Paper Mill Playhouse – San Diego Story

Political Satire Brings the Jokes

By David Dixon | March 1, 2020 |

With Super Tuesday right around the corner, it is a perfect time for a political comedy. North Coast Repertory Theatre’s production of the West Coast premiere of The Outsider uses clever humor, for a hilarious evening of crazy hijinks.

Rebelling Against Greed

By David Dixon | July 28, 2018 |

Most shows from Disney Theatrical Productions are adaptations of highly successful movies such as “The Lion King,” “Frozen,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “Mary Poppins.” Compared with those musicals, “Newsies”, a stage version of the 1992 family-friendly motion picture (and a box office bomb in theatres), sounds highly risky.

‘Hunchback’ Fills The Stage at La Jolla

By Welton Jones | November 11, 2014 |

Quasimodo. Esmeralda and the rest of Victor Hugo’s 15th Century Paris will probably end up on Broadway, produced by the almighty Disney machine, but meanwhile, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” is flexing many a theatrical muscle on the La Jolla Playhouse stage.