The San Diego REPertory Theater will present “Clybourne Park,” the award-winning comedy about race and real estate in America, Jan. 12 to Feb. 10 on The Lyceum Stage, 79 Horton Plaza.
Written by Bruce Norris and directed by Sam Woodhouse, “Clybourne Park” tells the story of one house over 50 years, and the complicated race issues that surround it.
The story of a university lecturer who takes on a young woman to tutor becomes a journey of revelation for both of them in “Educating Rita,” which opens the North Coast Repertory Theatre’s 2013 season. Rosina Reynolds directs the play by Willy Russell, on stage through Feb. 3.
The Old Globe Theatre starts the year with a 100th anniversary production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion.” Shaw penned his romantic comedy in 1912 and named it after the mythological Pygmalion, a sculptor in Cyprus who fell in love with a statue he had carved. The play is a sharp parody of the rigid British class system of the day.
Three years past the bicentennial of his birth, Abraham Lincoln is still going strong. Lincoln- related books appear regularly — there are an estimated 16,000 of them already — and this year, there are two new films: Steven Spielberg’s Oscar- nominated “Lincoln” and the Tim Burton-produced opus, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.” There’s even a “Thinkin’ about Lincoln” rap song.
■ La Jolla Country Day School student Sabinia Schaffer, 15, has been selected to dance the role of Clara in San Diego Ballet Company’s production of the “Nutcracker,” 2:30 p.m. Dec. 16 and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 21 at UCSD’s Mandeville Auditorium in La Jolla.
Devra Gregory’s bio is a little unusual. She started out as a young ballerina, moved on to jazz dance, went from performing in kids’ shows at SeaWorld to being a Las Vegas showgirl and an “exotic dancer,” and then found her greatest success as a Michael Jackson impersonator. In 2010, a year after the death of the megastar who was as famous for his moon-walking moves as his music, she produced and starred in “Man in the Mirror,” an MJ tribute at Jewish Community Center’s Garfield Theater in La Jolla. This year, she won a Bravo San Diego Award for “Woman in the Mirror,” a look at her own life in dance that she wrote and performed at the Tenth Avenue Theater in May. Now the piece has been revised, re-directed, and ramped-up for a pre-holiday week at The Lyceum Space, starting Dec. 1.
“I think we’ve always had a relationship with technology and science in the theater,” said panelist Des McAnuff, the musical’s co- writer and director.
Director Des McAnuff’s world-premiere musical production of “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,” at the La Jolla Playhouse is mesmerizing. Rarely have I seen an audience so enthralled that heads didn’t move, bodies didn’t twitch, and occasionally, I saw some folks wiping tears from their eyes. The story follows Yoshimi (Kimiko Glenn), a beautiful young Japanese artist stricken with lymphoma. Her doctor (John Haggerty) informs her that she’s in for the fight of her life, and likens the diseased cells in her body to pink robots.
Musical history strikes an added note in the world premiere of “Words By,” as Ira Gershwin (Nicholaus Mongiardo-Coop) takes the North Coast Repertory Theatre patrons on a journey through Ira and George Gershwin’s great American songbook, revealing how many of their songs got started.
By Diana Saenger Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” has a reputation for being one of his “problem” plays. However, team members from the University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program are ready to prove just the opposite — even though the department has never done the show in its 25-year history. The Old Globe will collaborate [...]
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