San Diego Arts

Aviv String Quartet at UC San Diego
Panache and Muscle
Amid the plethora of up-and-coming string quartets, the Aviv String Quartet, an ensemble of serious-minded and highly disciplined young Israeli musicians, paid a visit to UC San Diego’s new ... [More]

Tara Donovan at the Downtown MCASD
An Elephant in the Museum?
Did you like blowing bubbles as a child? Just by waving a soapy wand through the air one could create fragile orbs gleaming with iridescent rainbows. A soap bubble floating through the air is ethereal and fascinating. Several ... [More]

'Myth Project V - Cowboys: The American Heroes' at SUSHI
Hit and miss
We can thank Buffalo Bill Cody for our love affair with the American cowboy. His Wild West Show toured the world in the late 1880's, and big city audiences flocked to see the spectacle of re-enacted attacks on stagecoaches, shooting ... [More]

"Picasso at the Lapin Agile" at New Village Arts Theatre, Carlsbad
Genius creativity comes in countless, often confounding forms, not always instantly obvious. Somewhere in a disreputable dive tonight, ideas shaping the 21st Century and beyond may spark against each other, not quite ready to ignite but getting ... [More]

San Diego Symphony Plays Mendelssohn and Strauss
Our neighbors of the great metropolis to the north find themselves in the midst of a publicity barrage that is capitalizing on the young, photogenic Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel. This celebrity phenomenon has a ... [More]

City Ballet of San Diego's 'Giselle' at the Spreckels Theatre
Rich production, memorable performances
City Ballet of San Diego, a company known for its sleek Balanchine productions, retained historical details and deep emotions in its attractive revival of "Giselle" at the Spreckels Theatre over the weekend.<p ... [More]

Boston Marriage at Compass Theatre
A play about women from a guy's guy
Hillcrest's Compass Theatre postponed its production of David Mamet's "Boston Marriage" from spring to fall. The wait was worth it.If anything, David Mamet is a "guy's guy" as a playwright. From sleazy real estate salesmen ... [More]

Bach Collegium San Diego Performs Handel's "Dixit Dominus"
Period Music that Packs a Punch
The revival and rediscovery of Baroque music has had more incarnations than Cher has scheduled farewell appearances. In 1829, Felix Mendelssohn launched the Bach revival with his performance of J. S. Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" in Berlin, a ... [More]

Bent at Diversionary Theatre
Broadway's first gay play at 30
"Bent," now playing through November 22 as a co-production of Diversionary Theatre and ion theatre, was arguably the first gay play to have a Broadway run. There could well be dispute about this statement among purists, for "Bent" ... [More]

Mozart "Requiem" at Copley Hall
Popular mythology and movie lore would have us believe that Mozart composed his glorious "Requiem" for himself in an otherworldly premonition of his untimely demise at age 35. This is at most a half-truth, for when Mozart signed the ... [More]