The Arts

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— Diversionary Theatre announced that it has invited a rabbi, a pastor and a humanist to host a panel to discuss how family and faith ‘shape our lives and our relationships’. It’s all in conjunction with its current offering, Geoffrey Naufft’s Next Fall, a poignant, contemporary and funny play about being […]

  By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California—Mr. Green (Robert Grossman) is an 86-year-old widower who clings to his Jewish values and beliefs. He is angry, unpleasant, stubborn, worn out and alone. He and his wife Yetta were married 59 years. “We almost made it to sixty and never had and argument”. But she died a

By Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California– When my family was young and we used to pile into the car for any number of our family excursions, I never dreamed some of them would come back to haunt me. Recently, I attended Moving Arts The Car Plays: San Diego, a concept developed and conceived by Paul Stein. 

By Carol Davis VISTA, California–When Kathy Brombacher retires this year she will have been at the helm of Moonlight Stage Productions for seventeen years having produced over 200 shows. In other words, she has been there from the beginning. She has been a pioneer for the arts in the North County. It was she who

By Carol Davis        SAN DIEGO—Lisa Kron is a political animal. I can identify with that. When her leading character, Ellen, smartly played by Aubrey Saverino, is glued to CNN and/or MSNBC to catch all the political talking heads speaking her language, I get it. And it becomes abundantly clear, as the projections of the still

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— The West Coast Premiere of Jake Heggie’s long waited Moby-Dick finally anchored at The Civic Center for at the opening night production on Feb. 18  and from my seat in row U it was a visually splendid sensation. From the time the theatre went dark and Donald Holder’s brilliant light

By Carol Davis CORONADO, California—If you ever wondered why Guys & Dolls is my all-time-favorite musical, take a trip to Coronado and catch Lamb’s Players Theatre production of it now. With the wonderful music of Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows based on a story of Damon Runyon characters, it has

By Carol Davis ENCINITAS, California–You don’t have to be politically astute to understand the goings on in An Enemy Of the People. You just have to open a newspaper today and read about this country being torn apart by the political schism that is being ramped up by a few loud, narrow minded and hypocritical

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—I have been on four roller coaster rides in my lifetime. Once as a teenager on the one at White City Park in my hometown of Worcester, Massachusetts, another on the Matterhorn at Disneyland when I didn’t know any better, another at Magic Mountain since my youngest was too short to

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—I’m old enough to remember segregation and racial prejudice before it was swept under the carpet only to rear its ugly head again in 2008. Then, there was no beating around the bushes when it came to who drank from what faucet or went to what part of the bus or

  By Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California—–The old proverb that states ‘laughter is the best medicine’ couldn’t be truer than in this, the latest incarnation of Culture Clash’s variation on the theme of immigration. The subject matter is both tragic and perverse. To get the conversation moving and out into the open and to showcase

By Carol Davis LA JOLLA,  California — The  San Diego Theatre Critics Circle threw a huge party Feb. 6 for the theatre community to celebrate and acknowledge the accomplishments of San Diego County’s  local theatre heroes. This is the tenth year we have been at it and every year it gets better and better. Named for his powerhouse