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FEATURE: Pablo Picasso Comes to Life in a Pandemic-fueled stage-to-screen adaptation

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/24/20 RUN DATES: 9/17/20 - 10/14/20 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre You are hereby invited to spend “A Weekend with Pablo Picasso.” Okay, maybe not a whole weekend… but the length of a feature film about a weekend. The solo theater piece of the same name, a tour de force written and performed by Herbert Sigüenza, premiered in 2010 at the San Diego Repertory Theatre (which commissioned it), was reprised there in 2013. Last year, it Read More →

FEATURE: Blindspot Collective Produces ‘Radically Inclusive’ Theater Spotlighting Unheard Voices

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/20/20 A collective is a cooperative enterprise. The 3½-year old Blindspot Collective is a nonprofit theater group that produces what they call “radically inclusive programming at the intersection of advocacy, education, and entertainment.” Their focus is “community-engaged theater that spotlights unheard voices.” They chose Blindspot for their name, says co-founder Catherine Hanna Schrock, “because our work seeks to capture the issues, people, groups and modes of theater that may not be in the center of our Read More →

“DEAR JACK, DEAR LOUISE” by mail from The Old Globe

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 7/2/21 RUN DATES: 7/1/21 - 8/26/21 VENUE: The Old Globe If there’s one thing the pandemic has taught us, it’s how endlessly inventive, resourceful, resilient and remarkable the theater community is. Hard on the heels of the Zoom readings and concerts came audio plays and imaginatively and effectively filmed productions, mostly shot onstage in an empty house. There have also been experiential theater pieces of various types. And now, along comes a new twist from The Read More →

“LIT” streaming from Blindspot Collective

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 4/16/21 RUN DATES: 4/16/21 - 5/16/21 VENUE: Blindspot Collective “Find your light.” It’s a central tenet of theater performers — and a major theme of Blindspot Collective’s latest virtual production, a world premiere musical, “Lit.” Loosely (if not fully successfully) tied to the ghost light that burns in every theater, the musical based on multicultural myths and folktales is set backstage in an empty theater (California Center for the Arts, Escondido, which commissioned the piece). We’re first Read More →

“MISS YOU LIKE HELL” from Patio Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/2/21 RUN DATES: 7/30/21 - 8/14/21 VENUE: Patio Playhouse at Kt Carson Park Immigration. Incarceration. Separation. Deportation. We hear and read these words every day, but they often feel distant, disembodied, just a list of disastrous statistics. We know the issues, but not always the individuals, or the personal toll, the struggles, repercussions and heartaches that are inherent in the problem. Playwright/lyricist Quiara Alegria Hudes, whose work has won Tony Awards (“In the Heights”) and the Read More →

2021 IN REVIEW: Best San Diego Theater of the Year

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/28/21 Whew! Whatta year! What a two-year debacle, actually. It’s been harrowing, distressing, depressing, anxiety-provoking and more. Oh, and lately, increasingly contagious. Just when we were getting back to going out to the theater… things aren’t looking so good again for indoor gatherings. Sigh. Theater cancellations have hit New York hard, and started to trickle in, in San Diego, at the end of the year. 2021 was sort of the inverse of 2020, which started Read More →