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Review: La Jolla Playhouse’s world-premiere ‘Working Girl’ is well-timed for Broadway
Joanna "JoJo" Levesque (Tess) and ensemble cast in "Working Girl" at La Jolla Playhouse (Photo by Rich Soublet II) The 1980s seem to be having a moment today. High-waisted jeans, oversized blazers and “Stranger Things”’ quantum leap from Netflix to Broadway are just some of the ways the pre-internet decade is infiltrating our digitally saturated consciousness. Enter the exuberant “Working Girl” — La Jolla Playhouse’s world-premiere musical based on the 1988 film by Kevin Wade
Anita W. Harris
Dec 18, 20255 min read


Review: Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ‘Babbitt’
“Babbitt” is playwright Joe DiPietro’s 2023 adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s 1922 novel that contributed to him winning a Nobel Prize in...
Anita W. Harris
Oct 17, 20244 min read


La Jolla Playhouse’s world premiere of ‘The Outsiders’ stays gold
True to both S.E. Hinton’s seminal 1967 novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s subsequent film, La Jolla Playhouse's world premiere of “The...
Anita W. Harris
Mar 23, 20234 min read
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