Eva Trieger

I guess I’m a sucker for storytelling based on real life events. Comedian/Actor/Writer and banjo player Steve Martin teamed up with American singer/songwriter (and Paul Simon’s wife!) Edie Brickell to write the music, book and story of Bright Star. [Eva Trieger]

-Everybody’s got a story to tell, yet not everyone has the opportunity or chutzpah to share it. Trinity Theatre Company is providing this opportunity with its Third Annual New Works Festival. [Eva Trieger]

The short play runs only about 90 minutes, but is so filled with dialogue, movement and history that the viewer is completely absorbed into this re-enactment of young love prior to and during World War I. [Eva Trieger]

Veteran detective, Mark McPherson (Kevin O’Connor, Jr) is quite taken with the stunning and mysterious socialite who has been murdered in her New York City apartment. Ogling her portrait and perusing her record collection he has fallen in love with the victim. But he’s not alone in his affections. [Eva Trieger]

Lamplighters Community Theatre in La Mesa is currently staging a heart-rending provocative show that challenges our beliefs and makes us examine the ways in which we guard our hearts from giving and receiving love. [Eva Trieger]

As this San Diego premiere of White opens at the Scripps Ranch Theatre, we hear popular buzzwords about diversity and inclusion being derided by Jane (Noelle Caliguri), curator of a trending gallery and Gus (Joey Landwehr) a friend and prolific artist. [Eva Trieger]

Susan Hendrix (Shealyn Sailors) was recently blinded in an accident. During her recovery she met her husband, Sam (Jim Miller). The two live in a basement apartment in Greenwich Village, New York City. With Sam’s constant independence coaching and some help from Gloria (Ashlyn Graves) a little girl who lives upstairs, Suzy successfully navigates her apartment and has memorized important phone numbers and routines. [Eva Trieger]

PowPAC’s production brilliantly captures the perplexing and frustrating disconnect between father and son. Gene (Steve Murdock), a young widower, attempts to carve a new path in his life, but heeds the tug of caring for his aging parents. He is quite close to his loving mother, Margaret (Linda Englund), and is attentive and patient with his cantankerous, self-centered father, Tom (Jim Clevenger). [Eva Trieger]

Benjamin Franklin is supposed to have said, ”Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.” Well, The Man Who Came To Dinner at PowPac Theatre bears this out! In Moss Hart’s and George Kaufman’s play, this adage comes to life. Directed by Rhiannon McAfee, the marvelous cast of the Julia Smith production delivers the tale of a self-important, “bombastic” man who manipulates his minions for his own design. [Eva Trieger]