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If you like your war plays/movies to be recruiting posters for the next big one, then skip Ion's first-rate production ...
In Rajiv Joseph's amazing drama, "God's Garden" isn't Eden — or is it? According to the Bible, four rivers, including ...
In a way it's like cheating. Whenever Gabriella Dimmick enters, she hoards your eyes. She plays Gretel, youngest of the ...
I've seen two versions of Bob Fosse's blazing musical in the last three months - SD Musical Theatre and Welk ...
When Antonio TJ Johnson reads the part of Paul Robeson next Monday night, it will be his last performance before ...
The set's authentic. That's because Coffee Shop Chronicles takes place at the Big Kitchen in South Park, where Judy "the ...
Borders blur between dream and reality in Jose Rivera's magic-realism piece, even between the Barstow desert and young Gabriela's military ...
I doubt I could stand either Oscar Madison or Felix Ungar as a roommate. Oscar's an oaf trailing cigar ashes ...
Henrik Ibsen liked to close his plays with a bang: the slamming door in Doll's House; a pistol shot in ...
I've seen three or four versions of David Mamet's mean-spirited drama about a teacher-student conference that goes haywire. Depending on ...
A rebel with a cause. In Ken Kesey's novel and its younger sibling, the Paul Newman movie Cool Hand Luke, ...
Hear the word "saint" and you might imagine a cherubic face and gentle spirit floating three feet above ground and ...
Dude comes up to you on a street in Little Italy. He's got the sniffles, and not the Kleenex kind, ...
Longtime San Diego theatergoers will remember Will "Willy" Simpson, the white-haired Puck who directed shows at the Gaslamp Quarter Theatre ...
Roller Derby girls. Maybe you’ve seen them unwinding after a match at a neighborhood dive, celebrating rollerskate conquests over a ...
J. B. Priestley's mystery/morality drama begins where comedies end. The Birling's have it made. The clan gathered for a white-tie ...
Anisa Shamis Cox passed away March 19. Chula Vista should name a street after her. She co-founded OnStage Playhouse in ...
When Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman wrote their musical collage about presidential assassins, they wanted it to be as audacious ...
Mr. Pygmalion goes to Washington. In Garson Kanin's 1946 comedy Billie Dawn's the American Eliza Doolittle. Billie was a chorus ...
In 2010, the year he turned 80, Stephen Sondheim did a surprising thing. The author of umpteen musicals - including ...