Category: Drama

If handwriting is a dying art, then I am single-handedly keeping it alive. Or at least, that’s how I feel when I’m working on Del Mar Drama’s latest play, “Leading Ladies.” For those who don’t know, “Leading Ladies” takes the premise of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” and mixes it with the 1959 film “Some Like It Hot” to make one hilariously ridiculous play. The play takes place in 1958 and follows two struggling Shakespearean actors, Leo and Jack, as they seek to fleece the ailing Florence out of her large inheritance by posing as two missing family members of hers. Soon,…

I’ve never had to triple down in my life. Sure I’ve doubled down on countless occasions, but going a step beyond that has never been in the cards for me. Or at least it wasn’t, up until I got involved in this year’s “The Rocky Horror Show.” Much like last year’s production, I auditioned for the musical first, just in case I could get into the cast. When that didn’t work, I pivoted right back to my usual spot: the band. I had been talking with the music director for about a month by the time I had auditioned, and…

After a six-year hiatus, Del Mar Drama is performing “Lightning Bolt Theatre” at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 22 and 23 in the Finley Theatre on Heritage Campus. “It’s all student-written material, original stuff,” drama professor Carl Yowell said. Previous performances have seen students put together and perform full plays. “Lightning Bolt has historically been a bunch of different projects,” Yowell said. “We’ve done original plays, we’ve done sketch comedy, like ‘Saturday Night Live,’ we did puppet theater.” For this installation, Yowell has opted for a more individualized approach to the students’ productions. “This year, it’s student-written monologues,” Yowell said. “There may…