Group 2012 February

Theater archive for February, 2012

Without Walls, Indeed!

The La Jolla Playhouse calls its site-specific program "Without Walls" and "WoW." For Paul Stein's Car Plays, both apply. Actors ...

God's Trombones at Ira Aldridge Repertory Players

Director Calvin Manson fills the stage with music and dance, but the show's star is James Weldon Johnson. If he ...

William Virchis: A Most Worthy Tribute

On Thursday, February 23, the Sweetwater Union High School District will honor a San Diego icon. In a dedication ceremony ...

Next Fall at Diversionary Theatre

Young Luke is Christian and gay. His partner, 40-year-old Adam, says that's a contradiction. As their relationship grows, it works ...

In the Wake at San Diego Rep

If Ellen never had to choose, she'd have it all and demand more. Thanksgiving, 1999: Ellen, her hyper-attentive lover Danny, ...

Acting in the Moment (of Uncertainty), Part Two

At the San Diego Theater Critics Awards ceremony, Claudio Raygoza, artistic director of Ion Theatre, filled what looked to be ...

Acting in the Moment (of Uncertainty), Part One

When someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. When live theater hands you a lemon, make art. Actors perform "in ...

Guys and Dolls at Lamb's Players

In this classic American musical, Frank Loesser's songs run like New York cabs; another's always just around the corner, often ...

Craig Noel Award Recipients for 2011

Dramatic Production: August: Osage County, Old Globe Theatre Direction of a Play: Sam Gold, August: Osage County, Old Globe Ensemble: ...

Theater Critics Circle Awards: Backstage Last Night

It's 7:15. Our annual Craig Noel Award ceremony begins in 15 minutes, and no one's seen Brian Mackey. He'll receive ...

Golden Child at Chinese Pirate Productions

David Henry Hwang knocked Broadway for a loop with M Butterfly (1988). The play explained itself: a male French diplomat, ...

A Raisin in the Sun at Moxie Theatre

Is wonderful! Lorraine Hansberry's breakthrough drama (1959) is in loving, unflinching hands. Directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, the ensemble and ...

An Enemy of the People at Intrepid Shakespeare Company

In the movie Jaws, the police chief wants to close the beaches because a great white shark's been spotted cruising ...