1+ hour, 17+ min ago  (592+ words) When commedia dell’arte meets farce meets vaudeville, you get “Scapin,” comedy writing partners Bill Irwin and Mark O’Donnell’s wild adaptation of Molière’s 17th-century play “Scapin the Schemer” (“Les Fourberies de Scapin”). Different century, even more madcap antics. The 2010 Irwin-O’Donnell adaptation…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (159+ words) San Diego Union-Tribune North Coast Rep will present laugh-filled “Scapin” Wednesday, July 22- Sunday, Aug. 16. Molière’s irresistible comedy of trickery and mayhem is a dazzling new adaptation by Bill Irwin and Mark O’Donnell — reimagined for today’s audiences with fresh American flair…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (997+ words) His family confirmed his death in a statement to People, saying he “passed away peacefully today surrounded by his family.” No location or cause of death was provided. Burrows spent his career behind the camera specializing in situation comedies. Few…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (519+ words) Most “Star Wars” fans take their love for George Lucas’ film canon very seriously. But Mel Brooks tickled the film series’ funny bone with his 1987 film comedy “Spaceballs.” Now comes “High Moon, An Improvised Space Western,” an all-new, jazz-infused comedic…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (334+ words) That’s not one of the quiz words in “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” but it’s an apt description of the charming and offbeat musical that Oceanside Theatre Company opened Saturday at the Brooks Theater. What makes “Spelling Bee” so…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (1034+ words) Classical music aficionados may have never heard of the Musical Merit Foundation, but it’s likely that they’ve benefited from it. The nonprofit’s annual scholarship program boasts a stellar array of past recipients who have graced classical-music stages here and all…...

11+ mon, 4+ week ago  (904+ words) It required three days of ruminating in his back yard for director James Vásquez to hit on his vision for the Old Globe’s new production of Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors.” As a director, Vásquez is an experienced time traveler,…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago  (531+ words) While it’s true that William Shakespeare’s 1590s-era play “The Comedy of Errors” didn’t include the line “chill, my dude” or references to the TV shows “Friends” and “Beavis and Butt-Head,” it’s also true that the Bard would likely have enjoyed…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (411+ words) As theater audiences learned in “Fiddler on the Roof,” Jewish parents by tradition want their children to marry within the faith. And so it goes in James Sherman’s 1989 play “Beau Jest,” which opened in an entertaining new production Saturday at…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (558+ words) To placate her helicoptering Jewish-American parents, Sarah Goldman recruits an actor named Bob Schroeder to play a real-life role, that a Jewish doctor by the name of David Steinberg whom she’s passing off as her boyfriend. Complications of the comedic,…...