Carol Davis is a well-known reviewer and theater critic based in San Diego.
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO –Okay, so I am a bit out of touch with cult movies, shock value and the like, but give me a break, I’m not that out of touch that cross dressing and men wearing fish net stockings, high heels, bustiers and corsets send me into a tailspin ; been there […]
‘Rocky Horror Show’ –is that an actor sitting next to you? Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–Jerry Herman’s Mame is one of those oldies but goodies that hasn’t been around the San Diego musical theatre scene for over thirty years. With book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, and based on the novel by Patrick Dennis and the play Auntie Mame Herman’s familiar music (Hello Dolly
Mame thrives at the North Park Birch Theatre Read More »
Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis ESCONDIDO, California — It mattered not that the actors in the Dale Wasserman (Book), Mitch Leigh (Music) and Joe Darion (Music) mega musical hit of the 1965 Broadway Production, Man Of La Mancha, based on the 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, by Wasserman were also the musicians in this current offering of
Welk’s ‘La Mancha’ still pleases after decades Read More »
Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Diversionary Theatre in the Hillcrest neighborhood is presenting Christopher Marlow’s epic work Edward II, with Richard Baird directing. Somehow epic and Baird go together naturally. Baird founded Poor Players whose mission it was to produce the works of Shakespeare. In fact between his directing and acting some 20 or more
Edward II couldn’t be diverted from his gay lover Read More »
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By Carol Davis ENCINITAS, California.— Here’s a twofer for you: a trip and tour of San Diego Botanical Gardens and a chance to listen to a new audio play at the same time. The La Jolla Playhouse’s WoW Project, (With out Walls) is presenting a new theatre experience, (It is the first of a four
L.J. Playhouse produces ‘audio play’ at S.D. Botanical Gardens Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California—I can’t remember when the last time was that I had such fun in the theatre as I did the night I attended the North Coast Repertory Theatre’s production of Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Tenor. I know, it’s supposed to be funny. It is after all a farce. But
‘Lend Me a Tenor’ well worth up to five tenners Read More »
Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis CARLSBAD, California — When I was in college my friends and I used to enjoy philosophical riddles. One in particular (I know you heard these riddles as well) that I remember was “if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it does it still make a sound?” Based on
This ‘Thom Pain’ lacks common sense Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis LA JOLLA –There’s something inherently wrong about watching three naïve sixteen year old African American high school girls, or any other children for that matter, chatter and plan about the parties and gifts they would get if they all decided to have babies at the same time. As the mother of three
‘Milk Like Sugar’ premieres at Playhouse Read More »
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By Carol Davis GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Arizona–For decades I have wanted to visit the Grand Canyon. Finally, on my 74th birthday in May, my friend Debbie and I set out (from her Las Vegas home) to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon for a three-day excursion. Never in my imagination had I pictured
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Local premieres are great motivators for audiences interested in seeing productions not mounted in our fair city before. Unless you do a lot of theatre travel to catch world premieres the next best things are local premieres. Ion Theatre Company, always in the front lines of risk taking and in its
‘Grace’ a mixed blessing for the religious Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis CORONADO, California–When Joanna McClelland Glass first met Judge Francis Biddle in 1967 she was in her early twenties and he was 81. She was on the morning side of her life and career he was at twilight of his. He had pretty much ‘done it all.’ She was from the Canadian
Plusses for ‘Trying’ at Lamb’s Players Theatre Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis VISTA, California—It matters not that just last year, The San Diego Repertory Theatre in conjunction with San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts mounted an excellent and lively rendition of the Mark O’Donnell, Thomas Meehan (book), Mark Shaiman (music) and Scott Wittman/Mark Shaiman (lyrics) 2003 Tony Award winning Broadway hit (directed
Hairspray at Moonlight is hair-raising fun Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — There’s something intriguing about watching two intelligent adults spar over their intended romance leading up to their ultimate marriage…or not. In playwright John Morogiello’s witty and appealing Engaging Shaw now on the Sheryl and Harvey White Stage at the Old Globe Theatre, Rod Brogan (Shaw), Angela Pierce (Charlotte Payne-Townshend),
Engaging Shaw at the Old Globe is just plain good theatre Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis CARLSBAD, California —It’s hard to believe that the very same playwright, Eugene O’Neill, who penned Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Iceman Cometh, Morning Becomes Electra and Desire Under the Elms also is responsible for his one and only lighthearted comedy Ah, Wilderness. But then again, he was much younger and his
NVA Launches Ensemble Project, ‘Ah Wilderness’ Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast