Put a Little Drama in your Life
SEPTEMBER 1999 Published in In Theater It's not a very long trip from Delano, California to San Diego. But it's been some journey for Luis Valdez. On the way from picking cotton at age six to his current residency at the San Diego Repertory Theatre (supported by a Pew Charitable Trust grant through TCG), Valdez has gone through more than the usual Read More →
Published in In Theater Well, the Eyre is clear now in San Diego… As the La Jolla Playhouse prepares to send Broadway its striking, well-received, extended-by-popular-demand, revised musical version of "Jane Eyre" (directed by John Caird, designed by John Napier), new shows are coming in and a much-respected director is moving on. Michael Greif, the Playhouse's artistic director Read More →
Published in In Theater "The Ballad of Floyd Collins" is more than just the plaintive opening number. It could be the tale of the show's evolution. Commissioned in 1994 by the American Music Theatre Festival of Philadelphia, "Floyd Collins" opened at Playwrights Horizons in the busy 1996 season, up against "Rent" and "Noise/Funk." It got lost in the shuffle; though it Read More →
AUGUST 1998 Published in In Theater Joe Masteroff has never been one to follow tradition -- or rest on his laurels. In 1963, he wrote the book to a tiny little, small-cast, lush, no-chorus operetta (“She Loves Me”) and in 1966, the book to a dark, decadent musical about Nazis, bisexuals and abortion (“Cabaret”). And now, he’s writing the book and lyrics for Read More →
MAY 1998 Published in In Theater It was kind of a custody battle. There were our celestial parents, and She lay down for a little nap, leaving the kids with their Father. Next thing She knew, it was 5000 years later, and everything was a mess. Now our Heavenly Mother is back to mop up. “I read that Read More →
APRIL 1998 Published in In Theater Southern California has long been known as a hotbed of alternative lifestyles. So why not alternative theater? Okay, San Diego has a reputation (not always undeserved) as a lovely, sleepy, conservative Navy town. But last year, there was higher attendance at arts and cultural activities than at the world-famous Zoo, Sea World and all Read More →