Group "Theater" entries for May, 2011

Shirley Fishman, dramaturg at the La Jolla Playhouse, and one of the best in the business, describes her tasks. "I ...

Don and Michael coach a Little League team. Dictatorial Don, an ex-ballplayer with an injury-shortened career, says fun means winning. ...

Tracy Letts prefaces the published version of August: Osage County with a quotation from Robert Penn Warren's All the King's ...

Both mean the same thing. So why the different endings, and which is correct? "Theatre" is the British spelling. Like ...

People used raise the rent parties to pay the rent. These began in Harlem in the 1920s. Entertainers performed for ...

I read Michio Kaku's Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny And Our Daily Lives in 2100. ...

When he refashioned this piece in 2002, David Henry Hwang subtitled it "A Musical Revival in Concert." So you expect ...

It's as if Tracy Letts put preservatives into his play. He quotes poets whose words make more sense after the ...

Cygnet Theatre's acclaimed production closes this weekend. Word has it that the show has grown a good deal. How the ...

In theory, a set should never dominate a production. It should serve the story and give focus to the actors. ...

The Padres' game yesterday had all the elements of high drama: practically insurmountable odds, bleak conditions, and a thrilling note ...

At the end of Shakespeare's The Tempest, old Prospero abandons his magical powers and sails home to Milan. He had ...

Some critics don't like to admit it, but the most influential voice for selling theater tickets will always be word ...

Daren Scott, longtime San Diego actor, recently directed his first show: Sweet Storm at New Village Arts. "Every serious actor ...

No two performances are the same. No two audiences either. If you're playing a comedy, accounting for these differences is ...

At last count, Sir Alan Ayckbourn had written 75 plays. That's an average of almost two a year since he ...

During opening night of Let Me Down Easy at the Lyceum, a woman in the upstairs section would not stop ...

Theater archive for May, 2011