Theatre, Film & Broadcast

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—When the opening of the new musical, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder  warns you that the show you are about to see is a tale of revenge and retribution and that blood may spill and spines may chill, you may think this is an updated version of “Sweeney Todd”,

By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California—I am in constant awe of war correspondent Richard Engle. It seems that wherever there is a skirmish (and I use the word cautiously) anywhere around the world his is the face I see reporting on it. He is the chief foreign correspondent for NBC News and just as recently

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—The San Diego Opera Company has brought back (by popular demand) Camille Saint-Saëns’ beautiful Samson et Dalila. The last time we were treated to this 19-century French opera was in 2007. No question this tale is of biblical proportions. The sets, rented from the San Francisco Opera, (Douglas Schmidt) are ‘gargantuan’

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — The Clybourne Park neighborhood in playwright Bruce Norris’s biting comedy is the very same neighborhood that the Younger Family of the late 1950’s, in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, was about ready to move into, in that groundbreaking drama so many moons ago. The Youngers are an

By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California—-Some might deem Willy Russell’s 1980’s comedy Educating Rita dated and irrelevant. It is, however, very current and well, quite relevant given the current state of our much maligned public educational system. Russell’s play takes us to a University in the North of England at a time when some major

By Carol Davis   ESCONDIDO, California—If you’ve not seen Randall Dodge in The Pirates of Penzance, The Fantastics,  Annie Get Your Gun, The Sound of Music and a host of other musicals in and around San Diego, I suggest you high tail it up to the Welk Resort Village Theatre in Escondido to see and hear this

  By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—It’s hard to believe that the San Diego Opera will be beginning its 48th International season in January the 26th to be exact. As a long time opera aficionado, I couldn’t be happier and for several reasons not the least being the choices Artistic Director Ian Campbell has made for