Posts by Welton Jones
Two Dozen Jimmy Buffett Songs Help LJ Playhouse Escape to Margaritaville
What’s not to like about 24 Jimmy Buffett songs from 44 years of baladeering? And a plot and you’ve got a Broadway-bound musical titled – what else? – ‘Escape to Margaritaville.’
Read MoreOld Man, Old Moon and Old Globe Make Mythology Work
The moon must be tended to or chaos threatens in the PigPen Theatre Co. folk drama ‘The Old Man and the Old Moon,’ written, staged and performed by the 10-year-old ensemble at the Old Globe Theatre.
Read MoreIf Detroit’s ‘Skeleton Crew’ at the Globe Has Hope, Maybe We Can Too
The struggles of four workers on the base level of a collapsing auto industry become a gritty metaphor for a human race struggling with the grinder of past against future in Dominique Morisseau’s very american play ‘Skeleton Crew’ at the Old Globe.
Read MoreWith Bits Borrowed From All Over ‘Finding Neverland’ Gets Comfy
Everybody knows the whole story of Peter Pan but there’s enough magic there to make its origin story into a comfortable and fulfilling musical., built of pieces from all over.
Read MoreIra Aldridge: A Hero Onstage and Off for the Old Globe’s ‘Red Velvet’
Performances from other centuries can exist only in reports but the career of Ira Aldridge, an African-American actor who played leading classical roles on European stage for the first half of the 19th Century, speaks for itself. And in ‘Red Velvet,’ now on the Old Globe mainstage.
Read MoreOld Globe ‘Blameless’: Bringing Together Both Ends of Tragedy
Even the worst tragedies leave survivors who must find their healing as they can, says Nick Gandiello in a world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre.
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