Group 2012 March

Theater archive for March, 2012

Almost, Maine at Scripps Ranch Theatre

It's not a good sign when you're watching a play and it reminds you of another play, or playwright, more ...

Ghosts and the Brothers James

Next week, Intrepid Shakespeare Company will stage an adaptation of Henry James' novella The Turn of the Screw, hailed by ...

Tortilla Curtain at San Diego Rep

In his recent, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, Charles Murray argues that a new upper class - ...

How to Choose Which Play to Tour?

(One of my brother's many creative hats: he does freelance development for a TV production company in Minneapolis. He's proposing ...

Heddatron at Ion Theatre

The robot that ripped itself to shreds back in the 80s? May have been a sign. Conspiracy theorists swear it ...

The Cars Have Left the Lot

Car Plays closed last Sunday at the La Jolla Playhouse. I saw five (of the 15) earlier and went back ...

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead at OnStage Playhouse

To be and not to be. In Tom Stoppard's philosophical farce, "dead" is a relative term. The title says Hamlet's ...

Quiet

Whenever my sister Shirley recommends a book, I read it at once. The first time, long ago, she handed me ...

How I Got That Story at Mo`olelo Performing Arts

In his excellent book about Vietnam, Dispatches (1977), Michael Herr weaves stark reality with brain-blasting absurdity. Since he was a ...

Runnings and Goings

News on the local theater front is a Dickensian best and worst of possibilities, since two fine productions must close. ...