ANNA CHRISTIE
Monday, March 19th, 2012NOT RECOMMENDED
There are times when a single performance can either salvage a play or sink it. In the case of The Old Globe’s revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie, the latter is unfortunately true.
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PARADE
Monday, March 19th, 2012
Thirteen years after its Broadway premiere, Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry’s Tony-winning musical Parade at long last gets its first San Diego production—one so superbly staged and performed that it more than justifies a day trip to our neighbor to the South.
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NEXT FALL
Monday, February 20th, 2012
Geoffrey Nauffts’ Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award-nominated Next Fall has arrived at San Diego’s esteemed Diversionary Theatre in an intimate-theater production that actually surpasses its West Coast Premiere at the Geffen Playhouse, and that’s indeed saying something considering how powerful that big-bucks staging was.
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THE RECOMMENDATION
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
What starts out as an Odd Couple-like comedy about a pair of mismatched Brown University roommates soon develops into something considerably more edgy (and edge-of-your-seat) in Jonathan Caren’s The Recommendation, a terrific World Premiere drama at San Diego’s Old Globe that will keep you guessing from its exhilarating start to its suspenseful finish.
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DIVIDING THE ESTATE
Monday, January 30th, 2012
The late, great Horton Foote returned to the small-town Texas he knew so well—in comedic mode this time round—in his Dividing The Estate, Tony-nominated as Best Play of 2009 and now playing at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre with two-thirds of its New York cast intact, including Foote’s daughter Hallie in the role that scored her a Tony nomination.
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SOME LOVERS
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Burt Bacharach is back, and the Old Globe’s got him—in Some Lovers, the master composer’s first original musical since 1968’s Promises, Promises, and as gorgeously tuneful and romantic a show as you’re likely to see this or any other holiday season.
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HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS
Monday, December 12th, 2011
The Grinch has been stealing Christmas for the past fifty-four years, ever since the now classic Dr. Seuss children’s book first hit the stands, yet who would have thought then that the curmudgeonly cave-dweller with a heart “two sizes too small” would go on to conquer the small screen (in a 1966 animated special featuring the voice of Boris Karloff as the Grinch), the big screen (Jim Carrey played the hairy Green One in 2000), and even Broadway (in musical theater form in 2006 and ’07)? Not even Dr. Seuss himself could have imagined such a future for his 1957 picture book.
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ANGELS IN AMERICA: A GAY FANTASIA ON NATIONAL THEMES
Monday, November 28th, 2011
If ever there’s been a reason for Los Angeles playgoers to plan a road trip to San Diego, it’s ion theatre company’s current revival of Tony Kushner’s rarely produced Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, presented in two parts, making for a total of over six hours of thrilling, event-status theater.
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