Of Mice and Men at New Village Arts
"I've never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy," the Boss tells George Milton. "What's your percentage?" George doesn't answer. He could have said "I am my brother's keeper," since the itinerant bindlestiff has an unconditional loyalty …
Cyclocross Comes to San Diego County
Cyclists across San Diego County, at least the more extreme ones, are gearing up for two Cyclocross events in San Diego this weekend, both part of the Southern California Cyclocross Prestige Racing Series. Cyclocross can be described as the strongman …
Cathedral X Lauches Kickstarter Campaign, Chairs Missing Releases 7-inch Vinyl
Cathedral X, a small self-run collaborative studio of sound and performance projects by sound artist and designer Amanda Schoepflin, visual performance artist Jessica Jeffery, and sound artist Paul Remund (Chairs Missing, Tape Deck Mountain) in downtown’s Art & Design District …
Gozzi versus Goldoni
Lamb's Players is staging a wild, musical version of Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters. The play is, and is not, a sample of the traditional commedia dell'arte. And the differences eventually forced Goldoni to leave Italy, in 1761, …
The Odd Couple at Sullivan Players
Oscar Madison, slob, eats "cold cuts for breakfast." Felix Ungar, control freak, "wears a seatbelt at the drive-in movie." Neil Simon's contrary duo has become part of our national lore. And the 1965 comedy's still bangs out the one-liners — …
Drama: An Actor's Education, by John Lithgow
When he appeared in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at the Old Globe a few years back, John Lithgow received a heartfelt ovation - and some shouts of welcome - at his first entrance. The performance, as expected, was elastic, graceful, and …
Orchestra Nova Classics Season Debuts 10/22 & 10/24
Hoping to jumpstart a new paradigm for presenting classical music, Orchestra Nova San Diego will debut its new Nova Classics season (Nova 2.0) with Mozart Loves Prague, happening Saturday, October 22 at Irwin M. Jacobs Qualcomm Hall in Sorrento Valley, …
Tonight: Free Soundcheck Series Debuts w/Yacht @ Hard Rock Hotel
In 1973, Paul McCartney performed an impromptu concert at the first Hard Rock Café in London, England, establishing the brand’s roots in rock n’ roll and live music. Continuing that nearly 40-year Hard Rock tradition of showcasing music’s future legends …
Louis Spisto to Leave Old Globe
The Old Globe Theatre just announced that its CEO/Executive producer, Louis Spisto, will step down at the end of this year. He has been with the company since 2002 and plans to work on independent projects. Michael G. Murphy, Old …
Dead Man's Cell Phone at Moxie
Jean never had a cell phone. You have to "be there," she says, constantly on call. She'd rather "disappear," where no one can reach her. She's not used to ringing in her pocket. Maybe that's why she answers a call …
Closing a Hit Show
Some productions can't end soon enough. Chemistry fizzled, audiences steered clear. When the final curtain comes down, the run doesn't end; it's put out of its misery. But what if a show hit the heights? Rave reviews, standing ovations and …
St. Cecilia's Restaurant?
From 1977 to 2005, the Sixth Avenue Playhouse/St. Cecilia's offered some of the most adventuresome, commercially successful theater in San Diego. The former funeral chapel was the original home of the San Diego Rep. And when the Rep moved to …
Glynn Bedington: Celebration of a Life
On a Saturday in September, 1984, Paul Bedington went to a series of lectures on the arts. A friend was giving one of the talks, and Paul had nothing else doing that day. Another of the speakers, a woman, got …
Occupy San Diego
On Friday, October 7, protestors met at the Park near the Children’s Museum on Island Avenue. There were people everywhere, and I got there an hour before the march. I had a feeling the protest was going to be big …
How the Other Half Loves at Scripps Ranch
Though often compared, Neil Simon and Alan Ayckbourn have little in common. Simon's zinging one-liners urge his audiences to embrace the status quo: that everything outside the box is either farce or infested with reptilian meanies. While Ayckbourn, with geometric …
26 Miles at Mo'olelo Performing Arts
For the last eight years, Olivia's Cuban mother, Beatriz, has been denied visitation rights. Olivia has lived with her father, a Jewish ex-Hippie who met Beatriz at Woodstock (the play begins in 1986). Programmed to deny her mother's ethnicity, Olivia …
What in the World Is Occupy San Diego and Why Does it Matter?
The following events took place on Monday, October 3, 2011 Night has just fallen over downtown San Diego’s Children’s Park and maybe 150 people sit in a circle amid the trees and electric gaslamps, flashing cryptic hand signals and talking …
Why Occupy San Diego?
I asked a few people at tonight's Occupy San Diego meeting at Children's Park why they plan to occupy. Here's what they said. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9-Okj4y0v4 Others, who preferred to speak anonymously and under pseudonyms, said the following: Marie, 57. Author. “When …
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at San Diego Musical Theatre
The title tips the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical's hand. Combine the biblical tale of Joseph and his brothers with modern anachronisms: parodies of musical styles, from country and western to disco; many-colored costumes from ancient Egypt to today, and characters …
Emi Meyer @ Balboa Theatre: Japanese Friendship Garden Benefit Oct. 15
San Diego's Japanese Friendship Garden Society celebrates their annual Aki no Matsuri Festival with an October 15 concert featuring singer/songwriter/pianist Emi Meyer at the Balboa Theatre.. Meyer was born in Kyoto Japan and raised in Seattle. Her bicultural heritage has …