Posts by Welton Jones
At LJ Playhouse, a Low-Profile Family of Local Assassins Makes a Mistake
What could go wrong in a small local business that kills people for hire and keeps the profits in the community? Well, there is the ‘oops’ potential, as Mat Smart shows in his new play ‘Kill Local,’ now premiering at the La Jolla Playhouse.
Read MoreSo Who Wrote ‘Ken Ludwig’s Robin Hood!’ at the Old Globe? Oh!
The whole saga of Sherwood Forest unfolds in th intimate confines of the Old Globe Theatre’s White Theatre, with sword fights and scenery and quick changes, but to what end?
Read MoreAuthentic Voices Entwine For Rachel Bonds’ ‘Old Place’ In La Jolla
In a scraggly front yard four people trade fragments of their incomplete lives and an unusual buildup of hope and compassion result in Jaime Castaneda’s sensitive staging of Rachel Bonds’ ‘At the Old Place’ for the La Jolla Playhouse.
Read MoreTreat ‘Guys and Dolls’ With Respect and It is Sure to Blossom as at the Old Globe
It nearly is impossible to get a musical comedy nearer to perfection that Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows and George S. Kaufman did with ‘Guys and Dolls,’ and that seems to have been the guiding notion in Josh Rhodes’ refreshing production at the Old Globe Theatre.
Read MoreOld Globe’s Richard II More the Poet Than the Tyrant
Every age finds its parallels in Shakespeare and, considering he writes of passions and politics, why not? Robert Sean Leonard makes the deposed English King Richard II a poet, feeding on his misfortune, in the Old Globe production.
Read More‘Imaginary Invalid’ Visits Old Globe in Splendid Form With Deft Timing
Something about ‘The Imaginary Invalid’ seems very familiar. But nothing gets in the way of the visiting Fiasco Theater’s version now at the Old Globe Theatre. It’s a constant delight.
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