Group 2011 August

Theater archive for August, 2011

Audrey II: Fruitful and Multiplying

At the end of Little Shop of Horrors, Audrey II -- the carnivore plant that looks like a Great Green ...

2 Pianos 4 Hands at North Coast Rep.

Sociologist Malcolm Gladwell says to be a success at anything takes 10,000 hours of honing your skills (roughly a decade). ...

A Gripe from the Doldrums

Between now and September 10, local theater has few openings. The summer shows are still running, and the restarting of ...

When "I Know Where I've Been" Almost Didn't Get There

"There's a light In the darkness Though the night Is black as my skin. There's a light Burning bright Showing ...

Trying at Lamb's Players Theatre

When not assaulted by the infirmities of old age, or "senior moments" in which memory calls a time out, Judge ...

O'Neill's Absent Youth

An exercise for writers: compose a long account of your childhood, only make it the opposite of the one you ...

Ah, Wilderness at New Village Arts

It's like a parallel universe apart from Eugene O'Neill's other plays. After he wrote Mourning Becomes Electra and lived the ...

Spring Awakening at San Diego Actors Conservatory Theatre

We're in the midst of an unplanned rock musical festival (Tommy at the Rep, Little Shop of Horrors at Cygnet, ...

Managing Tommy

In the prologue to The Who's Tommy, which closes this Sunday at the Rep., five WWII paratroopers stand in a ...

Gonzalo's Utopia

Shakespeare's The Tempest takes place on a mysterious island. In the Old Globe's terrific production, after a mighty storm, a ...

Oh Pshaw!

There have been few productions of George Bernard Shaw plays in the last decade. He's currently at the Sheryl and ...

Franny & Lenny: A Post-view

I've been a fixed fan of Leonard Bernstein's work, which Hershey Felder's now performing at the Old Globe. But I ...