Group 2012 April

Theater archive for April, 2012

Respect: A Musical Celebration of Women at the Lyceum

About half way into Dorothy Marcic's revue, a shiny black rotary phone sits on a chair center-stage. Kelsey Venter kneels ...

A Look Back

Cygnet Theatre's extraordinary Parade must close this weekend. The musical tells the story of Leo Frank, a Southern Jew wrongly ...

Deconstruction of a Drag Queen at Circle Circle dot dot

Shaun Tuazon's terrific performance shoots a sure arc through a production filled with highs and lows. He plays Michael, a ...

Ripples from Walden Pond

I used to teach in humanities programs. We began one with Henry David Thoreau's Walden. Student read it, took its ...

This at North Coast Repertory Theatre

Slouching towards 40-something. A year ago Jane and Roy had an ideal marriage, if seen from afar; Tom and Marrell ...

The Pride at Diversionary Theatre

For Alexi Kaye Campbell's difficult drama, Diversionary imported director Glenn Paris, from Ion Theatre, and three Craig Noel Award-winning actors: ...

A Man, His Wife, and His Hat at Moxie Theatre

Sir Isaac Newton was wrong. Gravity isn't the only law of the land. In Lauren Yee's 90-minute, surrealistic piece, love ...

Turn of the Screw at Intrepid Shakespeare Company

In Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptation, Henry James' spooky tale isn't a traditional ghost story. It's more like a demonic possession. Or ...

The deplorable state of theatre, and the coverage of same, in San Diego

A message to theatre decision-makers and the audiences they are killing off By Kevin Six Yes, kids. The Old Globe ...

Stage Directions

Someone once said, "to write a mystery, you can't be mysterious. You must be precise." Sam Shepard's experiments with form ...