Last summer, Intrepid mounted a three-week, workshop production of Shakespeare's popular comedy. It became such a hit that word of mouth could have filled the house for weeks, maybe even months, to come. Due to popular demand, Intrepid has re-staged …

"I don't think writers are sacred," Tom Stoppard told an interviewer, "but words are. They deserve respect." Stoppard's statement may have come, in part, from his first experience as a playwright. A student company, the Oxford Players, was staging an …

San Diego's first annual Fringe Festival, by all accounts, was a hit. We saw all kinds of experimental work rarely done around here, and hope next year continues what should become a longstanding tradition. Anyone needing a testimony to the …

Thursday | 25 TWANG GANG: FEMME FATALE–INSPIRED SILENT ART AUCTION Five female artists will showcase their artwork in a silent auction. Featured artist Jessica Krantz, known for her Días de los Muertos art, will show new material. The other four …

Recently-inaugurated City Heights neighborhood celebrates Vietnamese heritage.

Last month, a six-block stretch of El Cajon Boulevard (between Euclid and Highland) in City Heights was officially designated “Little Saigon Cultural and Commercial District,” highlighting a neighborhood where nearly three-quarters of businesses are owned by Vietnamese-Americans. From Friday, July …

A National Parks guide from the Reader's traveler-submitted travel section.

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It's hard to believe that what we take for granted these days was so revolutionary when Company premiered in 1970. The Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical has no plot, songs don't develop character or further the action, and the piece may …

Thursday | 18 FREEDOM OF SPEECHMoxie Theatre presents Eliza Jane Schneider’s 34-character solo performance about her “spiritual quest” across America “in a second-hand ambulance,” asking all she met “What’s going on?” Delicia Turner Sonnenberg directs.WHEN: 8:00 p.m. (through August 11)WHERE: …

Contender Carl and Mayor Bob react....

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Grant Hill backyard circus celebrates over 500 shows with a live narration of their history.

For about four years now, San Diego’s longest-running backyard variety show - Technomania Circus - has been performing their one-of-a-kind blacklight/negative space puppetry accompanied by circus acts and performance art. On Saturday, July 13, Technomania will be celebrating over 500 …

Thursday | 11 BEST OF THE DECADES: MILLENNIUM COMFORT FOOD Chef Katherine Emmenegger instructs. Recipes: roasted cauliflower soup; chipotle grilled chicken Cobb salad; BLT; mac-n-cheese; savory smoked salmon bread pudding; blackberry crème brûlée. $36. WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. …

Coronado kids set up for summer with their own sno-cone business

Just across C Street from Coronado's Spreckels Park, four kids are making out like bandits with their version of Lucy’s lemonade stand. Except they're selling sno-cones, $2 each. Mackenzi, Eli, Keira and Amy have their family’s Spreckels Sno-Cone stand outside …

Performances at the Fringe run around 60 minutes. The six sketches for Stiff Love have less than 1/6th that time, since they must set the stage with minimal but expressive props, and present a one-act play in less than 10 …

"There are very few jobs where you invite people to watch your work," says Hannah Logan, and even fewer "where people write about your work." One of the latter is performance art which, after a long search, has become Logan's …

If you've already seen some Fringe Festival shows, you might have noticed a recurring theme, in the stories and the telling: difference. Many are about "outsiders," people condemned by traditional society to the margin and beyond. And the tales are …

Oyster Boy, by Haste Theatre. The London-based company's "an international, all-female ensemble of six-passionate theatre-makers." They tell a "dark" tale with a lightness verging on buoyancy. The combination's arresting: a story performed larger than life about a tragedy. The idea …

Over 40 Baja craft brewers will be on hand along with gourmet food vendors and local musicians.

Head south for a taste of Baja’s bourgeoning craft beer culture on Friday, July 19 and Saturday, July 21 (2 p.m. through 2 a.m.), when Cerveceros Acabc present the sixth installment of the roving Baja BeerFest (Avenida Revolucion in front …

The inaugural San Diego Fringe Festival won't have a "Best of the Fringe" showcase. What this means: Sean Sullivan will only perform his astonishing tour de force two more times. Redboots is a double-homecoming for Sullivan, a former San Diegan, …

Ubu Roi, by Alfred Jarry. Jarry (1873-1907) loathed all things bourgeois so much he made himself an anti-saint. He dressed and acted like a clown and adopted the role of Pere Ubu, in real life, from a character in a …

Polen presents the Organics Fair at the Tijuana Urban Compost Center.

The folks behind Arts & Trees seasonal artisan market and the bi-annual Vegetarian Cuisine & Arts Festival continue to support sustainable culture in Tijuana with an Organics Fair. On Saturday, July 6 from 9 to 3 p.m., Polen will be …