Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Play probes war correspondents’ ethics and adrenalin rushes

By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California—I am in constant awe of war correspondent Richard Engle. It seems that wherever there is a skirmish (and I use the word cautiously) anywhere around the world his is the face I see reporting on it. He is the chief foreign correspondent for NBC News and just as recently […]

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Voices powerful in lagging ‘Samson and Delilah’ production

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—The San Diego Opera Company has brought back (by popular demand) Camille Saint-Saëns’ beautiful Samson et Dalila. The last time we were treated to this 19-century French opera was in 2007. No question this tale is of biblical proportions. The sets, rented from the San Francisco Opera, (Douglas Schmidt) are ‘gargantuan’

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Clybourne Park’ studies psychology of housing discrimination

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — The Clybourne Park neighborhood in playwright Bruce Norris’s biting comedy is the very same neighborhood that the Younger Family of the late 1950’s, in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, was about ready to move into, in that groundbreaking drama so many moons ago. The Youngers are an

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Educating Rita’ in some ways better than ‘Pygmalion’

By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California—-Some might deem Willy Russell’s 1980’s comedy Educating Rita dated and irrelevant. It is, however, very current and well, quite relevant given the current state of our much maligned public educational system. Russell’s play takes us to a University in the North of England at a time when some major

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Notes from the Woodcutter: ‘Billy Wilder’

By Loren Kantor STUDIO CITY, California –Billy Wilder is one of Hollywood’s all-time great filmmakers. His movies ranged from film noir to screwball comedy and they were known for tight plots and memorable dialogue. Wilder despised sentiment and he sought to tell stories as simply and elegantly as possible. To Wilder, “the best director is

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Hickorydickory’ is a dark, timely comedy

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Like it or not, we all have a mortal time clock ticking somewhere in our bodies. For most it’s located in or around the heart.  In playwright Marisa Wegrzny thought provoking but off the wall dark comedy “Hickorydickory”, the Wicker Family of  ‘Wicker’s Watch & Clock Repair shop in

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ in world premiere

  By Carol Davis  LA JOLLA, California—When the La Jolla Playhouse promises a fourteen-foot tall robot, you better believe it delivers. And when they promise the sounds of the band Flaming Lips  they deliver on that one too. And when they combine the two, hold on to your hats because former Playhouse Artistic Director Des

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

“Around The World in 80 Days” “Oh! The places you will go!”

By Carol Davis CORONADO, California — Hang on to your hats, join in on the fun and get ready for an 80 day around-the-world adventure that will only take a little over two hours of your time, but it will be time well spent. Forget about the balloon and put on your imagination caps for

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

The witch in them thar’ swamp

By Carol Davis CHULA VISTA, California–If you’re in the mood for a Gothic thriller, lots of blood, the supernatural, bewitching witches, flying cats (check it out) supernatural curses, and family loyalty (and that’s just the beginning) The Sugar Witch by Nathan Sanders might be your choice of thrills for a Halloween Delight. On Stage Playhouse

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

With Kentucky cousins on a Spanish immersion quest

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Our Kentucky cousin, Harry Jacobson-Beyer, whom I like to call the “Ishmaelite” for reasons to be explained, is determined to learn Spanish, notwithstanding his Kentucky accent, which is something between a twang and a drawl.  To that end, with his wife, Sherry, he has traveled  to various locations in Spain,

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Carol Davis, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast