La Cage Aux Folles at San Diego Musical Theatre. You have until Sunday, says our guest reviewer Jon Reimer, to “throw on a wig, put on your best pair of heels, and head on down …
October 6, 2015
Prosperina
Last Call: La Cage Aux Folles and Without Walls Festival
Style and substance run Full Gallop at the Globe
“...It’s a way of life. Without it you’re nobody. And I’m not talking about a lot of clothes.”
October 7, 2015
La Jolla Playhouse gets Indecent
The biggest problem with Indecent may be that there's too little of it.
November 25, 2015
The Aliens is just part-time work
“This is important,” playwright Annie Baker writes in a note for The Aliens, “at least a third – if not half – of this play is silence. Pauses should be at least three full seconds …
November 27, 2015
Rogue river
Though most had "lived within the shadow of the levee," some "had never even seen the river."
April 27, 2016
Beekeeper meets physicist
Beekeeper meets physicist at a party. Neither is adept at romance. Roland (the beekeeper) says the wrong thing. Marianne (the physicist who studies “theoretical early universe cosmology”) backs out. Blackout. Lights up — same scenario: …
April 21, 2016
Lady of the Word
On November 28, 1981, 17-year-old Alphonsine Mumureke was serving lunch to classmates at the Kibeho school for girls in Rwanda. She heard a woman’s soft voice call, “My daughter.” “Here I am,” Alphonsine replied. She …
May 18, 2016
Plays — like Abundance — can take you to weird places
At some point, while I’m sitting there immersed in Backyard Renaissance’s production of Abundance, I start thinking about Westworld. I know it’s wrong of me to be distracted from this harrowing, heartbreaking tale; but I …
March 28, 2017
Farce reigns On the 20th Century train
Theatrical wizard David Belasco (1853–1931) was a major link between 19th- and 20th-century theater. Instead of deep-fried, scenery-chomping acting, he demanded a more naturalistic style and detailed sets famous for their “tidiness.” He banished footlights …
March 29, 2017