Posts Tagged ‘San Diego Theater Review’
THE LAST GOODBYE
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
Romeo and Juliet may have fallen in love countless times before, but perhaps never quite so stunningly as they do to the songs of Jeff Buckley in The Last Goodbye, the 2010 Williamstown Theatre Festival hit now being given a splashy Broadway-ready production at San Diego’s Old Globe.
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THE FEW
Monday, October 7th, 2013
Samuel D. Hunter. Remember that name, because if the three Sam Hunter plays I’ve had the great good fortune to see over the past twelve months are any indication, this Idaho-born, New York-based playwright is one whose name you’ll be hearing for years to come. A Bright New Boise and The Whale have proven him “one to watch.” The Few (his latest, now getting the sensational World Premiere it deserves), further cements the young playwright’s place in contemporary American theater.
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THE WHO’S TOMMY
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013
Moonlight Stage Productions concludes its 33rd Summer Season with a sensational production of the legendary The Who’s Tommy, one sure to thrill both Baby Boomers (in their teens and twenties when Tommy began its life) and Generation Xers and Millennials, Tommy’s multiple 1960s hits (“Pinball Wizard,” “I’m Free,” “See Me, Feel Me”) sounding hardly to have aged even a decade in the ensuing years.
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HAIRSPRAY
Saturday, September 28th, 2013
The plus-size mother/daughter duo of Tracy and Edna Turnblad have arrived at Escondido’s Welk Theatre in a mid-sized Hairspray that diverts, dazzles, and delights under director-choreographer Dan Mojica’s accomplished hand.
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IN THE HEIGHTS
Monday, August 5th, 2013
San Diego REPertory Theatre opens its 38th season with an exciting, from-the-ground-up production of In The Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning slice of Nueva York life, the professional component of which is just about as perfect as it gets.
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COMPANY
Wednesday, July 31st, 2013“Phone rings, door chimes, in comes company!”
As any musical theater buff can tell you, the person whose phone is ringing and whose door is chiming and who is welcoming company into his Manhattan pad is none other than Robert, aka Bobby, aka Bob, aka Bobbo, aka Robby, aka Bobby Baby, aka Robert Darling, aka Bobby Honey, the bachelor lead of Company, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Tony-winning Best Musical of 1970, and the latest sensational offering by San Diego’s illustrious Cygnet Theatre.
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THE RAINMAKER
Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
You’d think that a play that ran a mere 125 performances on Broadway way back in 1954 would have faded into almost instant obscurity. Not so with L. Richard Nash’s The Rainmaker, which is doing just fine and dandy nearly sixty years later, as The Old Globe’s captivating, innovative revival makes abundantly clear.
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SOUTH PACIFIC
Monday, July 8th, 2013
Inspired by the thrilling 2008 Broadway revival, and making splendid use of its gorgeous National Tour sets and costumes, Moonlight Stage Productions now brings Southern California audiences an unforgettable outdoor staging of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific under the inspired direction of its new artistic director Steven Glaudini.
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