Episodes
![Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes) (La Jolla Playhouse)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/13243409/and_ux7k5n_300x300.png)
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes) (La Jolla Playhouse)
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
August 30 – September 25, 2022 Mandell Weiss Forum By Andrea Thome Original Music by Sinuhé Padilla Directed by José Zayas Fandangos are vibrant gatherings in which music and dance bring stories of a community to life. For a group of immigrants gathering in a community center on the eve of a city-wide ICE raid, this night’s fandango serves a vital purpose: to resurrect the culture they left behind. Inspired by interviews with immigrants from Latin America – many of whom made a dangerous journey to the United States – Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes) is a celebration of the resiliency and camaraderie that can be built as strangers become friends, friends become family, and the music plays on. This “rapturous” and “riveting“ new play is a “sensitive portrait of the in-between: characters balancing the small joys of everyday life with the fear of uncertainty” (The New York Times). Descripción en Español
![Should Spoon River Anthology be produced?](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/13243409/and_ux7k5n_300x300.png)
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
Should Spoon River Anthology be produced?
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
Special edition conversation about the merits of producing older shows. Shout out to Shaun and Shannon for inspiring this convo.
![Midsummer Night’s Dream (Old Globe)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/13243409/and_ux7k5n_300x300.png)
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
Midsummer Night’s Dream (Old Globe)
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
SEEN: Aug 16, 2022 By William Shakespeare Directed by Patricia McGregor Fall under the spell of Shakespeare’s most joyful and popular comedy. Filled with magic, humor, music, and spectacle, the merriment unfolds in an enchanted forest where fairies play tricks on unsuspecting lovers and bumbling actors are transformed beyond their wildest dreams. With a magic potion that grants love at first sight, anything can, and does, happen!
![Dial M for Murder (The Old Globe)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/13243409/and_ux7k5n_300x300.png)
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Dial M for Murder (The Old Globe)
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
SEEN: Aug 2, 2022 July 21 – August 28, 2022 Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre Conrad Prebys Theatre Center Globe-commissioned world-premiere adaptation By Frederick Knott Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher Directed by Stafford Arima A new version of the celebrated murder mystery that inspired Hitchcock’s masterpiece! Tony is convinced that his wife Margot has been cheating on him. Now it seems that the affair is over, but in his jealousy Tony spins a web of suspicion and deception that will tighten around them and ensnare them both in danger, recrimination, and murder. The New York Times calls Dial M for Murder “a cat-and-mouse waiting game, with enough twists and sudden hitches to keep the chills and thrills running.” Acclaimed playwright Jeffrey Hatcher (Scotland Road, Wait Until Dark) brings us an edge-of-your-seat, world-premiere adaptation of this modern classic, directed in high style by Globe veteran Stafford Arima (Allegiance, Red Velvet) in our most intimate performance space.
![Here There Are Blueberries (La Jolla Playhouse)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/13243409/and_ux7k5n_300x300.png)
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Here There Are Blueberries (La Jolla Playhouse)
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
July 26 – August 21, 2022 Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre By Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich Conceived and Directed by Moisés Kaufman A Co-Production With Tectonic Theater Project What hidden secrets can a photograph reveal? An album of never before seen World War II-era photographs arrives at the desk of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist Rebecca Erbelding. As Rebecca and her team of historians begin to unravel the shocking story behind the images, the album soon makes headlines around the world. In Germany, a businessman sees the album online and recognizes his own grandfather in the photos. He begins a journey of discovery that will take him into the lives of other Nazi descendants – in a reckoning of his family’s past and his country’s history. Here There Are Blueberries tells the story of these photographs – what they reveal about the Holocaust and our own humanity.
![Top Gun: Maverick (not a play!)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/13243409/and_ux7k5n_300x300.png)
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Top Gun: Maverick (not a play!)
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
This is not a play! It is a movie. That we saw at an AMC theatre (shout out to $5 Tuesdays)
![Lempicka (La Jolla Playhouse)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/13243409/and_ux7k5n_300x300.png)
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Lempicka (La Jolla Playhouse)
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Book, Lyrics & Original Concept by Carson Kreitzer Book & Music by Matt Gould Choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly Directed by Rachel Chavkin Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka is a celebrity icon of modernity, famed both for her stunning portraits of jazz era society and for her unapologetic, daring lifestyle. Fleeing political upheaval in St. Petersburg to the glamour of 1920s Paris, Tamara uses her raw talent and relentless ambition to claw her way from penniless refugee to in-demand portraitist. Her world is upended when she meets Rafaela, a free spirit from the city slums, who introduces Tamara to a new world of decadence and passion. Torn between her new muse and her husband, and fighting to leave her mark on an ever-changing world, Tamara must discover the depths of her own strength to survive.
![Steve Martin, Martin Short, LA Phil, Steep Canyon Rangers (Hollywood Bowl)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/13243409/and_ux7k5n_300x300.png)
Saturday Jul 02, 2022
Steve Martin, Martin Short, LA Phil, Steep Canyon Rangers (Hollywood Bowl)
Saturday Jul 02, 2022
Saturday Jul 02, 2022
SEEN: July 2, 2022 Artists Los Angeles Philharmonic Thomas Wilkins, conductor Steve Martin Martin Short Jeff Babko The Steep Canyon Rangers
![Freestyle Love Supreme (the Old Globe)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/13243409/and_ux7k5n_300x300.png)
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Freestyle Love Supreme (the Old Globe)
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
SEEN: JUNE 28, 2022 Conceived by Anthony Veneziale Created by Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Anthony Veneziale Directed by Thomas Kail Before Hamilton, before In the Heights, there was Freestyle Love Supreme. Now—direct from Broadway—the original hip-hop musical improv phenomenon from Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Anthony Veneziale is coming to San Diego. The subject of the Hulu documentary We Are Freestyle Love Supreme, every performance of this Tony Award–winning and Grammy Award–nominated show brings the unexpected, as the crew takes the crowd on a freestyle, hip-hop, improvisational comedy ride. The performers take suggestions from the audience and spin them into instantaneous riffs and full-length musical numbers. See it for the first time—each time—as no two shows are ever the same. A “delightfully wit-laced evening of comedy rap for a wide range of ages” (The Washington Post).
![Taming of the Shrew (Old Globe)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/13243409/and_ux7k5n_300x300.png)
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Taming of the Shrew (Old Globe)
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
SEEN: JUNE 14, 2022 With special guests Colette, Fomby, and Gabe. By William Shakespeare Directed by Shana Cooper “Come on, and kiss me, Kate.” Is anyone a match for the brash and strong-willed Katherine? The dashing adventurer Petruchio thinks he’s up to the challenge. Two of the sexiest figures in all of world theatre set off sparks in a clash of wills that is as bold as it is uproarious. Shakespeare’s masterful comedic take on the battle of the sexes turns everything we think about love, marriage, and gender on its head. Director Shana Cooper brings to the Globe her daring and contemporary staging, which The New York Times praised as “an exhilarating new way to look at the comedy through modern eyes,” and The Wall Street Journal’s theatre critic called “the best Shrew I’ve ever reviewed.” An earlier version of this production of The Taming of the Shrew premiered at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (Davis McCallum, Artistic Director; Kate Liberman, Managing Director) in June 2018. The Taming of the Shrew is supported by lead production sponsor Darlene Marcos Shiley, production sponors Diane Berol in memory of John Berol, Karen and Donald Cohn, Silvija and Brian Devine, The Conrad Prebys Foundation, Jean and Gary Shekhter, and the Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Fund, with additional artist sponsors The Lodge at Torrey Pines (for director Shana Cooper). This production is supported in part by the Jean and Gary Shekhter Fund for Classic Theatre.