Laguna Playhouse Finishes 2024-2025 Season with HONKY TONK ANGELS
by Emmy Rice - Jul 11, 2025
Laguna Playhouse will present the final show of its 2024/2025 season, the boot-scootin’, foot-stompin’, dancin’ in the aisles, country music party of the year, Honky Tonk Angels, written by Ted Swindley, choreography by Jill Gorrie, musical direction by John Massey and direction by David Ellenstein.
Review: OKLAHOMA! at Cygnet Theatre is Classic Musical Theatre with a Modern Kick
by ErinMarie Reiter - Jun 15, 2025
Director Sean Murray brings a fresh twist to this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic with a spirited, skillful blend of the classic and the contemporary. There is toe-tapping joy with frontier tension in a land where romance is risky, rivalries are real, and the possibilities rise 'as high as an elephant's eye.'
Photos: THE REMARKABLE MISTER HOLMES At Laguna Playhouse
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 7, 2025
LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE is presenting the musical comedy murder mystery, THE REMARKABLE MISTER HOLMES, book by Omri Schein and David Ellenstein, lyrics by Omri Schein, music by Daniel Lincoln, choreography by Jill Gorrie, musical direction by Alby Potts and directed by David Ellenstein (Eleanor, A View from the Bridge, Holmes & Watson). See photos from the show!
Photos: CAMELOT at Laguna Playhouse
by Blair Ingenthron - Jul 26, 2024
Laguna Playhouse is presenting the transfer of North Coast Repertory Theatre of Lerner & Loewe’s CAMELOT. See production photos here!
CAMELOT Extends at North Coast Repertory Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Jun 10, 2024
North Coast Repertory Theatre is now presenting CAMELOT, brilliantly adapted for intimate theatres. Lerner & Loewe’s Tony Award-winning fairy-tale musical resounds with such memorable songs as “I Loved You Once in Silence,” “If Ever I would Leave You,” and the beloved title song, “Camelot.”
Photos: CAMELOT At North Coast Repertory Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 4, 2024
North Coast Repertory Theatre will present CAMELOT, Lerner & Loewe’s Tony Award-winning fairy-tale musical resounds with such memorable songs as “I Loved You Once in Silence,” “If Ever I would Leave You,” and the beloved title song, “Camelot.” See photos from the production.
Moonlight Stage Productions Presents Reimagined CINDERELLA
by Marissa Tomeo - May 21, 2022
A trio of creatives are making their Moonlight debuts and are leading Moonlight Stage Productions’ second show of its 41st summer season, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” with performances at the Moonlight Amphitheatre. Featured amongst the cast are some of San Diego’s most treasured theatre veterans in starring roles.
BWW Review: DESPERATE MEASURES is a 'Madcap Musical Melodrama' at North Coast Repertory Theatre
by E.H. Reiter - Jan 18, 2022
DESPERATE MEASURES turns one of Shakespeare's “problem play’s” MEASURE OF MEASURE, into a madcap musical melodrama that will leave you laughing. Gunslingers to Governors, Sheriff’s to Saloon Girls, and Priests to Postulants, this musical has a variety of characters up to zany hijinks for you to enjoy through February 12th at North Coast Repertory Theatre.
Photos: Inside the West Coast Premiere of DESPERATE MEASURES At North Coast Repertory Theatre
by Marissa Tomeo - Jan 16, 2022
North Coast Repertory Theatre is set to stage a musical comedy that takes Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and shakes it up. Set in the Wild West, this is a romantic musical that manages to address law and order, justice and hypocrisy. Loaded with laughs and toe-tapping music, Desperate Measures features music by David Friedman and and a book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg.