Group 2012 June

Theater archive for June, 2012

Pseudo-Wars

J.T. Rogers' Blood & Gifts- at the La Jolla Playhouse - evolves into an intricate saga about the Russia-Afghanistan War. ...

Out and About in Julian, 1925

A hundred years from now, students may study the movies of the past not for the plot or techniques but ...

Harmony, Kansas, at Diversionary Theatre

The premise of the world premiere musical sounds formulaic: gay men gather on Monday nights to sing choral music and ...

Joe vs The Volcano, The Musical, at Lamb's Players

John Patrick Shanley's 1990 movie script has a Scrooge-like, shocked into living arc. Joe Banks drags through his days under ...

Maybe Not Never Again

Six years ago Brian Salmon moved to Sacramento. He was on to new adventures and - owing to several negative ...

Never Again

Through this weekend, Brian Salmon plays Sidney Cochran in California Suite at Scripps Ranch. For over a decade he was ...

Hoodoo Love at Mo`olelo Performing Arts

An actress asked Anton Chekov if he could make her an artist. "Yes I can," said the great Russian writer, ...

California Suite at Scripps Ranch Theatre

Neil Simon set his 1968 comedy, Plaza Suite, at New York's Plaza Hotel. As if the Left Coast demanded equal ...

(Late) June Is Busting Out All Over

As predictable as June Gloom. Between the first and the fifteenth of this month, few local theaters open a new ...

A Play is Born

It's easy to assume that plays - and novels, for that matter - begin with some grand idea. But many ...

Coming Attractions at Moxie Theatre

Dee Dee Windom may have been a "slut of Olympic proportions," but like Hyman Roth in Godfather II, she always ...