Posts by Welton Jones
Good Times Roll at the Old Globe With ‘The Comedy of Errors’
Shakespeare’s dizzy twins charade gets inserted into New Orleans around 1920 with surprisingly upbeat results outdoors at the Old Globe with plenty of jazz and a look that sets feet to shufflin’…
Read MoreAt LJ Playhouse Boy Gets Girl, But First There’s the Cataclysm ‘Up Here’
Two kids meet cute and eventually earn their happy ending in ‘Up Here,’ the new musical at the La Jolla Playhouse, but first there’s the amazing galctic-sized nunivers of complications between his ears that must be tamed and forced to work together. From the husband and wife teams that did the songs for Disney’s ‘Frozen,’ among many other credits.
Read MoreSherlock Holmes Watches the Quick Changes With Admiration
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson wear their sternest countenances as they probe the eerie hellhound but the real fascination in Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ is how just three actors play 746 supporting roles so neatly, especially since
Read MoreFor Best Fringe Result, Either be a Pro or Get Goofy
What works best at a fast-paced, over-whelming, unfiltered and exhausting show-orgy like the third annual San Diego International Fringe Festival?
Read MoreThe ‘Dogfight’: Dark Underbelly of Shipping Out
Which Marine can find the skaggiest date for a shipping out blast in seedy San Francisco? It’s 1963 and the Commies await in Vietnam. Time for a Dogfight.
Read MoreMany Are the Wonders Out Here On the Fringe
Voodoo, DADA, T&A and Irish effort all descended onto the Lyceum Stage downtown this week as for of the 80-plus shows being offered in the next two weeks by the San Diego International Fringe Festival burst open with very different degrees of pop. Happy hunting.
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