In Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman writes brilliantly about how the mind works and how we make decisions. He calls one of our most consistent errors “WYSIATI,” the assumption that “what you see is ...
Taboo Territory
“No man or woman has ever crossed the line and lived to tell the tale!”
During intermission at New Village Arts’ opening night of Buried Child, a patron said, “I’m confused.” Another replied, “Don’t worry. You’ve been paying attention.” Asked to describe what some have called a masterpiece, Sam Shepard ...
The Recent Unpleasantness
In the midst of mass hysteria, Leo and wife Lucille fall in love, maybe for the first time.
Bravo, Cygnet Theatre! Their largest production to date easily ranks among their finest. Cygnet’s doing such a magnificent job with Parade, it’s hard to believe the musical had an iffy track record. Although it earned ...
Dropping the August Title of Eternal Woman at the Old Globe
To combat “the brute force of public opinion,” she must out-pure the driven snow.
The views in the Old Globe’s world premiere musical, A Room with a View, are one of the show’s best features. Heidi Ettinger’s sets re-create Florence, Italy, and Surrey, England, with enlarged postcards from 1908. ...
An Intimate Stage
Furious calls on a cell phone reveal that the car is her son’s. Was her son’s.
This is backward. When you attend a play you go from the parking lot to the box office to the show. At the La Jolla Playhouse, you go from the box office back to a ...
Hidden History: The Ballad of Juan José
“If America wants to build a wall to keep out the Mexicans — who do you think will build it?”
Dreams don’t care about time or space. They freely remix the known and unimaginable. In Culture Clash’s American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, a kaleidoscopic dream guides the title character on an official tour ...
