“curtain Calls” Since Africa
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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 10/20/06 Consider it an Outsider’s Life X 3: An African, a Golem and a Bug conspiracy. OUT OF AFRICA THE SHOW: Since Read More →
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“miss Witherspoon” At San Diego Repertory Theatre / “culture Clash’s Zorro In Hell” At La Jolla Playhouse
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KPBS AIRDATE: October 13, 2006 Here’s a little election-season treat: a dollop of politics, a dash of religion, wrapped in satirical comedy. A couple of light bonbons with a dark layer underneath. The La Jolla Playhouse is serving up “Culture Clash’s Zorro in Hell” and the San Diego Repertory Theatre is ladling out “Miss Witherspoon.” The title character in Read More →
“curtain Calls” The Wiz
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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 10/13/06 The Merry Widow , Miss Witherspoon, had plenty of cause for alarm: She met The Wiz while Movin’ Out of her sludge-and Pig-filled Farm. THE BUMPY BRICK ROAD Read More →
“four Queens – No Trump” At Common Ground Theatre / “middle-aged White Guys” At 6th @ Penn Theatre
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KPBS AIRDATE: October 06, 2006 White men, black women. When each group gets together for a ritual experience, sparks inevitably fly. The assemblages couldn’t be more different, though you could say ‘trash’ unites them. “Middle-Aged White Guys” features one seriously low-end, trashy family. And “Four Queens - No Trump” introduces a quartet of middle-class African American women assembled for their weekly game of bid-whist – and Read More →
“Curtain Calls” Zorro in Hell
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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 10/06/06 Trashy White Guys and hip black chicks, Hemingway’s Rose and Trolley’s last kicks. And also, don’t say I didn’t warn ya’: Zorro’s back in California . CRAZY LIKE A FOX THE SHOW: Culture Clash’s Zorro in Hell, the Chicano crazies’ latest nutty/political creation (an actual play, with a plot!), part of a trilogy about The Golden State. This is a world premiere, co-produced and -commissioned by Berkeley Repertory Read More →
“ain’t You Heard?” By Ira Aldridge Repertory Players At Express Stage
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KPBS AIRDATE: September 29, 2006 When you were in school, did they teach you about the Harlem Renaissance? Did you learn about novelists like Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright? What about the ‘poet laureate of Harlem ,” Langston Hughes? Surprisingly, in a recent Q&A with audiences both black and white, few had learned about or read Hughes or the other Read More →
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-Pat Launer