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New Dancers Dazzle in City Ballet of San Diego’s Season Opener

By Janice Steinberg | November 6, 2017 |

New company members Iago Breschi and Elizabeth Fittro—and a stunning apprentice, Marta Kelly—brought excitement to City Ballet of San Diego’s show last weekend. And veteran dancer Ariana Gonzalez, looking like she had WD-40 in her shoulders, was at the top of her game.

An Opera for the Times: Laura Kaminsky’s ‘As One’

By Ken Herman | November 6, 2017 |

Choreographer turned opera director Kyle Lang gives his insights into San Diego Opera’s production of Laura Kaminsky’s “As One,” a chamber opera based on the psychological journey of a transgender woman, that opens Friday, November 10, 2017 . . .

Camarada Offers Feast of Music by Women Composers in Barrio Logan

By Ken Herman | November 5, 2017 |

Beth Ross Buckley and Dana Burnett, Camarada’s clever Artistic Directors, fashioned a concert titled “Music, SHE Wrote,” devoted exclusively to music written by women over the centuries, and presented it Saturday (November 4) at Bread and Salt in San Diego’s Barrio Logan . . .

Typecasting Is King in SDAT’S Withering ‘The Zoo Story’

By Martin Jones Westlin | November 2, 2017 |

Modernity has caught up with humanity, in all its virulent forms. San Diego Actors Theatre’s ‘The Zoo Story’ is a sound testament to that effect — besides, if Playwright Edward Albee likes his script that much, how bad can it be?