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THOM PAIN (based on nothing) at New Village Arts Theatre
All plays gear toward an audience's experience. But Will Eno's does much more than most. Just about every step is meant to disturb those sitting comfortably in the dark. The narrator's dressed in a charcoal-gray, unstylish suit. He begins by …
Orchestra Nova SD Season Debuts October, 75% Sold Out
It's a rarity in the world of arts these days, but Orchestra Nova San Diego ended its 2010-2011 season in the black and has pre-sold 75% of its capacity with subscriptions for their 2011-2012 Nova Classics series. They're hiring, not …
Overheard in Normal Heights
She1: "Don't do it. You're so skinny. You'll look funny." She2: "I don't care. If I'm going to pay $5,000, I'm f*cking getting C cups." He: "Damn, girl - you complain about having scoliosis now..."
An Alert for People in Theater
And maybe not just them. Several local theater people got an email this morning from Fred Moramarco, SDSU professor emeritus and artistic director of Laterthanever Productions: "Apologies for having to reach out to you like this. My wife and I …
Man of La Mancha at Welk Resort Theatre
The Spanish Inquisition stuck Miguel de Cervantes in a dungeon on a trumped up charge (he allegedly foreclosed on a monastery). When the other prisoners set up a mock trial, Cervantes defends himself with a play they'll all act out. …
R.I.P. Canyonfolk House Concerts El Cajon: 2003–2011
There are only two more Canyonfolk House Concerts scheduled for the El Cajon home of hosts Bill and Shirlee McAndrews, who are ending the series they began in 2003. If the name “house concert” doesn’t make it clear, they explain …
Ten-Year-Old Pianist Ethan Bortnick at Balboa Theater Benefit 9-25
Ethan Bortnick, a ten-year-old piano prodigy and national concert performer, will headline a Benefit Concert at downtown's Balboa Theater on September 25, with proceeds supporting Classics 4 Kids and their music education programs. Bortnick has performed on The Tonight Show …
Lend Me a Tenor at North Coast Rep
Marty Burnett's set for Ken Ludwig's farce ranks among his best in some time. It's an art deco hotel suite, circa 1934, white with black accessories, geometric shapes, and squared corners. Five of its six doors have mirrored trim. Everything's …
Hennessey’s PB Cancels Saturday Shows: No More Live Music?
“Just got some crazy news,” Lenny Morris posted online Saturday night, September 10. “The show for tonight at Hennessey's Pacific Beach is cancelled, including all future music at Hennesseys PB. Crazy…kind of spotty on the details, but I guess they …
San Diego's Quemaduras del Sol Effigy at Burning Man 2011
Last week, an estimated 2,000 San Diegan’s made the trek to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada for the Burning Man art, music, and everything festival. The week-long event sold out of tickets for the first time this year at …
Milk Like Sugar at La Jolla Playhouse
Snap decisions with lifelong consequences: a tattoo, saying something ridiculous on the Internet...a pregnancy pact? In Kirsten Greenidge's drama, Annie, Margie, and Talisha thrive on the social network. They are at once sprinting and standing still (like sitting behind a …
Black Dahlia Musical Opens at Bootleg Theater
The Chanteuse and the Devil’s Muse, a new play with live music written and directed by local celeb David J (Bauhaus, Love & Rockets), debuts this week at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles, running through October 1 before moving …
Sam Woodhouse's List, Part II
In this week's theater column, Sam Woodhouse looks back on the San Diego Rep's first 35 years. I asked him not for a Greatest Hits list, but to talk about shows where the Rep or he, personally, made a leap. …
The Tempest: A Re-view
A slow week let me do something I haven't done in years: see a show a second time, away from the pressures, the hoopla, and what Walter Kerr called the "catastrophic importance" of opening night. I went back to The …
The Rock Band Word Cloud at the Gaslamp's Hard Rock Hotel
As you make your way from the elevator to the roof-deck pool, you pass through a hallway whose wall is festooned with band names and insignias. Because, as you learn when you hear Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" while shopping at …
Audrey II: Fruitful and Multiplying
At the end of Little Shop of Horrors, Audrey II -- the carnivore plant that looks like a Great Green Shark -- vows to multiply, consume all humanity, and take over the world. Though its growth hasn't been colossal, Audrey …
2 Pianos 4 Hands at North Coast Rep.
Sociologist Malcolm Gladwell says to be a success at anything takes 10,000 hours of honing your skills (roughly a decade). "The classical musician who starts playing the violin at four," he writes in Outliers: The Story of Success, "is debuting …