by Cassiopeia Guthrie, June 25, 2022 Brilliantly ideated and flawlessly executed from start to finish, Songs for a New World, performed at Sunshine Brooks Theatre and running through Sunday June 26, is a study in intentionality. With only two more performances in the run, audiences should make any effort possible to grab a seat for this show, a collaboration between Oceanside Theatre Company and Teatro San Diego. With music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, Songs for a New Wo

by Cassiopeia Guthrie, June 18, 2022 There’s no escape from Escondido’s summer sun like disappearing into the streets of Florence; The Light in the Piazza, running June 17-25, offers that bit of respite in its two week run at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido as the penultimate musical of CCAE Theatricals’ inaugural season. A 6-time Tony Award winning show, The Light in the Piazza, featuring a book by Craig Lucas and music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, tells the sto

by Cassiopeia Guthrie, June 3, 2022 A Grammy and eight Tony awards together garner a lot of hype; to no surprise, it was with palpable excitement (and a full house) that Hadestown rolled into town for its May 31-June 5 run at Broadway San Diego’s Civic Theatre. After all, the acclaimed new musical, written by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and directed by Rachel Chavkin, is one that draws a crowd. Hadestown is a retelling of a Greek tragedy in which crooning lyre player Orp