Put a Little Drama in your Life
Published in Décor & Style Magazine 'Tis the season…. for something old, something new, something old made new and something out of the blue. For traditionalists, The Nutcracker returns to San Diego and Orange County. The California Ballet brings back Tchaikovsky's all-time favorite, in downtown and North County venues. Executive director Maxine Mann choreographs a cast of 160, backed by members of the San Diego Symphony. The Read More →
Published in Décor & Style Magazine Onstage this month: a few spitfires and a Spitfire Grill. The Spitfire Grill is the new musical based on the 1996 indie film of the same name. Into a town with no future steps a girl with a past. The movie, written and directed by Lee David Zlotoff, concerned a female ex-con who appears in the small, Read More →
Published in Décor & Style Magazine Old friends and enemies take to the stage this month. Peter and Wendy return, along with all our Dr. Seuss friends. And two literary masters exchange barbs after death. Peter and Wendy is a magical, musical retelling of J.M. Barrie's 1911 novel about the characters in his 1904 hit play, Peter Pan. One critic described the award-winning Read More →
Published in Décor & Style Magazine We're well into the dog days of summer, which people have been saying for about 20 centuries. The Romans linked the rising of the dog star, Sirius, to the sultry summer heat. So, let's get sirius about having some fun while summer's still raging. This month, you can have a pretty hot time at just about any theater in town. Read More →
Published in Décor & Style Magazine Summer is in full swing, the hills are alive with the sound of music, and Décor & Style is steppin' out…. expanding north into Orange County. And as D&S blossoms and grows, so does this column, which will now cover the theater scene in two counties. Like the magazine, we'll start south and move north. In the South Park Read More →
Published in Décor & Style Magazine June is… A Goddess of Flowers. A Feast of Fools. A Smash. A Blitz. A smorgasbord month of theater offerings -- and each of the poetic descriptions above is one of them. Let's start with a "Smash." No, it's not a killer tennis play. The title refers to a British term for things going haywire (as in, 'the Read More →