By Barbara Smith When director Steve H. Broadnax III talks about Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog, opening September 25 at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, he returns again and again to one word that might surprise those familiar with the Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy: love. “This play is a love story,” Broadnax says. “It is about ...

By Barbara Smith With the curtain set to rise on August Wilson’s enduring drama Fences at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, two of its leading actors—De’Adre Aziza (Broadway’s Redwood, Passing Strange – Tony nomination) and Dorian Missick (Prime Video’s 56 Days, Off Broadway’s A Soldier’s Play)— and their director, Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, recently offered a ...

by Barbara Smith A missing pearl necklace, strange noises in the attic, a flickering gaslight. Add to this an unsolved murder and you have a collection of mysterious occurrences in the psychological thriller Deceived, which opened at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre last week. The play, enjoying its West Coast premiere, is an intriguing re-imagining ...