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FEATURE/PREVIEW: “BLACK ARTIST COLLECTIVE and Juneteenth

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 6/13/21 RUN DATES: 6/13/21 - 6/19/21 VENUE: various As so many great relationships do, it all began with Breaking Bread. That was the name of the February 2020 dinner gathering organized by The Old Globe, to bring together local black theater artists and the cast of August Wilson’s “Jitney,” which was running at the time. “It was so wonderful,” says Joy Yvonne Jones, President and co-founder (with Rich Soublet and Zack King) of the San Diego Read More →

FEATURE: 36th ANNUAL CALIFORNIA PLAYS BY YOUNG WRITERS WINNERS 2021, Streaming from Playwrights Project

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/8/21 RUN DATES: 3/11/21 - 3/26/21 VENUE: Streaming from Playwrights Project For 35 years, the San Diego-based Playwrights Project, which runs multiple programs for people of all ages, has been staging a statewide contest for young writers. It’s always been a fascinating window into what youth have on their minds. This year, the 36th annual event, is, like so much else, streaming virtually. In view of COVID-short attention spans, each play this year is only Read More →

“THE OTHER PLACE” at OnStage Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/29/22 RUN DATES: 3/25/22 - 4/17/22 VENUE: OnStage Playhouse Sharr White’s 2011 one-act, “The Other Place,” is so intricately and craftily constructed, so disorienting in its mix of fact, fiction and fantasy, present and past, that you aren’t quite sure exactly what’s going on till close to the end of its fleet, perplexing 70 minutes. When we enter the theater, we see a terrifically crafted series of TV drug ads (Audio-Visual Design by Estefanía Ricalde; Read More →

FEATURE: THE SHOW CANNOT ALWAYS GO ON: San Diego theaters confront Omicron Surge

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 1/16/22 Every theater company, like every individual, has to decide what’s in their best interest in these perilous pandemic times. On Broadway and Off, some theaters returned to a regular performance schedule, some reduced the number of weekly performances, some postponed, some canceled altogether, and others are participating in what’s being called ‘hibernation,’ going dark for awhile to see what happens, and perhaps opening in a different space from where they began. San Diego Read More →

“THE HOMECOMING” at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/8/22 RUN DATES: 3/2/22 - 3/27/22 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre If you don’t feel somewhat disturbed and unnerved after seeing a Harold Pinter play, you probably weren’t paying close attention. The Nobel Prize-winner (1930-2008), one of the most influential British playwrights of the modern age, reportedly wrote the play in just six weeks, in 1964. As in many of his other so-called “comedies of menace,” Pinter’s characters have, at best, slippery morality, if not outright Read More →

THE 7th ANNUAL SAN DIEGO THEATRE WEEK

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