Globe’s ‘Scottsboro Boys’ entertains, challenges

It is not often that a musical can simultaneously entertain and challenge the audience. “The Scottsboro Boys” at The Old Globe through June 10 successfully does both.

It is not often that a musical can simultaneously entertain and challenge the audience. “The Scottsboro Boys” at The Old Globe through June 10 successfully does both.

A delightful, funny play about what happens when a slightly batty — but well-intentioned — aunt decides to play matchmaker can be seen in Poway through May 20.

The Old Globe has announced its 2012 – 2013 season lineup, including a world premiere show starring “Star Trek’s” George Takei.

PowPAC, Poway’s Community Theatre, continues its 30th season with the romantic comedy “Getting Sara Married,” opening Friday, April 20 and running through Sunday, May 20.

A visually impacting and thought-provoking play on immigration and and entitlement is at the Lyceum Stage through April 8

Tickets are now on sale for the POW! Foundation’s fall season, beginning in September and running through December at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts.

The late, great Ethel Merman returns to the stage, thanks to Rita McKenzie and her one-woman show, “Ethel Merman’s Broadway.”

A moving and emotionally charged production of Eugene O’Neill’s “Anna Christie” is playing at The Old Globe through April 15.

An often funny, but definitely not politically correct, musical about two Broadway producers trying to stage a flop in order to become millionaires is playing at the Welk Resort Theatre through March 25.

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a little Irish dancing, thanks to the Rose-Ritchie Academy of Irish Dance, who will be performing a free show 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 14 at the Rancho Penasquitos Library.