Theater
NVA returns to Shakespeare in the Park with Moonlight Cultural Foundation and “As You Like It”
Photo by Daren Scott VISTA, CA. August 24, 2010. New Village Arts Theatre and Moonlight Cultural Foundation are teaming up to bring Shakespeare in the Park back to North County San Diego. Shakespeare’s romantic comedy AS YOU LIKE IT will be set in 1969 New Orleans, with the Forest of Arden located in... »
Controversial Smash-Hit Play “Confessions of a Mormon Boy” Premieres in Orange County at Church of the Foothills
Santa Ana, California (August 30, 2010) – Church of the Foothills is proud to present the Orange County premiere of the controversial smash-hit CONFESSIONS OF A MORMON BOY. With performances on Friday October 1st and Saturday October 2nd at 8PM, MORMON BOY tells the inspiring true story of playwright and star Steve... »
“Three Songs from the Heart”
“Three: Songs from the Heart,” a world premiere musical with Book, Music and Lyrics by Frederick Keeve (writer/director/producer “From Russia to Hollywood,” starring Gregory Peck; the upcoming feature “Letters from Heaven”), will debut as part of the Festival of New America Musicals 2010 on Friday, July 16, 8:00 PM and run through Sunday, July... »
‘Hot l Baltimore’
The once-elegant Hotel Baltimore has long since lost its class, along with the “E” in its sign. The hotel is now a flophouse where the water supply is often in question, hookers turn tricks and the socially discarded live out their days. But next month they’ll have to go elsewhere: the hotel is slated... »
‘The Habit of Art’
Playwright Alan Bennett follows his 2004 smash hit The History Boys with The Habit of Art, structurally a more complex piece using the play-within-a-play gambit to tell the story of a fictional meeting between two 20th century creative giants – poet W. H. Auden and composer Benjamin Britten. But the real subject of the... »
‘Seven Against Thebes’
Those rulers of Thebes were a piece of work. Not above rape, murder or incest, they incurred the wrath of gods and mortals alike. You remember them. Oedipus committed the unpardonable sins of killing his father and marrying his mother (albeit unknowingly), continuing the family curse brought down by his grandfather Laius, who had raped... »
‘GAM3RS’
Listen up, geeks and gamers: there’s a late-night show at ion theatre just for you. Yes, you’ll have to turn off the electronics for an hour or so, but dude, take my word for it, it’s worth it. Brian Bielawski, avid gamer since the tender age of 7, managed to tear himself away long enough... »
‘Miss Julie’
Miss Julie’s psyche is disintegrating along with 19th century Swedish aristocracy in August Strindberg’s classic Miss Julie, a Stone Soup Theatre production playing only three more performances next week at North Coast Repertory Theatre. Directed by Lisa Berger, Miss Julie makes an interesting companion piece to NCRT’s current production of Ibsen’s Ghosts. Hamlet railed about... »
‘Baldwin New Play Festival’
There’s a lot of haunting going on in most of the student plays selected for the 2010 Baldwin New Play Festival at UCSD. Ghosts of racism and a runaway father haunt a black teen as he transitions into adulthood. A mother struggles to come to terms with her child’s disappearance. Five high school misfits... »
‘Into the Woods’
Those wild and crazy characters the Witch, the Baker, Little Red Ridinghood and Rapunzel (among others) are going back Into the Woods. This time the thicket is at OnStage Playhouse in Chula Vista, where Stephen Sondheim’s twisted sendup of fairy tales plays through May 1, directed by James M. McCullock. This multiple Tony- and Pulitzer... »
