Group 2011 June

Theater archive for June, 2011

Haunted Memories of the Old Lyceum, part one

The original Lyceum Theatre stood at 314-316 F Street, downtown. Built in 1913, it was demolished in 1985, to make ...

A Naked Stage

A cartoon in the New Yorker, March, 1938, shows three women standing before a ticket booth. One asks, obviously worried: ...

A Triangulation of Ambassadors

In The Music Man, currently at Lambs Players, Professor Harold Hill says we don't hear clearly enough. Music's everywhere, if ...

Opening-Night Rituals

Circle Circle dot dot opens The Break Up/Break Down on Saturday at Tenth Avenue Theatre. The play, by Katherine Harroff, ...

Swimming in the Shallows at InnerMission Productions

Barb feels possession-heavy. When she hears that Buddhist monks in Thailand have only eight possessions total, she decides to prune ...

A Favorite Memory of Don Braunagel

Back in the '80s, Don and I drove to L. A. to see Peter Brook's Mahabharata. Based on the longest ...

Foggerty's Fairy at Talent To aMuse

What if you could drink from a vial and erase a piece of your past? Blot out an untoward error. ...

Don Braunagel: 1939-2011

After battling cancer for almost three years, my dear friend Don Braunagel died June 3. He was 72. Don recorded ...

Becoming Violet Weston

Lois Markle quit smoking in 1974. To play Violet Weston, the matriarchal monster in the Old Globe's August: Osage County, ...

Ten Cent Night at Moxie Theatre

Hewitt Finley, the famous country singer who wrote "Ten Cent Night," just committed suicide (you can see the bullet hole ...

The Music Man at Lamb's Players

Lamb's has a summer season lined up, and the cast for Meredith Willson's wonderful tribute to Americana probably has other ...

A Chorus Line at San Diego Musical Theatre

I'd seen enough Chorus Lines, I thought, to eliminate all surprises: which stories will be affecting, which of the 24 ...