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Extraordinary Chambers at Mo`olelo Performing Arts

In 1975, Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge stormed through Cambodia. They killed teachers, poets, artists, doctors, journalists, anyone involved ...

Spamalot at Welk Resort

King Arthur pretends to ride a horse while Patsy, his faithful servant, clop-clops cocoanuts to sound like hooves. From the ...

Insights from within: Robert Foxworth

We watch plays from the house seats or read them under a lamp. If curious, we peruse what others have ...

The Divine Sister at Diversionary

Okay, Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story, Ingrid Bergman in Bells of St. Mary's, Greer Garson, The Singing Nun, Roz ...

The Warriors' Duet at the San Diego Fringe Festival

A stage production based on the work of Laura Jeanne Morefield debuts Downtown at the first annual Fringe Festival

As part of the first annual San Diego Fringe Festival, community-based theatre troupe Circle Circle dot dot presents The Warriors' ...

Becoming Cuba at North Coast Rep

Melinda Lopez's world premiere drama is overlong: in length and ambition. It's an epic set in Cuba during the revolt ...

Moonlight and Magnolias at Scripps Ranch Theatre

Stories about the making of movie classics make you wonder how they ever got made. Ron Hutchinson based this comedy ...

Shakespeare's R&J at Cygnet Theatre

One of those "give it a week" opening nights. Joe Calarco's reimagined take on Shakespeare's tragedy pushes actors to extremes: ...

Seascape at New Village Arts

Edward Albee's evolutionary comedy won the Pulitzer in 1975. Must've been a slow year on the prize circuit. It's a ...

Bengal Tiger at the Bagdad Zoo, Ion Theatre (Part two)

If you like your war plays/movies to be recruiting posters for the next big one, then skip Ion's first-rate production ...

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Ion Theatre (part one)

In Rajiv Joseph's amazing drama, "God's Garden" isn't Eden — or is it? According to the Bible, four rivers, including ...

The Sound of Music at San Diego Musical Theatre

In a way it's like cheating. Whenever Gabriella Dimmick enters, she hoards your eyes. She plays Gretel, youngest of the ...

Chicago at Welk Resort Theatre

I've seen two versions of Bob Fosse's blazing musical in the last three months - SD Musical Theatre and Welk ...

Mr. TJ does a reading, part two

When Antonio TJ Johnson reads the part of Paul Robeson next Monday night, it will be his last performance before ...

The Coffee Shop Chronicles at New Play Cafe

The set's authentic. That's because Coffee Shop Chronicles takes place at the Big Kitchen in South Park, where Judy "the ...

References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot at Moxie

Borders blur between dream and reality in Jose Rivera's magic-realism piece, even between the Barstow desert and young Gabriela's military ...

The Odd Couple at North Coast Rep

I doubt I could stand either Oscar Madison or Felix Ungar as a roommate. Oscar's an oaf trailing cigar ashes ...

The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabbler at Diversionary

Henrik Ibsen liked to close his plays with a bang: the slamming door in Doll's House; a pistol shot in ...

Oleanna at Intrepid Shakespeare Company

I've seen three or four versions of David Mamet's mean-spirited drama about a teacher-student conference that goes haywire. Depending on ...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at New Village Arts

A rebel with a cause. In Ken Kesey's novel and its younger sibling, the Paul Newman movie Cool Hand Luke, ...

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