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“DESERT ROCK GARDEN” at New Village Arts

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/26/22 RUN DATES: 2/11/22 - 3/13/22 VENUE: New Village Arts Last summer, for the first time in the many years I’ve lived in San Diego, I finally got to Manzanar in eastern-central California, one of the ten Japanese internment camps of World War II. It was barren, desolate and sizzling — well over 100 degrees (nestled between the Sierra Nevada and Inyo Mountains, the camp’s weather is equally extreme in winter). Hard to imagine more than Read More →

“THE BAND’S VISIT” from Broadway San Diego

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/3/22 RUN DATES: 3/1/22 - 3/6/22 VENUE: The Civic Theatre, brought to us by Broadway San Diego Ever since Moses stuttered to Pharoah, Israel and Egypt have had a pretty fraught relationship. But when opposing groups come together as individuals, despite language differences, commonalities can be found, and with a little English and ingenuity, communication can succeed, and lives can intertwine in unexpected ways. Sometimes, music crosses all borders and breaks down barriers. Actually, there isn’t much Read More →

THE 7th ANNUAL SAN DIEGO THEATRE WEEK

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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 →

“LIFE SUCKS” at Cygnet Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/14/22 RUN DATES: 2/3/22 - 2/27/22 VENUE: Cygnet Theatre Inertia is endemic in Chekhovland. The Russian playwright’s sad-sack characters endlessly pine, regret, yearn and suffer. But they never do much about their interminable complaints. (“We’ll never get to Moscow,” lament “The Three Sisters”). They’ve perfected the art of the kvetch. And yet, Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) considered his Big Four plays (“The Cherry Orchard,” The Three Sisters,” “The Seagull,” “Uncle Vanya”) to be comedies. The disputes over Read More →

“HEISENBERG” at Scripps Ranch Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/1/22 RUN DATES: 1/28/22 - 2/13/22 VENUE: Scripps Ranch Theatre Strange bedfellows and disparate types. Mismatches can be highly entertaining. And life can be incredibly unpredictable. Case in point: “Heisenberg,” the 2015 creation of English playwright Simon Stephens (whose terrific, Tony Award-winning play, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime,” recently postponed at the San Diego Repertory Theatre, was re-scheduled for this summer). The titular German physicist, Werner Heisenberg, who posited the Uncertainty Principle Read More →