THEATRE REVIEWS
The Best of Times Continue
There are a few reasons why La Cage aux Folles has remained popular since premiering on Broadway in 1983. The material is crowdpleasing entertainment with sunny songs from Jerry Herman and broad humor courtesy of playwright Harvey Fierstein.
Read MoreOld Globe Has Plenty Dancing and Donna McKechnie Too
A full buffet of dances styles, stories and settings spills over the Old Globe Stage for ‘In Your Arms,’ a musical memory play graced by the presence of none other than Donna McKechnie, who won musical immortality in ‘A Chorus Line.’ The original.
Read MoreMoxie Stages a Refreshing ‘Orange Julius’
Orange Julius is not just a promising play by a young writer. It’s an assured, mature, work that challenges and moves well beyond expectations…
Read MoreThe Man Behind the March, An Ode in La Jolla to Bayard Rustin
Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream but the world heard it thanks largely to the labors of a black, openly gay, ex-communist, Quaker draft=resistor kept, for various reasons, in the background. Now Bayard Rustin is getting his ode…
Read MoreNCR’s ‘Fox on the Fairway’ Rarely Leaves the Tee
A set’s profusion of doors may or may not indicate that a farce is on tap. There aren’t that many doorways, for example, that dress the scenes in North Coast Repertory Theatre’s ‘Fox on the Fairway.’ Then again, there isn’t much of this piece to begin with.
Read MoreQueering Leni Riefenstahl
Director Matt M. Morrow gets the depth of what author Jordan Harrison is after, and his sharp production feels as layered as it needs be…
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