http://www.sandiego.comArts at SanDiego.comdaily1 http://www.sandiego.com/arts/j.s.-bach-and-contemporary-dance-at-uc-san-diego After this weekend’s collaboration (Feb. 3 and 4) with the dance troupe IMAGOmoves, Ruben Valenzuela’s Bach Collegium San Diego will never be accused of keeping early music sequestered in an ivory tower. Nine of Valenzuela’s... Kenneth Herman 2012-02-06T12:00:00-08:00 http://www.sandiego.com/arts/an-enemy-of-the-people-at-intrepid-shakespeare-company An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen’s 1892 indictment of Victorian morality in his native Norway, has been adapted a number of times to make it relevant for contemporary audiences. To open its third season, Intrepid Shakespeare Company ... Bill Eadie 2012-02-06T12:00:00-08:00 http://www.sandiego.com/arts/american-night-the-ballad-of-juan-jose-at-the-la-jolla-playhouse The plot of Richard Montoya’s AMERICAN NIGHT: THE BALLAD OF JUAN JOSE, now at the La Jolla Playhouse, is simple and sturdy. It had better be. There are enough characters, props and ironies to choke a Tea Party Rally. Juan Jose... Welton Jones 2012-02-06T12:00:00-08:00 http://www.sandiego.com/arts/emma-kirkby-sings-handel-and-bach-in-la-jolla Since the 1950s, the way we perform and understand Baroque music has changed significantly. At first this music was guarded as the special province of academics and motivated amateurs, a virtual cottage industry, but in more recent years this re... Kenneth Herman 2012-02-02T12:00:00-08:00 http://www.sandiego.com/arts/salome-opens-san-diego-opera-2012-season It was a gamble opening the San Diego Opera season Saturday (Jan. 28) with Richard Strauss’ kinky, one-act opera “Salome,” but Lady Luck smiled on the local company. An unusually strong vocal cast as well as a trenchant produ... Kenneth Herman 2012-01-30T12:00:00-08:00 http://www.sandiego.com/arts/a-behanding-in-spokane-at-cygnet-theatre Martin McDonagh has a shaggy dog to sell. But watch out, because he might be scamming you. Mr. McDonagh built his reputation by writing highly off-beat character studies set in remote parts of Ireland. Simultaneously hilarious and horrific, h... Bill Eadie 2012-01-30T12:00:00-08:00 http://www.sandiego.com/arts/the-recommendation-at-the-old-globe-theatre THE RECOMMENDATION is a young man’s play, frantic with jagged urgency over choosing the right next step from the options tumbling past so swiftly. But it is we old men, who understand too well how tiny decisions – a traffic violation, a wh... Welton Jones 2012-01-27T12:00:00-08:00 http://www.sandiego.com/arts/how-to-succeed-in-business-without-really-trying-at-welk-resort Originally produced in the same era in which the television series, Mad Men, is set, Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying... Bill Eadie 2012-01-23T12:00:00-08:00 http://www.sandiego.com/arts/steve-reich-celebration-at-uc-san-diego It has to be a culturally encouraging sign that last week’s hot ticket was the Philobolus avant garde dance troupe at the North Park Birch Theatre (two shows, courtesy of the La Jolla Music Society) and Wednesday’s (Jan. 18) equally covet... Kenneth Herman 2012-01-20T12:00:00-08:00 http://www.sandiego.com/arts/dividing-the-estate-at-the-old-globe-theatre I thought we might be finally done with those tragic Old-South epics of the Civil War legacy. The dilapidated plantations, once-proud families, the ruined gallantry, the uncomfortable racial hangovers – but I guess not. The late Horton Foote repo... Welton Jones 2012-01-20T12:00:00-08:00 http://www.sandiego.com/images/newsitem_icon.gifhttp://www.sandiego.com