Eva Trieger

Benjamin Franklin is supposed to have said, ”Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.” Well, The Man Who Came To Dinner at PowPac Theatre bears this out! In Moss Hart’s and George Kaufman’s play, this adage comes to life. Directed by Rhiannon McAfee, the marvelous cast of the Julia Smith production delivers the tale of a self-important, “bombastic” man who manipulates his minions for his own design. [Eva Trieger]

The Dickensian setting, in impoverished London, serves as the backdrop for Todd’s quest to locate his daughter and dispatch Judge Turpin and Beadle Bamford (Hunter Brown) who have destroyed him and robbed him of his life, family and liberty. [Eva Trieger]

Though the Bard is regaled and celebrated as a most prolific playwright and sonnet producer, not everybody is a fan!  I Hate Hamlet, Lamplighters Community Theatre’s delightful comedy, exposes why not everyone adores his 38 scripts. This comedy will reach every funny bone with its clever dialogue, quirky humor and time travel. [Eva Trieger]

Now some folks feel that politics is no laughing matter. Our leaders must be smart, charismatic, trustworthy and cool under pressure. There is little room for levity or indecisiveness. Luckily for San Diego audiences, PowPac Theatre believes the polar opposite. Directed by Melissa Malloy, The Outsider provides a delicious comic relief to the tug-of-war we’ve been watching in this election year. [Eva Trieger]

Older readers may recall Sybil, a 1973 book about the life of a woman with multiple personalities.  Suffice it to say that the subject of that book has nothing on Dennis Peters, the one-man phenom who portrays Sam and the other 30 characters in Scripps Ranch Theatre’s “Fully Committed. ” [Eva Trieger]

With radical groups rounding up the citizenry and imprisoning, executing and persecuting at will, entropy was the order of the day. [Eva Trieger]

Nan, bolstered by best friend Simon (Isai Luna) and her new pal, Sweetheart/Peaches (Ruth Russell), has had all she can take. Her plan to leave Kyle involves duct taping him to a chair in a cabin to which she plans to lure the local bears. [Eva Trieger]

This show creates a new understanding of musical theatre, by intentionally exploring composition and dynamics.  Some of the images are abstract, others are extreme close ups of a face or a person. Each composition captures a moment in time and enables the actor and the viewer to decipher a story. [Eva Trieger]

Is it over the top? Yes. Is it raucous? Yes. Are the physical comedy and innuendos suggestive and bordering on lewd? Yes, a thousand times, yes. Will it take your mind off your troubles? A resounding Yes!  [Eva Trieger]