San Diego Weekend Guide: May 22-24 – Memorial Day Edition
The antsy in us is strong y’all. Really, if it’s Memorial Day weekend, we’re all…
The Challenges of Making Theater in San Diego When Zoom Is Center Stage
Adaptation. Accommodation. Improvisation. Flexibility is the catchword in these crazy coronavirus times. And theater makers…
San Diego Theaters Preparing for When Audiences Will Be Ready to Come Back
The Big Question on everybody’s mind these days is: When will life return to “normal?”…
San Diego Theaters Embrace Online Outreach to Shelter-in-Place Audiences
As a theater critic who typically sees 200 live theater performances in San Diego every…
Our Critic Ranks the Top 10 From a Year of Inspiring San Diego Theater
The politics of 2019 may never be forgotten. The year of divisiveness — and impeachment…
Talented Young Actors Honor Fathers in ‘The Burnt Part Boys’ Musical
Last year at this time, actor/singer/director Jordan Miller and his wife, actor/singer/musician Jessica Couto founded…
British Politics Endure a Royal Whacking in ‘Handbagged’ at Moxie Theatre
There are still many U.S. citizens who cannot conceive of a woman at the helm…
Filling a Performance Gap: A Married Couple’s New Theater for Young Professionals
There’s often a kind of no-man’s-land between youth performance companies and professional theater. After kids…
False Assumptions in Latinx America ‘Fade’ at Moxie Theatre
First impressions and false assumptions. Lucia (she insists it be pronounced lu-SEE-ya), a Mexican-born Chicago…
Greek Gods Meet Seething Suburbanites in ‘BLISS’ at Moxie Theatre
The world premiere at Moxie Theatre is the perfect play for this #MeToo moment. An…
A Powerful and Sadly Always Relevant ‘Anne Frank’ at Moxie Theatre
Sad to say, “The Diary of Anne Frank” never goes out of style. Though there…
Forceful Women Confront Terrifying Times in ‘Revolutionists’ at Moxie Theatre
There’s a lot going on in “The Revolutionists.” The French Revolution, for example. But feminist…
SDSU Stages All-Female ‘Julius Caesar’
Julius Caesar is Rome’s revered leader, but is his celebrity a threat to democracy? In…
Campy Musical ‘Ruthless’ Spoofs Theater and Critics—Including Our Own
Moxie Theatre is staging a campy musical about theater and movies with a cast that includes one…