Posts by Welton Jones
‘The White Snake’ Enchants Old Globe
‘The White Snake’ is a centuries-old treasure of Chinese popular and classic literature which, in a gorgeous and lively staging at the Old Globe Theatre, shows why it deserves its longevity. Mary Zimmerman both adapted and directed.
Read MorePoets Face Death in Old Globe ‘The Twenty-Seventh Man’
Four Yiddish poets await their fate in a dank Soviet cell as Nathan Englander’s borrows from Russian history for ‘The Twenty-Seventh Man,” now at the Old Globe Theatre.
Read MoreLJ Playhouse Meets Lafayette Hotel In A Puzzling Confrontation
If wandering around inside North Park’s historic 1940s Lafayette Hotel searching for puzzle clues in a vague atmosphere of crime and danger sounds interesting, then the La Jolla Playhouse has a show for you.
Read MoreDarrell Hammond’s Narrow, Harrowing Path at LJP
No comic has appeared more often on television’s “Saturday Night Live” than Darrell Hammond. And none, perhaps, has dragged around such a load of psychic misery. In his new play at the La Jolla Playhouse, Hammond tells all.
Read MoreOne Piano, Two Guys and a Comic Tradition
Given enough talent, two guys can make a piano and a shipment of cliches into an evening of delights. “Murder For Two” at the Old Globe is proof.
Read MoreGreed Capers in Moxie Theatre’s ‘Enron’
The blow-up of Houston’s Enron corporation in 2001 splattered dirty capitalism all over the financial world and even into English colleges, where a young dramatist found a wickedly amusing morality play for Moxie Theatre.
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