Review: MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM at A Noise Within
Director Gregg T. Daniel conducts a muscular cast delivering a production that is as fulfilling as it is shattering.…
La Jolla Playhouse
Review: IN THE TOMB OF TEN THOUSAND CALENDARS at Moving Arts Theatre
Actor WEST LIANG, delivers deeply nuanced, emotionally quiet, and completely resonant character portrayals that enhance each time capsule, in this play about historical and generational change.…
Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Theater Palisades At The Odyssey
TP’s production of Abaire’s KIMBERLY AKIMBO, the 2000 play, not the musical, is a potent concoction of pitch-black humor, family dysfunction and unexpected does of sweetness that one would not expect out of a tale this offbeat.…
Review: SWEENEY TODD at The Gem Theater
The Gem Theatre in Garden Grove, CA, tackles one of Broadway’s darkest musicals, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, armed with every color of light you can think of.…
Review: COME FROM AWAY at Ovation Theatre
Amid the heat and haze of Bakersfield emerges a spine-shivering show of human connection, compassion, and camaraderie. One of the first community theatre productions of Come From Away brings out the best of humanity (and Bakersfield) on stage.…
Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at Hudson Backstage Theatre
With a powerhouse cast and a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about how mental illness shapes a family, Hudson Backstage's production of NEXT TO NORMAL was every bit as moving as its source material.…
Review: HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING at Broadwater Black Box
Political and politically motivated, this quintet of characters offers a blistering two-hour presentation on how extremist religious views can warp minds, even that of intellectuals. It’s a smart, timely, and timeless script that is both illuminating and alarming.…
Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at Old Globe Theatre - San Diego
The world of Barry Edelstein’s high octane spin on MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at the Old Globe Theater is much of a much, containing much of just about everything...Of Shakespeare’s comedies, Edelstein’s cast, crew and musicians have worked awfully hard to make this merry.…
Review: Immersive Rock Opera DRACULA THE MUSICAL at Nocturne Theatre
Based on characters in Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula: The Musical, with a score by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics/book by Christopher Hampton and Don Black, will no doubt attract fans of the genre and its well-known characters to see Justin Meyers bring his terrifyingly horrific yet totally mesmerizing im…
Review: THE PEOPLE OF POMPEII at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Like the playwright, several of these company members are themselves proud Topangans. Performing as they are in the center of town, in quite literally the House that Geer Built, you’ve got to figure that they have a nightly audience who will get all the hippy in-jokes.…
Past Shows
The Family Album
Singer-songwriter Mia Bing has been hustling and is desperate to break through in the music industry. Just as she receives the call that could change her career, she’s pulled back to her childhood home. The Family Album is a humorous and poignant original musical about finding...
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Part clowning, part surreal social experiment, the theatre is transformed into a playground of spontaneity, all shaped in real time by the audience. The show is part-meditation, part-group therapy session and the results are quite magical. (Time Out). The Guardian says ha ha ha...
La Jolla Playhouse WOW Festival
La Jolla Playhouse’s WOW Festival is four days of “fearless and fun activations that electrify our creative city” (BroadwayWorld). Discover more than 20 local, national and international artists in immersive theatre, interactive cabaret, gravity-defying circus and genre-smashing...
FeaturedAll the Men Who've Frightened Me
By Noah Diaz Directed by Kat Yen A surprising story about parenthood, family and future dreams. Young married couple Ty and Nora are preparing to move into Ty’s childhood home to start a family. While they are busy choosing paint colors, lamps and throw pillows, they learn that...
The Heart
Based on "Réparer les Vivants" by Maylis de Kerangal | Book and additional lyrics by Kait Kerrigan Music and Lyrics by Anne Eisendrath & Ian Eisendrath | Directed by Christopher Ashley This breathtaking new musical is an enlightening, edge-of-your-seat ride. When a young...
Derecho
Some storms you can’t hide from. A series of intense storms – a “derecho” – is bearing down on an affluent Virginia neighborhood near D.C., where Eugenia Silva is preparing for a crucial meeting. Eugenia is a politician hoping to join the wave of women of color elected to public...
The Ballad of Johnny and June
Love is a burning thing Country music royalty Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash remain to this day one of the most famous couples of the 20th Century. Created with the support of the family and told through the eyes of their son John Carter Cash, this new musical covers it all...
ACCOMPLICE: San Diego
- Tom Salamon, Betsy Salamon-Sufott; dir: Tom Salamon.
A Lonely Boy's Guide to Survival (And Werewolves)
Rao and Padma Makineni Play Development Center: - Ernie Nolan; dir: Michael J. Bobbitt.
POP Tour
Rao and Padma Makineni Play Development Center: - Ernie Nolan; dir: Michael J. Bobbitt.
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Good Night, Oscar North Coast Repertory (9/16-10/11) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Comics Reading Comics Dynasty Typewriter (9/13-9/13) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age The Soraya (10/11-10/11) |
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It's A Lot Lyric Hyperion Theater & Cafe (9/17-9/19) |
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Jane Austen UnScripted Kings Road Park (9/12-9/27) |
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Melt : The Play The Marilyn Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute (9/24-10/02) |
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Our Man in Santiago by Mark Wilding Odyssey Theatre Ensemble (9/10-9/20) |
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Erin Morley & Lawrence Brownlee The Wallis (4/22-4/22) PHOTOS |
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Binge Fringe Festival of FREE Theatre Santa Monica Playhouse (10/13-11/20) |