Review: THE WAVERLY GALLERY at Backyard Renaissance
by ErinMarie Reiter - December 03, 2025
Backyard Renaissance delivers an exquisite reminder: we do not choose when the people we adore begin to fade, but we do get to decide how fiercely we hold them while they do....
Review: TO MY GIRLS at Diversionary Theatre
by ErinMarie Reiter - November 23, 2025
“To My Girls” has an excellent cast and direction, and what begins as a sun-drenched escape quickly turns into a messy, deeply funny excavation of chosen family, generational baggage, and the versions of ourselves we perform for the people who know us best....
Review: MASTER CLASS at Roustabouts And Scripps Ranch Theatre
by ErinMarie Reiter - November 22, 2025
'Master Class,' running through December 14 in a co-production between The Roustabouts Theatre Company and Scripps Ranch Theatre, revisits Maria Callas in the final chapter of her performing life; when her voice had faded, yet her fervor for her art had not....
Review: WORKING GIRL at La Jolla Playhouse
by ErinMarie Reiter - November 20, 2025
Based on the beloved 1988 film but modernized around the edges, “Working Girl” at the La Jolla Playhouse has big expectations and even bigger hair, but never quite hits the mark....
Review: THE STRANGERS at Chalk Circle Collective
by ErinMarie Reiter - November 20, 2025
“The Strangers” is the kind of production that invites discussion; some will love its chaos, others may resist it, but Chalk Circle Collective handles its complexity with ambition and clarity....
Review: WHERE THE SHINING TRUMPETS BLOW at Jacobs Music Center
by Ron Bierman - November 12, 2025
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Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy's Magical Horn) is a collection of more than 700 German folk poems and songs compiled in the early 19th Century. Several notable composers, including Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, ...
Review: SAN DIEGO OPERA'S PAGLIACCI at San Diego Civic Theater
by Ron Bierman - November 06, 2025
San Diego Opera opened its 2025-26 season on a Halloween night with an appropriately disturbing opera about a murderous clown. Its unsavory plot hasn’t kept Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci from becoming one of opera’s most popular creations. The reasons for its success? A can’t-wait-for-it tenor ari...
Review: MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at SDSU
by ErinMarie Reiter - October 30, 2025
The concert version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s bittersweet musical at San Diego State University offered a sharp, soulful rewind through friendship, ambition, and the cost of success....
Review: ARMS AND THE MAN at Lamb's Players Theatre
by ErinMarie Reiter - October 27, 2025
“Arms and the Man”, the classic George Bernard Shaw play, is currently skewering the romantic ideals of going to battle or falling in love with wit at Lamb’s Players Theatre through November 16th. Under the sharp and playful direction of Deborah Gilmour Smyth, it turns 19th-century notions of heroi...