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Diversionary’s Good ‘Bathwater’: The A’s, E’s, I’s, O’s and U’s Have It

By Martin Jones Westlin | March 2, 2015 |

Playwright Christopher Durang has hauled out the big guns in ‘Baby with the Bathwater,’ his ode to lousy parenting and lousy parents. In this very good Diversionary Theatre entry, Helen and John Dingleberry never knew what hit ’em.

Great Schubert But Only Modest Mozart

By Ken Herman | March 1, 2015 |

Music Director Jahja Ling and the San Diego Symphony gave a lucidly detailed and energetically paced account of Franz Schubert’s “Great” C Major Symphony Sunday . . .

NCR’s ‘Chapter Two’: For Once, Neil Simon (Horrors!) Isn’t All That Bad

By Martin Jones Westlin | March 1, 2015 |

Neil Simon sucks, God bless him, except when he doesn’t. North Coast Repertory Theatre is mounting a very good ‘Chapter Two,’ Simon’s tribute to his second wife Marsha Mason and a nod to the pain of widowerhood — for once, this criminally overrated playwright is on to something.

Gil Shaham in the Cathedral of Bach

By Ken Herman | February 28, 2015 |

Gil Shaham’s Friday (Feb. 27) program, devoted exclusively to the unaccompanied violin works of J. S. Bach, created a virtual cathedral of sound in La Jolla’s Sherwood Auditorium . . .