The Arts

Fine cast energizes ‘Prairie’ at North Coast Rep.

  By Carol Davis   SOLANA BEACH, California—It’s funny how some things in life come full circle. In 1988 two budding young actors, Lynne Griffin and Sean Sullivan appeared together in the Old Globe’s Cassius Carter Theatre  production of John Olive’s The Voice Of The Prairie. From that theatrical tale, another and much larger production […]

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Carol Davis, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

‘Summer and Smoke’ sizzles at New Village Arts

  By Carol Davis   CARLSBAD, California — There’s a glowing ember just beneath the surface in Tennessee Williams characters, Alma Winemiller and John Buchanan in his Summer And Smoke that sizzles, but never ignites. It’s frustrating as well as intriguing watching the two volley back and forth teasing and retreating, coming close to intimacy, but Williams

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Carol Davis, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Welk’s ‘Footloose’ is high energy entertainment

By Carol Davis ESCONDIDO, California–One might wonder if  Footloose-The Musical would go over big at The Welk Resorts Theatre in Escondido. If you were sitting where I was on a matinee performance a short time ago, you would say, “Bring it on!” Heads were bobbing, swaying and sometimes shoulders lifting to the beats of the

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Old Globe’s ‘The Whipping Man’ grips and troubles

  By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–That May is Jewish Heritage Month is evidenced by the two plays, both bearing Jewish content, now running in repertory at the Old Globe Theatre in Balboa Park: William Gibson’s Golda’s Balcony is on the main stage and Matthew Lopez’s Whipping Man is in the theatre in the round or

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Carol Davis, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Eva Schloss, stepsister of Anne Frank, writes intriguing memoir

Eva’s Story by Eva Schloss (with Evelyn Julia Kent), William B. Eerdman Publishing Co, 2010, 226 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—This is an updated version of the memoirs of Eva Schloss, who was the posthumous stepsister of the immortal Anne Frank.  Originally published in 1988, the current edition brings readers up to date

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History

Tovah Feldshuh, a must see in ‘Golda’s Balcony’

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—There is something magical about seeing Tovah Feldshuh playing Golda Meir in her one-woman show, Golda’s Balcony by William Gibson now playing at the Old Globe Theatre in Balboa Park through May 30th. From the moment she walks on to the stage, to the time she takes her last of many

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Carol Davis, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Ibsen’s ‘Ghost House’ a perfect fit for North Coast Rep

  By Carol Davis   SOLANA BEACH, California—When Henrik Ibsen wrote Ghosts in 1881 it was labeled sensational. Not in a positive way however, but shockingly and indecently sensational according to all reports! What’s so shocking to today’s audiences, I’ll venture to say, is the way women were thought of back then way before any

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Carol Davis, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘The Rivalry’ at Lamb’s provides a timely debate

CORONADO, California—-It’s hard to believe that in 2010 we are still fighting the Civil War. Yup. Both Virginia and Mississippi recently announced new proclamations by their Governors designating April as Confederate Heritage Month without so much as a mention of the cause of the Civil War, which by all accounts was the issue of slavery

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Carol Davis, Theatre, Film & Broadcast