http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/articles.sec-38-1-theater.html Drawing from The Real World, Survivor and any number of reality dating shows, Nobody Loves You posits after much song, dance and wisecracks that the only love that matters is the real thing; what’s manufactured for voyeuristic cameras and equally voyeuristic TV viewers is all phony baloney.]]> If you live in East Texas and you don’t own a truck, you’re a loser—or so believe the contestants vying to win a hardbody truck, courtesy of the Floyd King Nissan Dealership in Longview.]]> The Scottsboro Boys, a product of the prodigious team of John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago), is no sunny, hum-along musical. ]]> An inescapable claustrophobia prevails in Ion Theatre’s production of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog / Underdog.]]> There is much baring of soul and conscience in Brownie Points, and, to some degree, the comic relief ceases to relieve.]]> The Pride puts under the microscope the complexity of gay attraction and relationships.]]> A Man, his Wife, and his Hat would seem to address the quandaries of love in dissecting the uneasy relationship between Hetchman (Mark C. Petrich) and Hilda (Robin Christ) and the relationship between their future grown daughter (Jennifer Eve thorn) and her fiancée (Albert Park). But it’s not that elementary.]]> For all its force and fluency, Sam Shepard’s Buried Child is the theatrical equivalent of two-plus hours in an asylum. ]]> Imagine the task of translating T.C. Boyle’s sprawling novel The Tortilla Curtain into a one-act piece of theater. ]]> From the moment the bone-tired and recalcitrant Anna Christie plops herself down in Johnny-the-Priest’s saloon, you suspect that she’s the proverbial “woman with a past.”]]> The Old Globe Theatre’s production of a musical by Marc Acito (book) and Jeffrey Stock (music and lyrics) based on the 1908 novel by E.M. Forster is impeccable in its costuming
]]> Seema Sueko directs a Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company production that uses only two actors: Brian Bielawski as the reporter and Greg Watanabe as all the other characters, male and female.]]> At one point in Geoffrey Nauffts’ Next Fall, agnostic Adam (Matt McGrath) opines to his devoutly religious lover, Luke (Stewart Calhoun), that judgment is such a popular pastime of Christians that they’ve got an entire day named for it.]]> There’s one at every Thanksgiving dinner: the family member or friend who pontificates and preaches about politics, the rest of the guests be damned. ]]> Moxie Theatre offers a production of A Raisin in the Sun (directed with a deft touch by Delicia turner Sonnenberg) that’s absorbing from word one to final curtain.]]> American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, now at La Jolla Playhouse, is a madcap and frequently potent lesson in U.S. history.]]> Aaron and Izzy’s friendship, during and beyond college, is the foundation of Jonathan Caren’s new play, The Recommendation, ]]> The Old Globe’s West Coast premiere of the 1989 Foote play, staged on a sumptuous ground-floor-mansion set, becomes rather claustrophobic, mostly when there’s too much dead space between laughs.]]> The singing coming from the general direction of Horton Plaza isn’t that of some leftover holiday carolers.]]> The ostensible chief conflict of The Lion in Winter is how uneasy lies the head of Henry, which wears the crown of England.]]>