William Barstad News Today

This week, the San Diego International Kids' Film Festival, Stevie B in concert, Humphrey Bogart marathon on TCM, San Diego Actors Theatre and more

Print It’s mere coincidence that Common Ground Theatre’s long-planned production of “Day of Absence” opened for streaming on Friday, just six days after the death of its venerated 90-year-old playwright Douglas Turner Ward. But the passing of Ward — who cofounded and for many years ran the Negro Ensemble Company in New York — reminds the viewer of how innovative a writer he was, and how this boundary-breaking 1965 play is still, unfortunately, relevant today. The filmed play, direct...