Posts by Welton Jones
Globe Refloats a Masterpiece With Cole Porter ‘Kiss Me, Kate’
Kiss Me, Kate turns out to be even better than I remembered. It is fun to float out of the theatre humming the evening’s songs.
Read MoreOld Globe’s 10th ‘Twelfth Night’ is Bright and Amiable
Sexual Ambiguity and randy roughhousing run rampant in an Old Globe ‘Twelfth Night’ that…
Read MoreMagic at La Jolla Playhouse: When 9-11 Goosed Gander
A splendid, magical, irresistable gift of musical story-telling from La Jolla Playhouse drops audiences into the chaos of Sept. 11, 2001, and leads therm to joy. The cast
Read MoreOld Globe Ponders Fate of ‘Rich Girl’
Poor little rich girl, does he want her or her money. Apparently, it’s a timeless tale since the Old Globe Theatre has staged Victoria Stewart’s ‘Rich Girl’ so smoothly. But don’t expect any answers.
Read MoreShaw wrestles Romanticism at the Old Globe Theatre
George Bernard Shaw took aim at the prevailing romanticism of the later Victorian era in ‘Arms and the Man,’ and the Old Globe Theatre’s sumptuous production, fulfilling needs we might not have known we had, helps him keep on winning over a century later.
Read MoreFeeding Barbra’s Basement Fantasy at the Old Globe
Barbra Streisand wrote a book about the fantasy mall in the basement of her Malibu home and playwright Jonathan Tolins took over from there, imagining not only the place but the guy hired to work there. Very ingratiating the result, now at the Old Globe Theatre.
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