Theatre, Film & Broadcast

By Carol Davis CHULA VISTA, California–“It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything that people are truly good at heart”. “It is utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering […]

By Carol Davis COSTA MESA, California — The trip from my house in San Diego County to The South Coast Repertory Theatre in Orange County to see Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful, took me about 90 minutes from door to door with medium traffic along the way. Carrie Watts’ (Lynn Milgrim) trip from Houston,

By Carol Davis CARLSBAD, California— New Village Arts Theatre has hit a homerun out of the park with its current production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. It deserves a standing ovation. Steinbeck’s play set in the drought and dreariness of Salinas Valley, 1937 isn’t exactly what one might call a fun play to

By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California — When you put Jonathan McMurtry, Ray Reinhardt and Ken Ruta in the same room you’ve got history knocking at your door. I’ll venture to say none will see 65 again and that’s being generous. But ‘Old Actors Never Die’ they continue to do what they do best. As

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—-Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie is a haunting play. It has been said that Williams was in the middle of many of his rewrites of the play during the time his sister Rose had undergone a prefrontal lobotomy and this was his way of coming to terms with his sister’s illness

By Carol Davis CORONADO, California — Lamb’s Players Theatre in Coronado is putting on one heck of a party for the next few weeks and it’s all ‘G’ rated (they told us so). A world premiere, The Servant of Two Masters, with book and lyrics by David McFadzean is based on the 18th century comedy

SAN DIEGO–This region, it appears, is more than ready for Sarah Ruhl’s quirkiness. It’s not that we have not yet been exposed to her plays. We have indeed. The San Diego Repertory Theatre downtown has produced two of her works, The Clean House and In The Room Next Door (or the vibrator play”) to critical

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — If anyone tells you that family matters don’t matter, they’re wrong, just wrong! Go back as far as the Ancient Greeks and as recently as Quiara Algeria Hudes’ 26 Miles and you will find all kinds of family matters and family dynamics that matter. For better or for worse

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–The trouble with airport waiting rooms and flight delays is that everyone at one point or another is sitting next to someone they don’t know, don’t want to know about and really don’t care about. For reasons beyond their control, they are all in the same boat and conversations have a

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