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Old Globe ‘Barefoot in the Park’ Again But Broadway Comedies Have Changed

By Welton Jones | August 5, 2018 |

The imaginary romantics of Neil Simon’s early smash hit return to the stage of the Old Globe Theatre to remind us that, among other things, Broadway comedies have changed a lot in 50 years.

La Jolla SummerFest Opens with a Sophisticated Musical Menagerie

By Ken Herman | August 5, 2018 |

This season of La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest brings down the curtain on Music Director Cho-Liang Lin’s superb 18-year tenure with the festival. Friday’s opening concert offered sublime chamber works by Bartók and Villa-Lobos, as well as wit and charm in Saint-Saëns’ “Carnival of the Animals.”

Singing Ghosts Return to California

By David Dixon | August 4, 2018 |

After an extended hiatus, the Welk Resort Theatre is once again open to the public. Welcoming audiences back to Escondido are the ghosts from the musical-comedy revue, Forever Plaid.

Opera NEO’s ‘Merry Widow’ Waltzes into Town with Style

By Ken Herman | August 3, 2018 |

Opera NEO launched its summer season with a flashy, kinetic, cleverly updated production of that warhorse of operettas, Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow. Forget about Paris of 1905–the widow returns to Las Vegas of today.