Theatre, Film & Broadcast

  By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Family and ethnically themed comedies are not new to most audiences. (There’s always Neil Simon) What might be new, however, is that Indian ethnicity isn’t your usual fare of what’s seen on local stages these days unless you see Rafta, Rafta”, Ayub Kahn-Din’s Oliver Award winning comedy now playing at […]

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—I love the John Kander/Fred Ebb musical “Cabaret”. I shudder at the John Kander/Fred Ebb musical “Cabaret”. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I have seen this show. In fact, many moons ago, I saw Joel Grey the (often called) quintessential Emcee perform it live in yet another

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–When Moxie Theatre and playwright Liz Duffy Adams team up together prepare yourselves for a wonderful and fun filled romp. Remember her Dog Act, Wet  and The Listener? Their latest Duffy project Or now making its San Diego premiere is a delicious peek into the world (both real and conceived) of

By Carol Davis VISTA, California.– It isn’t often my memory takes me back to 1959 when my late husband, Gerry, and I motored across the country from Massachusetts to California in our then Valiant. We had our TripTik from the Automobile Club routed so we could see some of the southern most country on the

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–If the snuggly laced corsets, tightly wound up sexual repressions, and freely bouncing bustles tied on to the rear ends of our nineteenth century Victorian sisters conjure up a contradiction in your mind’s eye, so then the apparatus in the good doctor’s home will do the same. It looks like a

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–Several months ago I wrote about a documentary that was being shown as part of the Jewish Film Festival called The Wrong Side of the Bus. It was about a noted professor of psychiatry who was born, grew up and went to school in South Africa during the days of Apartheid.

By Carol Davis CARLSBAD, California— New Village Arts Theatre in Carlsbad has, over the years, mounted four of Sam Shepard’s plays: A Lie Of The Mind, Curse Of The Starving Class, True West  and Fool For Love.  Simpatico marks the fifth. For San Diego audiences, these are good choices for this company since they do

 By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — ion theatre company, now in it’s fifth season, has established itself as pretty avant-garde. So it’s no surprise that Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant Of Inishmore would be on their wish list of plays to produce. He’s also the playwright who wrote The Beauty Queen Of Leenae (it was a

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Opening night at the 10th Avenue Theatre in downtown San Diego where Mo’Olelo Performing Arts Company is mounting Lydia R. Diamond’s Stick Fly was packed to capacity. Everyone was anxious to hear about the rich LeVay’s of Martha’s Vineyard. Diamond’s LeVay family drama is quite intriguing and thought provoking

By Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California —A bona fide world premiere of the William Finn/ James Lapine musical Little Miss Sunshine is now being staged at the La Jolla Playhouse on the Mandell Weiss Stage. That’s of course if you don’t count the movie (Michael Arndt) of the same name, which this particular musical follows

ESCONDIDO, California —The musical The Fantasticks with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones was originally an off-Broadway production that ran a total of 42 years and 17,162 performances making it the world’s longest running musical. It’s characters are Matt (a Boy), Louisa (a Girl), Huckaby (the Boy’s father), Bellomy (the Girl’s father), Henry,

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO– During the intermission of the latest incarnation of the L. Frank Baum’ book,  the  John Kane adaptation of “Wizard of Oz” I chatted with a tyke munching on a cookie. “How do you like the show so far?” I asked? Being non-committal in front of a stranger, her Mom piped up