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“IRIS AND THE AXE” streaming (and live) from Turnkey Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/13/21 RUN DATES: 10/1/21 - 10/31/21 VENUE: Turnkey Theatre (live and streamed) The sound is eerie. The visuals are spooky. The story is suspenseful. Turnkey Theatre’s “Iris and the Axe” does, in fact, have an axe — and you get to determine who wields it and who gets whacked. In pursuing their mission of presenting black-box interactive theater, the 6-month old San Diego company invites you to choose-your-own-adventure, to determine the outcome of this inventive murder Read More →

“MOTHER ROAD” at San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/19/21 RUN DATES: 10/7/21 - 10/31/21 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre In his seminal, Pulitzer Prize-winning 1939 novel of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl migration, “The Grapes of Wrath,” John Steinbeck called Route 66 “the Mother Road, the path of people in flight.” In 2014, the National Steinbeck Center commissioned acclaimed Latinx playwright Octavio Solis to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the book’s publication. He decided to pick up the story where it left Read More →

“HAIR” outdoors at The Old Globe

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/17/21 RUN DATES: 8/10/21 - 10/3/21 VENUE: The Old Globe Political protests. Racial and socioeconomic inequality. A deep generational divide. Controversy over a long-term, unpopular war. We could be living in the ‘60s. Even bell-bottoms and tie-dye are back (though, thankfully, not the Draft). No show embodied the adolescent angst and malaise of that era more than “Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical,” which premiered at New York’s Public Theatre in 1967, opened on Broadway in Read More →

“ON YOUR FEET” at Moonlight Stage Productions

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 9/18/21 RUN DATES: 9/15/21 - 10/2/21 VENUE: Moonlight Stage Productions “Washing cleans the clothes,” Gloria Estefan’s mother tells her young daughter as they do the laundry. “Music cleans the soul.” Both were named Gloria. Both were singers with big dreams. Gloria got to live out her mother’s fantasies Big Time, becoming the first major Latin crossover artist and selling 100 million records worldwide, thereby making the list of the Top 100 Best-Selling Musical Artists in Read More →

“DIANA: THE MUSICAL” streaming on Netflix

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/3/21 RUN DATES: 10/1/21 - ongoing VENUE: Netflix See it at home before Broadway! Read the full review here. Read More →

“THE DROWNING GIRLS” at OnStage Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 9/10/21 RUN DATES: 9/3/21 - 9/26/21 VENUE: OnStage Playhouse Remember the Paul Simon song “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”? Well, the 1999 play, “The Drowning Girls,” offers one (nearly) foolproof way to off your wife. We never meet the perpetrator. We just learn of his nefarious acts from three of his bathtub-drowned wives. The tales of these lovely, waterlogged ghosts are spookily the same: whirlwind wooing and isolation from family; quick, short-lived marriage (mere days or Read More →