Staff Blog Entries

Bengal Tiger at the Bagdad Zoo, Ion Theatre (Part two)

If you like your war plays/movies to be recruiting posters for the next big one, then skip Ion's first-rate production ...

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Ion Theatre (part one)

In Rajiv Joseph's amazing drama, "God's Garden" isn't Eden — or is it? According to the Bible, four rivers, including ...

Mule Hill: Field Notes

The Mule Hill Historic Trail begins near a golf driving range. With an imaginative twist, the sounds of cracking and ...

On the trail of San Diego history: Mule Hill

If you drive Interstate 15, just south of Via Rancho Parkway you'll pass a major local landmark without knowing it. ...

The Sound of Music at San Diego Musical Theatre

In a way it's like cheating. Whenever Gabriella Dimmick enters, she hoards your eyes. She plays Gretel, youngest of the ...

Chicago at Welk Resort Theatre

I've seen two versions of Bob Fosse's blazing musical in the last three months - SD Musical Theatre and Welk ...

Mr. TJ does a reading, part two

When Antonio TJ Johnson reads the part of Paul Robeson next Monday night, it will be his last performance before ...

Mr. TJ does a reading, part one

The timing's both perfect and sad. On Monday, May 6, Vagabond Theatre Project will do a staged reading of Ed ...

The Coffee Shop Chronicles at New Play Cafe

The set's authentic. That's because Coffee Shop Chronicles takes place at the Big Kitchen in South Park, where Judy "the ...

References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot at Moxie

Borders blur between dream and reality in Jose Rivera's magic-realism piece, even between the Barstow desert and young Gabriela's military ...

The Odd Couple at North Coast Rep

I doubt I could stand either Oscar Madison or Felix Ungar as a roommate. Oscar's an oaf trailing cigar ashes ...

The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabbler at Diversionary

Henrik Ibsen liked to close his plays with a bang: the slamming door in Doll's House; a pistol shot in ...

Oleanna at Intrepid Shakespeare Company

I've seen three or four versions of David Mamet's mean-spirited drama about a teacher-student conference that goes haywire. Depending on ...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at New Village Arts

A rebel with a cause. In Ken Kesey's novel and its younger sibling, the Paul Newman movie Cool Hand Luke, ...

Damien at Lamb's Players

Hear the word "saint" and you might imagine a cherubic face and gentle spirit floating three feet above ground and ...

Accomplice: San Diego, by La Jolla Playhouse

Dude comes up to you on a street in Little Italy. He's got the sniffles, and not the Kleenex kind, ...

Grey Gardens at Ion Theatre

Longtime San Diego theatergoers will remember Will "Willy" Simpson, the white-haired Puck who directed shows at the Gaslamp Quarter Theatre ...

An Inspector Calls at Scripps Ranch

J. B. Priestley's mystery/morality drama begins where comedies end. The Birling's have it made. The clan gathered for a white-tie ...

Anisa Shamis Cox

Anisa Shamis Cox passed away March 19. Chula Vista should name a street after her. She co-founded OnStage Playhouse in ...

Assassins at Cygnet Theatre

When Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman wrote their musical collage about presidential assassins, they wanted it to be as audacious ...