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 [...]
n celebrating its 40th anniversary, UC San Diego Department of Theatre & Dance will present an array of productions with an experimental edge. The 2012-13 season opens Nov. 14 and ends April 27.
It won’t be the first time the theater world embraces a rock band for a production, but La Jolla Playhouse’s world-premiere of “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,” with the music of The Flaming Lips, promises to be the most interesting.
From crafting bunnies and playing bingo to causing havoc in the life of an old flame, Margaret (Eva Kaminsky) has a lot going on in The Old Globe’s San Diego premiere of “Good People.” Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire has written a sharp script about her, with great one-line zingers delivered with plenty of laughs from amusing characters.
When you think of a Gershwin tune, like “I Got Rhythm,” you probably think of the tune as being the song. But a song is not a song without lyrics, and George Gershwin’s older brother, Ira, was responsible for some of the best.
Well staged, short, and thoroughly entertaining, “Mistakes Were Made” is a delightful night at the theater.
What makes someone a good person? That’s the question explored in “Good People,” by Pulitzer Prize- winner David Lindsay-Abaire, having its San Diego premiere at The Old Globe Theatre through Oct. 28.
When Sam Kimura (actor George Takei) is visited by a strange woman who brings him a box from his recently departed sister, his world is once again turned upside down. Sam hasn’t seen or spoken to his sister in 60 years and he’s more angry than sorrowful about this intrusion into his life.
Two things are impossible to miss on entering the Potiker Theatre at La Jolla Playhouse for a performance of “Glengarry Glen Ross.” First, there are the massive, fading billboards mounted above the stage. One features a worn-out, barely discernable “Jaws” movie ad (appropriate for the early 1980s setting), and the other champions the Morton Salt girl as the “Taste of Chicago.”
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