STUPID FUCKING BIRD

San Diegans can rejoice at the arrival of Aaron Posner’s supremely theatrical, deliciously meta, hilariously scabrous take on Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. As for Angelinos who missed Stupid Fucking Bird at The Theatre @ Boston Court a couple years back, or who simply want the chance to re-experience it with exhilaratingly fresh direction and a daringly diverse cast, Cygnet Theatre is just a road trip away.
(read more)

THE BOY WHO DANCED ON AIR

As the centuries-old Afghan tradition of Bacha Bazi (i.e. selling boys from poor families to wealthy masters to serve as their private entertainment) continues well into the present day, a couple of teenage dancers fall into first love in Tim Rosser and Charlie Sohne’s gorgeous and powerful The Boy Who Danced On Air, the latest World Premiere musical from San Diego’s Diversionary Theatre.
(read more)

IN YOUR ARMS

Dance and romance reign supreme in In Your Arms, as thrilling an Old Globe World Premiere as I’ve seen in a good long while and one that most definitely deserves to be Broadway-bound.
(read more)

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

A pair of Ovation-winning leading men, a sextet of glamorous drag queens, and a dozen or so Jerry Herman show tunes are just three reasons to take a road trip down south to catch San Diego Musical Theatre’s splendid revival of Herman’s and Harvey Fierstein’s La Cage Aux Folles.
(read more)

BIG FISH

Big Fish The Musical may have floundered on Broadway two years back, but it’s the furthest thing from a flop given the emotional depth and heart of Steven Glaudini’s direction and the abundant pizzazz of Karl Warden’s choreography at Vista’s Moonlight Amphitheatre.
(read more)

SHREK THE MUSICAL

The big green ogre known throughout the world as Shrek comes to magical musical life under the Vista stars as Moonlight Stage Production offers San Diego-area audiences a supremely crowd-pleasing staging of the multiple Tony-nominated Broadway hit Shrek The Musical.

(read more)

UP HERE

RECOMMENDED

The voices inside a neurotic computer whiz’s head take on decidedly human form in the latest from the La Jolla Playhouse, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez’s tuneful if overly ambitious musical romcom Up Here, a show that earns high points for the Oscar-winning couple’s score (and the talents who bring its World Premiere to life in La Jolla) but could prove too Out There for future mainstream success.
(read more)

DOGFIGHT

Dogfight, the Louise Lortel Award-winning Outstanding Musical of 2012, has at long last arrived in Southern California at San Diego’s Cygnet Theatre in a production that is (to quote from one of the show’s best songs) “Nothing Short Of Wonderful.”
(read more)

« Older Entries Newer Entries » « Older Entries Newer Entries »