| ION THEATRE will produce Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue (An American Duet, Part 1) from Feb 25 thru April 4 at NTC/Liberty Station. The author was nominated for the Pulitzer in 2007 for Elliot and in 2009 for her book of the Broadway musical, In the Heights. This piece models itself on a musical fugue with different voices weaving and expanding on similar themes. These deeply poetic, touching, and even humorous stories unravel from Elliot, a 19-year old marine just back from Iraq, his father (Vietnam) and his grandfather (Korean War). Part 2 will include Yussef El Guindi’s Back of the Throat. It’s a tale of a Muslim-American man receiving a seemingly friendly visit by two government officials, that soon devolves into a full-blown, no-holds-barred interrogation. Call for tickets at 619-600-5020 or visit iontheatre.com. MOXIE THEATRE (Rolando Theatre site) will stage readings of new plays from March 19-28. Several California playwright’s will offer up rich language, huge imaginations, bold personalities and central female characters who expand the idea of what is feminine. Order your tickets by calling 858.598.7620 or by visiting them at moxietheatre.com. NEW VILLAGE ARTS will offer a regional premiere of Peter Brook and Marie-Helene Estienne’s The Man Who from Feb 4-28. It was inspired by Oliver Stack’s best-selling collection of case histories about the neurologically impaired. This series of fables is an adventurous journey through the mind and accomplished with four actors and one musician. For ticket info contact them at 760.433.3245 or visit newvillagearts. org. |
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| CYGNET THEATRE will entertain local audiences with August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson from Jan 21 thru Feb 28. It’s a story of a brother and sister in a war over the fate of a family heirloom, a unique one of a kind piano carved with images of the family. It’s a spiritual, funny, moving drama about family. Order your tickets by ringing the box office up at 619-337-1525 or cygnettheatre.com. LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE will offer up Aurélia’s Oratorio from Feb 3-28 at the Mandell Weiss Theatre. It stars Aurélia Thierrée, who was first seen on stage as a young girl, performing with her parents Jean-Baptiste Thierrée and Victoria Thierrée Chaplin, creators of the famous Cirque Imaginaire and Cirque Invisible. She will no doubt charm us with her dazzling display of stage illusion, inspired by the magic of music hall and circus. Call for tickets at www.lajollaplayhouse.org or by calling 858.550.1010. LAMB’S PLAYERS THEATRE plans to delight audiences with J. B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, running from February 5 thru March 21. This play is a classic and tells the tale of human connection and moral responsibility. The story starts out with a family’s quiet engagement celebration and turns intriguing when a Police Inspector questions them about the death of a young woman. Call for tickets at 619.437.0600 or visit lambsplayers.org for more information. SAN DIEGO REP (at the Lyceum) will present Culture Clash in America from Feb 18 thru March 7. Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas and Herbert Siguenza have written and star in this vehicle. Culture clashes trio will talk about change in America in their latest out-of-the- box comedy/drama. They have been at this theatrical-social anthropology gig for over two decades and know what to do. These sketches have been adapted from real interviews with people from across the country. Look for satire, vaudeville, mine and the spoken word to tell their stories of radically diverse lives (Cuban exiles, Haitian immigrants, Puerto Rican political activists, et al). Ring them up for tickets at 619.544.1000 or visit sdrep.org. THE OLD GLOBE will offer Street Lights, a World Premiere, from Feb 20-28. Whisper House (Music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik/Book and lyrics by Kyle Jarrow) will play through Feb 21. This new musical follows Sheik’s Spring Awakening success on Broadway. It will take you back to 1942--at the height of World War II--when Christopher, an imaginative young boy, is sent to live with an aunt he’s never met: Lilly, a reclusive woman who serves as the keeper of a remote lighthouse. It’s a touching story about how we should embrace, rather than fear, the unknown. And at the Sheryl & Harvey White Theatre, Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers will be produced thru Feb 28. It won both the Pulitzer as well as a Tony award for the playwright. It’s all about finding one’s way through the tangled web of family relationships without losing the sense of self or sense of humor. Order your tickets at 619.23.GLOBE or visit them at theoldglobe.org. |
