Reviews

New Companies, New Plays

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KPBS AIRDATE:  September 08, 2006 There’s a dramatic fall harvest you might not know about in San Diego – fresh, new theater groups are springing up, and new plays are being cultivated. 6th @ Penn Theatre and downtown’s newest venue, New World Stage, have a busy schedule hosting fledgling companies and premiering new works. Reconnoiter Theater just made an impressive debut at 6th @ Penn, with Read More →

“curtain Calls” A Frisson Of Fission

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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 09/01/06 Millie gets a Push while digging for gold And in Copenhagen , memories slowly unfold. THE SHOW: COPENHAGEN , Michael Frayn’s Tony Award-winning drama (Best Play, 2000) Read More →

“copenhagen” At Cygnet Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE:  September 01, 2006 A conversation took place 65 years ago, and it’s still a matter of controversy and conjecture. It was 1941. Denmark was under Nazi occupation. German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a dangerous, clandestine visit to his former mentor, Danish physicist Niels Bohr. Although the two brilliant, Nobel Prize-winning scientists were colleagues and friends, they were on opposite sides of the war, both Read More →

“curtain Calls” Holding Out For A Hero

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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 08/25/06 No one can be hyper-critical When good plays become political Lincolnesque is in D.C. And Eyolf’s by a Norway sea. While Five Cups is Read More →

“lincolnesque” At The Old Globe / “little Eyolf” By Tonic Productions At 6th @ Penn Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE:  August 25, 2006 Theater, where the old meets the new. A fledgling company marks a great playwright’s centenary, and the Old Globe presents a provocative world premiere. A celebration of two influential men: Henrik Ibsen, the father of modern drama, and Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president. “Lincolnesque” is the title of Read More →

“curtain Calls” Speak The Speech

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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 08/18/06 Bacharach was here, to hear his songs, And The Wizard sang Oz singalongs. While Hamlet indecisively gnashed his molars And two wackos made us all wear bowlers. THE Read More →