Antonio (TJ) Johnson – San Diego Story

Cast and Creatives Let ‘Smokefall’ Wash in La Jolla

By Bill Eadie | August 27, 2018 |

Philosophers and playwrights like to tackle big questions, though when a playwright writes like a philosopher it takes a special audience to appreciate the result. Noah Haidle’s play, Smokefall, eloquently challenges that special audience and those who rise to the challenge will be richly rewarded…

Bloody past is prologue in MOXIE Theatre’s quite moving ‘Kibeho’

By Martin Jones Westlin | May 9, 2016 |

In 1994 and ’95, genocide claimed at least 800,000 lives in the African nation of Rwanda, and the travesty didn’t materialize without warning. The town of Kibehoe was the site of a Marian apparition to that bloody effect — and MOXIE Theatre has staged a good and relevant entry meant to awaken our sensibilities.

Everybody Flock to Cygnet’s Shepards

By Martin Jones Westlin | October 7, 2014 |

The American Dream is in reality the American Nightmare, and Sam Shepard is here to prove it. Cygnet Theatre’s very good Shep-Rep fare, comprising “True West” and “Fool for Love,” is Shepard come alive, with two emotionally raw scripts and a scathing indictment of a country that’s clearly lost its way.