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Theater Review: ARMS AND THE MAN (Lamb’s Players Theatre in Coronado)
A DELIGHTFUL LITTLE SCRIPT—FOR SHAW! Best known for Pygmalion (which was adapted into My Fair Lady), Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw challenged people’s views on social issues, including class structure. In his Arms and the Man, there’s a clear message of celebrating the letting go of putting on airs, as well as a hard look at…
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Theater Interview: JAILYN OSBORNE (Artistic Director of Point Loma Playhouse, Presenting “Little Shop of Horrors”)
OSBORNE TO DO LITTLE SHOP In 1960, a peculiar minor film (featuring a minor appearance by an up-and-coming Jack Nicholson) was released to no particular fanfare with good reason: It was pretty awful. Especially poor was an ending that was probably supposed to be creepy but instead just seemed lame. Fortunately for us, playwright and…
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Theater Review: JEKYLL & HYDE (San Diego Musical Theatre)
RICHARD BERMUDEZ SLAYS TWICE IN SDMT’S JEKYLL & HYDE San Diego Musical Theatre is presenting a gripping revival of the 1997 Broadway musical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 horror short novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, commonly called Jekyll & Hyde. The story follows idealistic London physician Henry Jekyll, who…
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Theater Review: PIPPIN (Coronado Playhouse)
DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT SKIPPIN’ PIPPIN Pippin offers musical theater lovers the complete package: brilliant performances, terrific directing, a stimulating book by Roger O. Hirson and a cheeky, sophisticated score by Stephen Schwartz of Wicked fame that got more than one kid addicted to its still-in-print cast album and its soaring ballads and bouncy Broadway…
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CRAFTING EXPERIENCES: WHY SAN DIEGO’S BREWERIES ARE MORE THAN JUST BEER
San Diego is considered one of the most attractive cities in the United States for good reason: it’s a sun-drenched metropolis in Southern California. It’s long established itself as a magnet for drinkers thanks to its incredible breweries. Here, you can find not only high-quality brews but also a great place to have a good…
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Theater Review: SMALL (The Old Globe in San Diego)
SMALL IS EPIC In his exceptional how-to book Storyworthy, author and storyteller Matthew Dicks advises us to stop recounting tales that few can relate to — like the time you climbed Mt. Everest — and instead share stories that help others see themselves in similar moments. That’s how a story connects. Robert Montano does exactly…
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Theater Review: SUFFS (National Tour)
A GREAT MUSICAL, SUFFS REMINDS US THAT DEMOCRACY ONLY MOVES FORWARD WHEN WOMEN DO While much of what we love in musicals is pure fiction, history has had an undeniable flair for the dramatic — and Broadway has always noticed. From Hamilton to 1776 to Evita, political legends have inspired some of the stage’s most…
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Theater Review: HUZZAH! (The Old Globe)
HUZZAH AND HO-HUM The curtain speech at Huzzah! — which opened Thursday at The Old Globe — comes with bassoon and tambourine: silence thy phones, feed not ye actors. This bit of business tells you everything. The evening ahead will be enthusiastic, self-aware, and content to play within modest boundaries. The cast Nell Benjamin and…
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Theater Review: FOLLIES (Cygnet Theatre in San Diego)
GLITTER, GHOSTS AND GOLDEN-AGE GLAMOUR: DESPITE THE SCRIPT, CYGNET’S FOLLIES MAKES A BIG SPLASH AT THE JOAN Cygnet Theatre staked the debut of their new theater complex “The Joan” on a fairly solid bet: Stephen Sondheim. Given he is one of the great darlings of the theatre world, a musical with a score by Sondheim is a smart…
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Theater Review: BESIDE MYSELF (North Coast Rep in Solana Beach/San Diego)
BESIDE MYSELF WITH PRAISE When the lights came up at the end of Act I of Beside Myself, my immediate reaction was, “No!” I was so invested in the proceedings of this stupendous world premiere that waiting fifteen minutes to see what happens next seemed criminal. Such is the payoff of Paul Slade Smith’s writing…
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