{"id":486866,"date":"2026-10-06T12:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/486866\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T12:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:06:19","slug":"which-brother-is-on-the-way-up-and-which-is-on-the-way-down-san-diego-jewish-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/486866\/","title":{"rendered":"Which brother is on the way up and which is on the way down? \u2013 San Diego Jewish World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">By Sandi Masori in San Diego<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-191188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/top-fog-umder-dog-photo-Rich-Soublet-II-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"  \/>Cast members in Top<br \/>Dog\/ Underdog at Old Globe Theatre (Photo: Rich Soublet II)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-184303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791288379_684_Samdi-Masori-9-25-113x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\"  \/>Sandi Masori<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The new show at The Old Globe, Topdog\/ Underdog, is a powerful story of two brothers, Lincoln (Alano Miller) and Booth (Elijah Jones) who are struggling to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Lincoln has given up hustling after a friend\u2019s death spooked him, and Booth is trying to become a better hustler. Linc, as his brother calls him, is trying to go straight by working as a Lincoln actor in a shooting gallery. He\u2019s worried that he will be replaced by a wax figure and out of a job, and as the only Black Lincoln, he\u2019s in a precarious spot to begin with.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Booth is trying to improve his three-card monte skills and wants Linc to come out of retirement to work the streets with him.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Scenic designer Arnel Sanciano\u2019s set is very elaborate for theater-in-the round. Everything takes place in their apartment. The stage has carnival style lights underneath it and is on an interestingly shaped platform. Under the platform trash and cards are thrown around to give it that post-carnival feeling.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The chemistry between Miller and Jones is palpable. One would think these equity actors were brothers in real life, so natural was their repartee.\u00a0 And if Miller looks familiar, it\u2019s because he has a string of tv credits (and award nominations) under his belt.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is the second play the Globe has staged with playwright Suzan-Lori Parks: the last one was Appropriate a couple years back.\u00a0 In the program artistic director Barry Edelstein notes that he first saw this play in 2001 and has been wanting to stage it since then.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is not a show for young kids, as it has adult language and themes, but it\u2019s an interesting slice of life for the adult audience.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Topdog\/ Underdog plays through October 18th.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">*<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Associate Editor Sandi Masori is a theater and food reviewer for San Diego Jewish World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Sandi Masori in San Diego Cast members in TopDog\/ Underdog at Old Globe Theatre (Photo: Rich Soublet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-486866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}