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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, ...

Damien at Lamb's Players

Hear the word "saint" and you might imagine a cherubic face and gentle spirit floating three feet above ground and ...

Accomplice: San Diego, by La Jolla Playhouse

Dude comes up to you on a street in Little Italy. He's got the sniffles, and not the Kleenex kind, ...

Grey Gardens at Ion Theatre

Longtime San Diego theatergoers will remember Will "Willy" Simpson, the white-haired Puck who directed shows at the Gaslamp Quarter Theatre ...

DerbyWise: not a piece about girly-girls

Circle Circle dot dot presents a theater production about local Roller Derby girls.

Roller Derby girls. Maybe you’ve seen them unwinding after a match at a neighborhood dive, celebrating rollerskate conquests over a ...

An Inspector Calls at Scripps Ranch

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

Anisa Shamis Cox passed away March 19. Chula Vista should name a street after her. She co-founded OnStage Playhouse in ...

Assassins at Cygnet Theatre

When Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman wrote their musical collage about presidential assassins, they wanted it to be as audacious ...

Born Yesterday at Moonlight Stage

Mr. Pygmalion goes to Washington. In Garson Kanin's 1946 comedy Billie Dawn's the American Eliza Doolittle. Billie was a chorus ...

Beside Sondheim

In 2010, the year he turned 80, Stephen Sondheim did a surprising thing. The author of umpteen musicals - including ...

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