Josh BaxtTheaterSan Diego,
The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, a one-man show featuring James Lecesne as multiple characters, has an intriguing setup. Fourteen-year-old Leonard Pelkey has been reported missing, and detective Chuck DeSantis must figure out what happened to him. The ...
A nice guy joins the sexual revolution, Neil Simon-style.
Lynne FriedmannTheaterSan Diego,
A middle-age man, who runs a seafood restaurant and drives a Buick in the Age of Aquarius, clumsily tries to join the sexual revolution in “Last of the Red Hot Lovers.”
Barney Cashman (Phil Johnson, in a boffo performance) ...
Lynne FriedmannTheaterSan Diego,
Numbers loom large in the life of an immigrant woman whose life comes up in the minus column in “Ironbound” at the Moxie Theatre.
We first meet 42-year-old Darja (played by Jacque Wilke) at a bus stop in ...
Josh BaxtTheaterSan Diego,
Mental illness is tough to depict in any medium, let alone a jaunty musical. Yet, the Globe’s world premiere of Benny & Joon makes it work. They don’t really get the illness part right, but in the end, it doesn’t ...
Josh BaxtTheaterSan Diego,
Hamlet is so iconic it’s easy to forget how iconic it is. You can barely get through a scene without hearing a well-worn line, and feeling that renewed sense of discovery, or hearing the title of a book you read ...
Lynne FriedmannTheaterSan Diego,
After centuries of ballads, poems and other folklore culminating in dozens of movie treatments does the world need another recounting of the Robin Hood legend? The answer is a resounding “yes,” when it’s the imaginative and rollicking ...
Lynne FriedmannTheaterSan Diego,
Ringing down the curtain could very well spell curtains for an unsuspecting character in “At This Evening’s Performance” at the North Coast Rep.
A struggling company of classically trained actors is reduced to playing in ...
A forlorn woman drags a wheelie suitcase across the gravel drive.
Lynne FriedmannTheaterSan Diego,
A forlorn woman and the pull of an equally forlorn house present more mysteries than are solved in the world premiere of “At The Old Place,” at the La Jolla Playhouse.
We first meet middle-age, college ...
Lynne FriedmannTheaterSan Diego,
Psst! Looking for a sure bet? Put your money on the Old Globe’s rollicking, toe-tapping revival of “Guys and Dolls.”
In this musical fable of depression-era Broadway, con man Nathan Detroit (J. Bernard Calloway) has two loves: ...
Josh BaxtTheaterSan Diego,
If you accept divine right of kings, then loyalty should be absolute. Betraying the king would be tantamount to betraying God. But then there are the tricky realities of governance. Is the king still divine if he cannot rule? And ...
