Josh BaxtTheaterSan Diego,
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a poignant tale about how women have suffered in Afghanistan under a patriarchal culture and a series of repressive regimes. It’s an important story, but in this case, it’s weighed down by the sheer ...
Josh BaxtTheaterSan Diego,
What do you know about mariachi music? If you’re like me, not a lot. Up to now, it’s been the background music while consuming margaritas, chips and queso. Not anymore.
Set in a U.S. Latino community in the ...
Josh BaxtTheaterSan Diego,
The trouble with drawing room comedies is that drawing rooms are intrinsically boring. This is part of the problem with the Old Globe's The Importance of Being Earnest - even Oscar Wilde's spirited dialogue can't quite overcome the production's inherent ...
Lynne FriedmannTheaterSan Diego,
Are you impatient for the completion of the California high-speed rail line or eager for the return of supersonic air travel? While you're waiting, pack your bags and hold on to your hat as punctilious, persnickety, pedantic Phileas Fogg takes ...
Lynne FriedmannTheaterSan Diego,
Marriage is not to be entered into lightly when the groom is England's King Henry VIII.
The West Coast Premiere of "The Last Wife" offers a contemporary retelling of Henry's sixth (and final) wife, Katherine Parr, and how ...
Lynne FriedmannTheaterSan Diego,
In 1947, publication of “The Diary of Anne Frank” put a face on the Holocaust. Seventy years later, the Frank family saga continues to resonate as political debates about refugee resettlement currently affect an estimated 65 million people worldwide.
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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 ...
