san diego theatre briefs
RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN Centered on three generations of women, Rapture, Blister, Burn follows
LIVE ARTS FEST Recently taken over by San Diego Dance Theatre, White Box Live Arts resides at
the former Point Loma military training facility, Liberty Station. One of San Diego’s newest “progressive” performances spaces, their goal is to “Facilitate through invitation, grants and sponsors, live art exhibitions and performances from artists residentially, nationally and internationally.” As a part of that purview, they are presenting 11 evening performances of “Cross-Pollinating Dance” fromTuesday, April 12 through Sunday, April 24. Performers include member of the San Diego Dance Theatre, Anne Gehman
and Erin Tracy, the Wheelchair Dancers Association, Melissa Adao, bkSOUL and Collective Purpose, Flamenco Sur, Tanzprojekt Elfi Schaefer-Schafroth and alumni members from the dance program at UCSD. For tickets and more information, call 619.225.1803 or go to
sandiegodancetheater.org.
each who have chosen dramatically different courses, with equally dra- matic outcomes. Gwen and Catherine are friends whose paths followed a similar course until grad school, Catherine going on to become a rock- star academic and Gwen becoming a homemaker. Decades later, after Catherine returns home to care for her ailing mother, each woman must navigate the consequences and successes of those choices... And their covetous jealousies. Catherine starts hosting a weekly seminar on femi- nist theory. Her students are her mother Alice, Gwen and a sexually-free college student named Avery: who try to decide how women’s lives have and have not changed since the 1970s. They find themselves swimming in a full range of philosophies and choices as they search for that elusive goal… happiness. Directed by San Diego Rep’s Sam Woodhouse, this smart comedy centers on examine life, love, sex and happiness as they try to answer the question, what do women really want? Rapture, Blister, Burn, runs from Thursday, April 21 through Sunday, May 15 at the Lyceum Theatre in Downtown San Diego. For tickets and more information, call 619.544.1000 or go to
sdrep.org.
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC The Coronado Playhouse has become one of San Diego’s great sources
for theatre in the region, bringing us classics like: Avenue Q, Boeing Boeing, Tartuffe, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Godspell and most recently, Sugar based on the film Some Like It Hot, with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. A film that put the city’s namesake landmark, the Del Coronado Hotel on the world map. Their latest foray on to their stage is none other than the musical master, Steven Sondheim’sA little Night Music, from Friday, April 1 through Sunday, May 8. The storyline features a famed actress and the men who have loved her over the course of her long career, as all are invited to join the actress and her family for a weekend in the
country...Along with each of the actor’s jealous wives. What could pos- sibly go wrong, with them all in one place? The chance for new romances and second chapters are infinite and bring audiences endless surprises. For tickets and more information, call 619.435.4856 or go to
coronadoplayhouse.com.
JOHN LEGUIZAMO: LATIN HISTORY FOR DUMMIES We could all use a little history lesson on the many contributions of the Latin
community. Who better to teach it than actor/comedian John Leguizamo, who has shown his chops time and again on stage—hello Drama Desk and Outer Critic Circle Award-winner for Ghetto Clown, also developed at LJP—and through a broad range films fromTo Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, to Love in the Time of Cholera and Moulin Rouge. Latin History for Dummies delivers a bit- ing and comic take on 500 years of often-overlooked Latin history, spanning the Aztec and Incan Empires to World War II. “With his incisive comedy and rock-star swagger, any new show by John Leguizamo is a cause for celebration,” says Play- house Artistic Director Christopher Ashley. “After the wildly-successful, sold-out Page to Stage production a few years ago, we’re honored to welcome John back to develop this one-man show, which takes on hilarious new turf in John’s uproari- ous and inimitable style.” The production will run fromTuesday, April 5 through Sunday, April 17on the Mandell Weiss Theatre stage. Fr ickets and more information call 858.550.1010 or go to
lajollaplayhouse.org.
JESUS HATES ME Picture this: A Christian-themed golf course, where Jesus predominantly hangs from a cross at one of Blood of the Lamb’s
Miniature Golf Course holes, along with various other New Testament tableaus peppering the course’s verdant landscape. Wayne Lemon’s off-kilter play is part dark comedy, part thriller, featuring burdened, young Ethan, his religiously-obsessed mother, Annie and a group of equally-encumbered friends, Trane, Lizzy, Boone and Georgie. All who are seemingly stuck in a dead-end rural Texas town. StagingJesus Hates Me, fromSaturday, April 16 through Saturday, May 14, is one of Hillcrest’s sparkling jewels, the Ion Theatre, a group with a reputation of putting on adventurous, provocative, always interesting and often new productions. For tickets and more information, call 619.600.5020 or go to
iontheatre.com.
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