ARROYO's'has ITS MOMENTS Kristoffer Diaz's Play at Old Globe Is Sharp, Well-Acted, but Feels Like It Needs a Story
WELCOME TO ARROYO’S PRESS HIGHLIGHTS REVIEWS SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE October 2, 2010 `WELCOME TO ARROYO'S'HAS ITS MOMENTS Kristoffer Diaz's play at Old Globe is sharp, well-acted, but feels like it needs a story JAMES HEBERT • U-T Details As a peek inside the fer- tile mind of a rising young "Welcome to Arroyo's" playwright, the Old Globe's Where: The Old Globe's "Welcome to Arroyo's" White Theatre, 1393 Old scores big. As a piece of Globe Way. Balboa Park theater, not quite so much. Kristoffer Diaz's rap- When: Tuesdays-Wednes- days. 7 p.m. (plus 2 p.m. edged play has crisp Oct. 13): Thursdays-Fridays. performances, innovative 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 2 and 8 staging, some sharply p.m.; Sundays, 2 and 7 p.m.. funny dialogue and plenty through Oct. 31. Additional of brash attitude. But the performances at Lincoln show also can feel like a High School, Nov. 6, 8 p.m., collection of high concepts and Nov. 7, 6 p.m. in search of a story. It seems odd to call this Tickets: $29-$67 (Globe); an early work by Diaz, a $10415 (Lincoln) 2010 Pulitzer finalist for Phone: (619) 234-5623 "The Elaborate Entrance Online: theoldglobe.org of Chad Deity." After all, the man is barely past. 30. But Diaz began work on place cleaner than a Justin "Arroyo's" a decade ago. Bieber CD," Trip and Considering the playful Nelson crack), receives strain of academic preten- a mysterious visit from a sion threaded through the former neighborhood girl, piece (at one point a char- Lelly (Talc Ashe), who's re- acter nails some personal searching hip-hop history theses to a door and makes as part of a desperate ef- a ,joking proclamation fort to reclaim her Puerto about "reformation"), it Rican heritage.
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