The Arts

 By Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California—Lest anyone forget, there is the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice tried and true “Jesus Christ Superstar” of the seventies and then there is the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice/ Des McAnuff “Jesus Christ Superstar” of the 20’s: 2011/2012 that is. Of course the lyrics (Tim Rice) and the music (Andrew Lloyd […]

By Carol Davis   SAN DIEGO—Ion Theatre Company, under the leadership of Claudio Raygoza and Glen Paris (who were named Producers of the Year by the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle in 2011), has gone and done it again. First the little theatre that could mounted the memorable Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim musical Gypsy:

By Carol Davis OCEANSIDE, California—-You will recognize Tom Andrew. He has been George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life, the holiday radio play at the Cygnet Theatre, for the past five years. But Tom is a song and dance man of the highest quality and lucky for us, he gets to strut his stuff in

By Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California–UC San Diego’s School of Theatre and Dance is mounting a very aggressive rendering of S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk translated by Joachim Neugroschel with direction under the firm hand of Joshua Kahan Brody. One might ask why The Dybbuk? One might even question why a two and one half hour

By Carol Davis CHULA VISTA, California–“It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything that people are truly good at heart”. “It is utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering

By Carol Davis COSTA MESA, California — The trip from my house in San Diego County to The South Coast Repertory Theatre in Orange County to see Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful, took me about 90 minutes from door to door with medium traffic along the way. Carrie Watts’ (Lynn Milgrim) trip from Houston,

By Carol Davis CARLSBAD, California— New Village Arts Theatre has hit a homerun out of the park with its current production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. It deserves a standing ovation. Steinbeck’s play set in the drought and dreariness of Salinas Valley, 1937 isn’t exactly what one might call a fun play to

By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California — When you put Jonathan McMurtry, Ray Reinhardt and Ken Ruta in the same room you’ve got history knocking at your door. I’ll venture to say none will see 65 again and that’s being generous. But ‘Old Actors Never Die’ they continue to do what they do best. As

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—-Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie is a haunting play. It has been said that Williams was in the middle of many of his rewrites of the play during the time his sister Rose had undergone a prefrontal lobotomy and this was his way of coming to terms with his sister’s illness

By Carol Davis CORONADO, California — Lamb’s Players Theatre in Coronado is putting on one heck of a party for the next few weeks and it’s all ‘G’ rated (they told us so). A world premiere, The Servant of Two Masters, with book and lyrics by David McFadzean is based on the 18th century comedy