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“TROUBLE IN MIND” at Moxie Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 2/6/15 RUN DATES: 2/5/15 - 2/22/15 VENUE: Moxie Theatre In the 1950s – much like today – America was a fraught cauldron of Us-Them dichotomies: suspected Communists vs. presumed Patriots; blacks vs. whites. Into this maelstrom stepped playwright Alice Childress and her sometimes comical but deeply moving drama, “Trouble in Mind.” It’s a provocative play-within-a-play, centered on a white director helming a mostly African American cast. The piece they’re rehearsing is laced with black stereotypes Read More →

2021 IN REVIEW: Best San Diego Theater of the Year

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/28/21 Whew! Whatta year! What a two-year debacle, actually. It’s been harrowing, distressing, depressing, anxiety-provoking and more. Oh, and lately, increasingly contagious. Just when we were getting back to going out to the theater… things aren’t looking so good again for indoor gatherings. Sigh. Theater cancellations have hit New York hard, and started to trickle in, in San Diego, at the end of the year. 2021 was sort of the inverse of 2020, which started Read More →

“HYPE-MAN” streaming from co-presenter San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 4/14/21 RUN DATES: 4/8/21 - 5/8/21 VENUE: A production of the American Repertory Theatre and Company One Theatre, co-presented by the San Diego REP “Sometimes, you gotta get on up and just say it!” Fight the power. Object to the status quo. Protest the senseless police killing of Black people. It took the (presumably fictional) Boston murder of 17 year-old Jerrod Davis — unarmed, but shot by police 18 times — to nearly break up a Read More →

“WITCHLAND” from Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 11/24/21 RUN DATES: 11/18/21 - 12/11/21 VENUE: Backyard Renaissance Theatre Ahh, lovely, pastoral Richland, situated in southeast Washington State, at the confluence of the Yakima and Columbia Rivers. A plethora of outdoor activities. Three hundred days of sunshine a year. And something a lot darker down below. In 1943, the U.S. Army established the Hanford Engineering Works (now called the Hanford Site). It was there, as part of the Manhattan Project, that 74 tons of Read More →

“AZUL” at Diversionary Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/5/21 RUN DATES: 11/19/21 - 12/19/21 VENUE: Diversionary Theatre What are the odds? Two Cuba-set plays in one week. About Castro and the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. With Cuban music. At the same time OnStage Playhouse is premiering Herbert Sigüenza’s holiday show, “A People’s Cuban Christmas,” Diversionary Theatre is presenting the West coast premiere of “Azul,” by C Qunitana. Much of CQ’s 2019 play (which premiered at the Southern Rep Theatre in New Orleans) is Read More →

“A PEOPLE’S CUBAN CHRISTMAS” at OnStage Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/5/21 RUN DATES: 12/1/21 - 12/19/21 VENUE: OnStage Playhouse Can a person find redemption? Can a country? The former forms the spine of Charles Dickens’ 1843 classic, “A Christmas Carol.” The latter question is at the heart of Herbert Sigüenza’s “A People’s Cuban Christmas Tale,” having its world premiere at OnStage Playhouse in Chula Vista. In his Playwright’s Note in the digital program, Sigüenza, co-founder of the acclaimed Latino comedy troupe, Culture Clash, and resident playwright Read More →