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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 →

“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” 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 →

“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” 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 →

“the Playboy Of The Western World” At New Village Arts

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KPBS AIRDATE: March 17, 2006 Grab yer Guinness and go. There isn’t a better time than this month of St. Paddy’s Day to see one of the masterworks of Irish theater… John Millington Synge’s “The Playboy of the Western World.” When it opened at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre in 1907, the play incited riots. The audience threw eggs and potatoes at the actors, because they Read More →