Theater

The winner of last year's Pulitzer Prize for drama is currently on stage at the La Jolla Playhouse's Mandell Weiss Theatre. "Ruined," written by Lynn Nottage, is an exceptionally moving experience at the theater.

Some plays on local stages are closing soon, so if you want to get a seat before the curtain closes, this is your chance.

The La Jolla Playhouse's production of "Notes From Underground" based on the novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky has San Diegans talking. Culture Lust wants to hear what you have to say about it.

A play that mixes real events with fiction along with comedy and serious social issues comes to a San Diego stage. David Henry Hwang's play "Yellow Face" looks at complexities of race and is produced by Mo'olelo Performing Arts.

The La Jolla Playhouse is staging a world premiere musical about the life of Charlie Chaplin. "Limelight" named after one of Chaplin's late films, focuses on the personal life of the film legend and includes a book written by the Tony Award winning writer of "Hairspray" and "The Producers." We'll talk with the musical's creative team.

Two San Diegans have crafted a musical love letter to the 1980s and the lost art of the mixtape. Lamb's Players' downtown location, the Horton Grand Theater, provides the stage for this nostalgic tour through the decade that gave us big hair, Journey, and jazzercise. Culture Lust's Angela Carone produced this audio postcard.

La Jolla Playhouse artistic director Christopher Ashley has long wanted to stage his vision of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," a vision that came to him in a fever dream. Now that dream has come true and it includes acrobats, an on-stage orchestra, and a topsy-turvy world for the Bard's lovers.

Culture Lust contributor Jen Paton went to Diversionary Theatre to check out the meta, meta-hit "[title of show]." She shares her thoughts with CL readers.

The Old Globe's Shakespeare Festival is underway with new artistic direction from Adrian Noble, former head of the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. The plays running in repertory are Shakespeare's tragedy, "King Lear," the comedy "Taming of the Shrew," and the Alan Bennett-penned "The Madness of George III." We'll talk with Noble about the Globe's 2010 Shakespeare Festival.

The La Jolla Playhouse produced musical "Memphis" won four Tony Awards on Sunday night, including Best Musical.