Theatre, Film & Broadcast

By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California —Thirty  years ago the late Tom Blakistone and his wife Olive founded the North Coast Repertory Theatre in the shopping center at Loma Santa Fe in Solana Beach.  The first incarnation of this theater was located in a tiny little corner right next to an ice cream store.  My

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO –Once a year the San Diego theatre critics get all dressed up and have a party honoring all those we write about throughout the year. This is the tenth year we will have been at this and we know this will be the best party yet! (We say that every

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO —Every year at this time, I feel that the opera season is ready to give me another early holiday gift. Before we know it, it will be January 28th and opening night of Richard Strauss’ fiery Salomé. In mid February the long awaited west coast premiere of Moby Dick by

By Carol Davis   SAN DIEGO — This is year number six for Cygnet Theatre and the radio version of the Frank Capra movie It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play adapted by Joe Landry and directed by Sean Murray with musical direction by Billy Thompson. Once again a trip down memory lane is

 By Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California—Lest anyone forget, there is the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice tried and true “Jesus Christ Superstar” of the seventies and then there is the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice/ Des McAnuff “Jesus Christ Superstar” of the 20’s: 2011/2012 that is. Of course the lyrics (Tim Rice) and the music (Andrew Lloyd

By Carol Davis   SAN DIEGO—Ion Theatre Company, under the leadership of Claudio Raygoza and Glen Paris (who were named Producers of the Year by the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle in 2011), has gone and done it again. First the little theatre that could mounted the memorable Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim musical Gypsy:

By Carol Davis OCEANSIDE, California—-You will recognize Tom Andrew. He has been George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life, the holiday radio play at the Cygnet Theatre, for the past five years. But Tom is a song and dance man of the highest quality and lucky for us, he gets to strut his stuff in

By Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California–UC San Diego’s School of Theatre and Dance is mounting a very aggressive rendering of S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk translated by Joachim Neugroschel with direction under the firm hand of Joshua Kahan Brody. One might ask why The Dybbuk? One might even question why a two and one half hour

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,