Theatre, Film & Broadcast

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Anna Deavere Smith’s latest commentary on the status of our health care system is one of the topics covered in her latest set of interviews, or as she calls them, “Assemblage of stories,” in Let Me Down Easy. It is now in a stellar showing at the San Diego Repertory […]

By Carol Davis     CARLSBAD, California—Toward the end of Scott Hudson’s new play, Sweet Storm now in a heartwarming production at New Village Arts Theatre, when Bo (Adam Brick) is holding Ruthie (Kelly Iversen) and they are swaying to the lulling sounds of “Sleep Walking”, your heart wants to beam and break at the same time.

By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California—-What a different a decade makes. In Tom Dudzick’s Over the Tavern that took place in 1959 the age of innocence was on the wane, drive in movies, Dairy Queen (we still have one in my neighborhood) and the Ed Sullivan Show were the ‘talk of the town.’ Martin and

By Carol Davis ESCONDIDO, California—Frank, Sammy, Dino, Joey; The Rat Pack! Those were the days, my friend; we thought they’d never end! Well, if you want another dose of ‘those days’, straight from the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, you can catch a glimpse of what used to be called the ‘Golden Days of entertainment’,

  By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Family and ethnically themed comedies are not new to most audiences. (There’s always Neil Simon) What might be new, however, is that Indian ethnicity isn’t your usual fare of what’s seen on local stages these days unless you see Rafta, Rafta”, Ayub Kahn-Din’s Oliver Award winning comedy now playing at

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—I love the John Kander/Fred Ebb musical “Cabaret”. I shudder at the John Kander/Fred Ebb musical “Cabaret”. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I have seen this show. In fact, many moons ago, I saw Joel Grey the (often called) quintessential Emcee perform it live in yet another

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–When Moxie Theatre and playwright Liz Duffy Adams team up together prepare yourselves for a wonderful and fun filled romp. Remember her Dog Act, Wet  and The Listener? Their latest Duffy project Or now making its San Diego premiere is a delicious peek into the world (both real and conceived) of

By Carol Davis VISTA, California.– It isn’t often my memory takes me back to 1959 when my late husband, Gerry, and I motored across the country from Massachusetts to California in our then Valiant. We had our TripTik from the Automobile Club routed so we could see some of the southern most country on the

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–If the snuggly laced corsets, tightly wound up sexual repressions, and freely bouncing bustles tied on to the rear ends of our nineteenth century Victorian sisters conjure up a contradiction in your mind’s eye, so then the apparatus in the good doctor’s home will do the same. It looks like a

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–Several months ago I wrote about a documentary that was being shown as part of the Jewish Film Festival called The Wrong Side of the Bus. It was about a noted professor of psychiatry who was born, grew up and went to school in South Africa during the days of Apartheid.

By Carol Davis CARLSBAD, California— New Village Arts Theatre in Carlsbad has, over the years, mounted four of Sam Shepard’s plays: A Lie Of The Mind, Curse Of The Starving Class, True West  and Fool For Love.  Simpatico marks the fifth. For San Diego audiences, these are good choices for this company since they do

 By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — ion theatre company, now in it’s fifth season, has established itself as pretty avant-garde. So it’s no surprise that Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant Of Inishmore would be on their wish list of plays to produce. He’s also the playwright who wrote The Beauty Queen Of Leenae (it was a