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“tongue Of A Bird” By Stone Soup Theatre Company At The 10th Avenue Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE:  April 07, 2006 Losing and finding. Flying and crash-landing. Mothers and daughters, sanity and madness. The themes pile up in Ellen McLaughlin’s other-worldly “Tongue of a Bird.” The playwright was best known as the angel who crashed through the ceiling in the Broadway production of “Angels in America.” Still soaring from that experience, apparently, she wrote a flying woman into her 1999 play. Fortunately, Read More →

“curtain Calls” An Alarmin’ Carmen

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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 03/31/06 The Housekeeper’s darkly funny; Carmen has Passion and Honey While the Thai King and I avert romance With that musical question, “Shall We Dance?” THE SHOW: Read More →

“what The Butler Saw” & “the Housekeeper” At 6th @ Penn Theatre & “the Nerd” At North Coast Repertory Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE:  March 31, 2006 If you’ve got a sinking feeling from the rampant rise in gas prices, national debt and global temperatures, what you need is a little comic relief. San Diego stages to the rescue! Three comedic offerings might tickle your funny bone, or at least make you forget your personal and political pain. One’s a bona fide farcical Read More →

“curtain Calls” Sew Fine

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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 03/24/06 Comedy, tragedy and everything between: A Nerd, a seamstress and an opera queen. Intimate Apparel’s tale subtly unfolds; Emotions are Wagnerian in Twilight of the Read More →

“intimate Apparel” At The San Diego Repertory Theatre / “the Twilight Of The Golds” At Diversionary Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE:  March 24, 2006 Small stitches; big, operatic emotions. A heart-breaking life in the past; a frightening conception of the future. Two dramatic productions that, as a thinking person, you dare not miss: “Intimate Apparel” and “The Twilight of the Golds.” A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2004, “Intimate Apparel” is currently the most produced play in Read More →

“curtain Calls” Rogues With Brogues

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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 03/17/06 Tab was a gay-boy Synge did The Playboy Lotsa hanky-panky ‘ tween Read More →

“San Diego is a hotbed of theater. Every year, I see 200-250 productions. This is fertile ground for new work. In addition to the prodigious local talent, theatermakers from around the country come here to premiere their latest creations. San Diego sends more shows to Broadway than nearly any other city in the U.S.”

-Pat Launer

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