Author: Paul Farias

Entertainment

Starting community theater with “A Christmas Carol”

Paul Farias

By the time this article publishes, I will have already performed on the Harbor Playhouse stage. Getting to this stage was a dance with my friends and a fight with myself. I walked into Harbor Playhouse on a sunny September afternoon with two things in mind: the thought that I was out of my element auditioning for “A Christmas Carol,” but the conviction to still give it my all. My afternoon was spent watching many people give stellar performances, meanwhile I stayed worried about my chances about making it in the cast after all. We were told that the cast…

Drama

Lighting strikes again with return of Lightning Bolt Theatre

Paul Farias

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…

Sports, The Porthole

Del Mar College intramurals offered pickleball before it was ‘cool’

Paul Farias

Welcome back to my little Foghorn history corner that I call The Port Hole. It’s based on the name this very newspaper almost used. I was waiting for the right idea to come to me, and I finally got it this semester. Let’s get to some history, shall we? Now, I’m well aware of the fact that the phrase “I knew it before it was cool” has been done to death, but this time it makes sense. Del Mar was onto something decades before it came into public favor, and The Foghorn has records. Of all the recent phenomena to…

Entertainment, Student Spotlight

Holloway finds niche in local theater

Paul Farias

A calling can come from anywhere. The moment where someone stumbles into something that resonates can be found in a variety of locations, and Del Mar drama student Hunter Holloway found his calling from seeing people on stage for a musical. “I saw my first ever community theater show, which was ‘Footloose’ at Aurora Arts Theatre,” Holloway said. From the moment he saw it, he was sold on theater. “I knew that’s what I wanted to do with my life,” Holloway said. He went on to audition for a musical, wanting to give this new medium a try for himself.…

Entertainment

Local theater brings beloved Christmas movie to stage

Paul Farias

Del Mar Drama student Cameron Spencer has been working their way toward getting on a community theater stage for some time. “I’ve been auditioning for Aurora [Arts Theatre] and Harbor [Playhouse] for years,” Spencer said. All that hard work finally paid off when he got the call to be in “A Christmas Story,” a role he accepted. “I was glad to get in,” Spencer said. Based on the 1983 film of the same name, “A Christmas Story: the Musical” follows nine-year-old Ralphie Parker doing anything he can to get his hands on his dream Christmas gift: a Red Ryder carbine…