THEATRE REVIEWS
Confronting Social Injustice in Big, Eloquent ‘Ragtime’
Performances are ferocious in this potent musical…
Read MoreHighly physical performances fuel MOXIE’s good ‘brownsville song’
It’s pointless to recount the events that frame today’s urban life, primarily because everybody already has. MOXIE Theatre’s current “brownsville song (b-side for Tray),” however, looks close at the cause of such tragedies and at the lives of those touched accordingly, and it does it very well.
Read MoreLooking for Love in the Big Apple
Tell Me on a Sunday does not have any kind of extravaganza usually associated with composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber. There are no crashing chandeliers, dancing cats, roller-skating singers or Technicolor Dreamcoats.
Read MoreOld Globe Farceurs Scan That French Marzipan
France was so ripe for a Revolution in 1738 when somebody named Alexis Piron wrote a farce about pop poets which translates, sort of, as The Metromaniacs and offers a splendid opportunity for mindless gamboling at the Old Globe Theatre, where…
Read MoreBroadway-aspiring ‘Empire’ Debuts in La Mirada
Not ready for prime time yet, but there’s nothing that can’t be fixed…
Read MoreThe Good Outweighs the Bad in SD Rep’s ‘Outside Mullingar’
Ireland is more than the home of great writers and greater potatoes. To hear San Diego Repertory Theatre’s decent ‘Outside Mullingar’ tell it, it’s also a lovers paradise despite some pretty weighty odds.
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