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Theater review: Curtains at Coronado Playhouse

San Diego really is a great theater town. If it weren’t, a community theater like Coronado Playhouse would be a little bit nuts to put on a show like Kander …

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Theater review: 3 Summers of Lincoln

Full disclosure: your humble correspondent has never seen Hamilton. So I can’t make any sort of informed judgment about whether or not La Jolla Playhouse has succeeded in Hamiltoning Lincoln …

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Theater review: What the Constitution Means to Me at North Coast Rep

Playwright Heidi Schreck’s interrogation of our nation’s founding document is just about as clever and engaging a way as I can imagine to get theater audiences to reconsider its worth …

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Theater review: The Dark Heart of Dooley Stevens

Dooley Stevens is a big man with a violent past, fresh out of the joint on a cycle that’s running on empty as he searches in the desert for something …

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Lamb's Players Theater: Once more, with feeling

Lamb’s Players Theater scored a hit in 2018 with its production of Once, and has brought nearly the entire cast back for another run at it, lo these seven years later. Let’s take a gander …

February 18, 2025

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Appropriate: a Southern family drama about Southern family dramas

The words at the top of the poster for Appropriate at The Old Globe caught my eye as I headed to Will Call: “Ferociously Theatrical.” Theatrical? Don’t most plays take place in a theater, ferociously or otherwise? But by …

February 17, 2025

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March 31, 2020

All the internet's a stage: the Old Globe goes online

Did you ever hear the one about the guy who started up a new gig as a theater critic right as a global pandemic made public gatherings immoral and possibly even illegal? No? Just as …

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March 11, 2020

In the company of Sweet Charity

Here, in the third show of its ninth season, the Oceanside Theatre Company decided to do something they hadn’t done before, not even during their first-ever musical, last year’s Man of La Mancha: big production …

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March 4, 2020

The transitions of Sylvan Oswald’s A Kind of Weather

Kid, the handsome, frenetic young trans writer surprised by a visit from his father Grey at the outset of Sylvan Oswald’s A Kind of Weather, is not the play’s main character. This is not a …

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February 26, 2020

Madeleine George’s Hurricane Diane: devoted to Dionysus

There are many amusing moments in Madeleine George’s Hurricane Diane. That's to be expected, given its premise: sending the Greek god Dionysus — here rendered as the butch lesbian Diane — on a mission to …

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February 19, 2020

August Wilson’s Jitney ripples and runs like fabric

Playwright August Wilson is rightly celebrated for his wordsmithing — or maybe word-weaving would be better, or word-spinning. The talk that animates his late-’70s work Jitney (though it wasn’t produced until 1996) doesn’t feel worked-over …

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February 12, 2020

Lauren Yee returns to her one basic story

Rob Lufty’s “From the Director” letter in the program for Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap notes that “Lauren often talks about how every playwright has one basic story that they are trying to perfect with …

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Short takes: Jitney and Italian-American Reconciliation

No full review this week, but I did stop by Jitney at the Old Globe and Italian-American Reconciliation at Scripps Ranch Theatre. Cheers!

February 7, 2020

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Tricky Irish: Bloomsday traces wanderings of James Joyce’s Ulysses

G. K. Chesterton, in his poem The Ballad of the White Horse, famously wrote that “The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry and all …

January 29, 2020

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January 22, 2020

Stephen Karam’s The Humans gets tense

San Diego Repertory Theatre’s production of Stephen Karam’s The Humans does a good deal of stage-setting before you even take your seat. A display by the box office provides “a behind-the scenes glimpse of the …

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January 15, 2020

Jean Genet’s The Maids baffles

Toward the end of the Nervous Theatre’s production of Jean Genet’s The Maids — which, by the time you read this, will have departed for Seattle after a one-weekend run at the Tenth Avenue Arts …

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