I would never have imagined starting my 2026 theatre year with an interaction with Monty Python, but here we are…
If you are familiar with Monty Python, this production feels like a joyful reunion. If you’re not (like me), it works surprisingly well as an introduction.
From Another Zero’s -Best of 2025- in San Diego Theatre
The 2025 San Diego theatre gave us unique experiences, world premieres, revivals, and crossed feelings. -I had a lot of feelings-. From touring productions to alternate spaces and a bunch of new musicals.
Yuri Viaja a Través de sus décadas de éxitos con la gira Icónica
Yuri se presentó el pasado mes de noviembre en el Civic Theatre de San Diego con un espectáculo de lujo que engalanó su gira titulada Icónica.
Backyard Renaissance’s Production of The Waverly Gallery
Kenneth Lonergan’s The Waverly Gallery is a quiet storm. The story of Gladys Greene (Deborah Gilmour Smyth), an elderly art gallery owner in Greenwich Village whose world begins to contract under the weight of dementia.
New Village Arts’ RENT
Jonathan Larson’s RENT—book, music, and lyrics have lived many lives since the 1990s. Watching it now, it hits differently. It’s one of those works that—even if it feels overproduced at times—still finds a way to offer something new
Diversionary Brings San Diego Premiere of “To My Girls” as Part of 40th Anniversary Season.
To My Girls might be a play about four gay friends who go to Palm Springs to spend a weekend. Then again, maturing out of friendships, setting healthy boundaries, and conquering your flaws is, like I said, universal, making this piece for everybody.
Onstage Playhouse Presents the World Premiere “Young Audiences”
The play is very “inside theatre”, and it does not hit the nail on the head; it pounds it. Spelling out the truth of stale vices in the American theatre, often involving boards, donors, and overproduced work with different skin tones and zip codes.
“There are no shortcuts in art, unlike life.”
Towards the end of 1971 and the first trimester of 1972, Callas taught a series of master classes at the Juilliard School in New York. These events served as the basis for American playwright Terrence McNally to write Master Class.
Después de 28 años de éxito con las funciones de “Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” The Old Globe presenta un concierto en atril con versión en español.
El formato será un concierto con los actores en atril y no se le resta mérito, ya que, echado a andar, lo de más es lo de menos.
Chalk Circle Collective Comes Back Reloaded with its Annual Production
The plot starts with eight actors coming to the stage and greeting the audience with a heads-up that the show will be a sort of remixed/reimagined Our Town by Thornton Wilder.
OnWord Theatre Closes Season with the One-Woman Play: “Beauty’s Daughter”
The new kid on the block, OnWord, is taking over Diversionary’s Black Box space with another West Coast premiere: Beauty’s Daughter by Obie award winner Dael Orlandersmith, directed by Danielle Bunch and starring Marti Gobel, who is also coming back to the role after almost a decade.
La Jolla Playhouse World-Premieres “Working Girl” with Music and Lyrics by Pop Icon Cyndi Lauper
Great choreography and amazing performances in an eighties flare. Wishing the songs sounded more authentic.
