Posts by Bill Eadie
OC’s Chance a Lotto Winner with ‘In the Heights’
Chance Theatre, Orange County’s 99-seat juggernaut company, typically stages a musical in the summer. This summer’s entry is Lin Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’ In the Heights. It’s a big show for a relatively small space, but the cast and creative team are up to the challenge…
Read MoreLots of Promise at the First Day of the Fringe
The San Diego International Fringe Festival, which took the city by storm a year ago, is back. If the four shows I saw on opening day yesterday are any indication, this year is as good as or better than last…
Read MoreEl Henry Brings Spanglish Shakespeare to 15th Street
Big, brawny, and macho, El Henry, the Without Walls collaboration between the La Jolla Playhouse and the San Diego REPertory Theatre, has marched, rumbled, and cruised its way into the Makers Quarter district of San Diego’s East Village…
Read MoreThe TCG Conference Is Here: Why Should You Care?
I’ve been at the Hilton, sitting in on a variety of plenary and breakout groups, and struggling with how to make the conference relevant to readers who are interested in theatre but who are not theatre professionals. The question that kept coming up for me was, “Why should you care?”
Read MoreFaded Glory Celebrates a Blackguard’s American History
Daniel Edgar Sickles’ life should have been a movie – or perhaps a television mini-series…The Sickles story is the equivalent of a blackguard’s American history, and its sweep is all but guaranteed to enthrall…It’s too bad, then, that Tim Burns’ play about Sickles, Faded Glory, now in its world premiere production at North Coast Rep, trades sweep for being shut up with a grumpy old man at the end of his life…
Read MoreThe Impossibility of Recovery in The Motherf**cker with the Hat
Stephen Adly Guirgis’ play, The Motherf**ker with the Hat, performing through June 22 at Cygnet Theatre, is about the impossibility of recovery. No, really. It’s also about an opportunity for terrific ensemble acting…
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