Put a Little Drama in your Life
Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 11/23/21 RUN DATES: 12/4/21 - 12/5/21, 10am-4pm VENUE: ArtsTix Ticket Center in Horton Plaza Park A win-win for all San Diegans Read the full review here. Read More →
Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/10/22 Read the full review here. Read More →
Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 6/29/21 Starting a theater company takes a mountain of passion, grit and determination. Opening during a pandemic requires an extra dollop of chutzpah and cojones (even if it’s a woman-led business endeavor). Given the aim and intention of Turnkey Theatre, it all makes perfect sense. Their name means bespoke, pre-integrated, ready for immediate use. Their mission is to provide a complete theater experience, what they’re calling Blackbox productions. In the theater world, a “black Read More →
Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/8/22 Read the full review here. Read More →
Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/14/20 VENUE: La Jolla Playhouse The La Jolla Playhouse is breaking new ground again. The company that, for the past seven years, has produced seasons of only innovative, original work, is on the cusp of something unprecedented. In March, when the pandemic hit, Tony Award-winning Playhouse artistic director Christopher Ashley was in the second week of Broadway previews for the new musical, “Diana” (which premiered at the Playhouse in 2019), about the love triangle Read More →
Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/30/19 Perusing my “Best of the Year” lists over the 2010s, I noticed first how the local theater landscape had changed. Some of the most powerful and memorable productions came from theater companies that are no longer with us — most notably, tiny, spiky/spunky, risk-taking ion theater and the aptly-named Intrepid Theatre (still alive, but focused now on outreach and education, rather than producing new work). Over the course of the decade, we also Read More →
“San Diego is a hotbed of theater. Every year, I see 200-250 productions. This is fertile ground for new work. In addition to the prodigious local talent, theatermakers from around the country come here to premiere their latest creations. San Diego sends more shows to Broadway than nearly any other city in the U.S.”
-Pat Launer