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Clybourne Park at SD Rep

"Americans suffer from an ignorance that is not only colossal but sacred," wrote James Baldwin, referring to how most choose ...

Stage props: a tale of two chairs

"Anyone have 2 good late 19th/early 20th century Scandinavian or Danish high-backed chairs...in gray of black, or that you are ...

Talking Lear, or trying to...

This Tuesday night, January 15, the North Coast Repertory Theatre offers a one evening only, staged reading of Shakespeare's great ...

Educating Rita at North Coast Rep

In the original Greek myth, Pygmalion sculpts a female companion and falls in love with her. Aphrodite grants his wish ...

South Pacific at the Welk

Unwritten category for Broadway musicals: Don't Try This At Home, Or On A Stage - i.e. the toughest songs to ...

Consider the source: Pygmalion

On the island of Cyprus, in ancient Greece, the daughters of Propoetus refused to worship Aphrodite. Incensed, the goddess of ...

Write Out Loud: imagine a world without books

Every year Write Out Loud, the popular company that performs stories, plays, and poems has a Big Read. This year ...

The year in post-(re)view

Reviewing a year of theater on deadline's like trying to take the pulse of a lion on the move. Omissions ...

An "Unforgettable" outtake

I came across this anecdote while researching a history column. I won't have room for it but wanted to share. ...

Scrooge in Rouge at Diversionary

I wonder if Charles Dickens had any idea how much "A Christmas Carol" would proliferate. Come the yuletide season, there ...

Craig Noel Award nominees, part two

Nominees for Craig Noel Awards for 2012 include: LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A PLAY, MALE Laurence Brown, Topdog/Underdog, Ion Theatre Robert ...

Craig Noel Award nominees, part one

On February 4, the San Diego Theater Critics Circle will offer Craig Noel Awards in the following categories (part two ...

A Clipper what?

This can NOT be happening. When James Bond said "never say never," I thought he was kidding. Now I'm not ...

Irving Berlin's White Christmas at SD Musical Theatre

SDMT made a daring choice. Not the musical, which offers some of the master's most popular songs of the season, ...

Street.Art.Prophets at Circle Circle dot dot

The company's admirable mission: give voice to the voiceless (or as Jim Mullin, former editor of the Reader, used to ...

Christmas on My Mind at Lamb's Players

Okay, Manny's just a musician with a great log cabin way up in the mountains. It's got a huge picture ...

This is no drill!

71 years ago, San Diego woke to terrible news, and wondered: where next?

Seventy-one years ago, today, San Diegans awoke to cloudy skies. When the sun pierced through, those who went outside for ...

A Christmas Carol at Cygnet

At the end of Fahrenheit 451, outcasts stand around a campfire and decide which piece of writing they'll commit to ...

Plaid Tidings at New Village Arts

Bad news on the Heaven Front: for many, acceptance doesn't guarantee tenure. The Our Lady of Harrisburg bus did the ...

Persuasive

OnStage Playhouse is world premiering Jon Jory's adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Persuasion. Yeah, yeah, some may say. Another San ...