What to Watch in San Diego This Weekend: 2/28/14
Theatre is everywhere this weekend! What are you going to see?
DETROIT
What happens when you meet people who suddenly make you wonder if you are truly happy with who you have chosen to be? This play is the Obie winner and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and it explores the American dream and the pursuit of happiness, as Ben and Mary-a couple who are comfortably settled into their suburban lifestyle but find themselves challenged by their new free-spirited neighbors. With biting humor, playwright D'Amour challenges American cultural assumptions about status, comfort, ambition and community. San Diego Rep www.sdrep.org
THE SCHOOL FOR LIES
Molière's wit is always good for an entertaining night of theatre, but when you combine it with Tony Award-nominee David Ives' off-color tribute to "The Misanthrope" it becomes something you should not miss! In a glittering world of gossip, glamour and scandal, a gaggle of misbehaving characters chatter away in hilarious rhyming couplets while trying to woo each other. See just how hilarious that can be! North Coast Repertory Theatre www.northcoastrep.org
THE WINTERS TALE
Now is the time to see the sow with the famous stage direction "exit, pursued by bear!!" This Shakespearian masterpiece explores the powerful emotions tat can shape our life and the choices we make: love, friendship and forgiveness. Directed by the Old Globe's Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, this is one not to miss! The Old Globe www.theoldglobe.org
THE WHO AND THE WHAT
Written by 2013 Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Ayad Akhtar, this play examines what happens when our modern lives are in conflict with our traditions. Zarina is brilliant and outspoken, which leads her to clash with her more traditional and conservative Muslim father and sister. Zarina finds her release in her writing, but what happens when that could potentially tear her family apart?
La Jolla Playhouse www.lajollaplayhouse.org
CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY
Set in the 1950's, this story follows Ernestine Crump is struggling to find her way as a young African American woman who just lost her mother, her communist aunt moves in preaching feminism, and her father has turned to religion for solace and brings home with a new white wife. This coming of age, and surprising funny story about how to embrace and adapt to change, comes from Pulitzer Prize-Winning playwright, Lynn Nottage, Moxie Theatre www.Moxietheatre.com
Photo Credit: SAN DIEGO REP
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