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“I AND YOU” streaming from Moxie Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/6/21 RUN DATES: 3/5/21 - 3/28/21 VENUE: Moxie Theatre Pronouns and poetry. Adolescents and angst. PopTarts and mortality. Lauren Gunderson, for a number of the past several years, the most produced living playwright in America, covers a lot of territory in her surprising 2014 play, “I and You.” The one-act won the Steinberg ATCA New Play Award from the American Theatre Critics Association and was a finalist for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, which recognizes Read More →

“HERSHEY FELDER, PUCCINI” streaming from Italy via San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/10/21 RUN DATES: 3/14/21 - 3/21/21 VENUE: Streaming from Italy via the San Diego Repertory Theatre Giacomo Puccini speaks. About his life, his wife, his indiscretions (“I was not a perfect man, perhaps not even a good man”). About his feelings about men and women and love. About his relationship with the maestro Arturo Toscanini. About why the heroines in all his operas have to suffer and die. In “Hershey Felder, Puccini,” sometimes the composer Read More →

“A THOUSAND WAYS” an interactive WOW offering from La Jolla Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 1/31/21 RUN DATES: 1/21/21 - 3/7/21 VENUE: Interactive from La Jolla Playhouse In the near-year since the pandemic upended our lives, and shuttered all performance venues, theater has adapted, morphed and evolved, to meet the changing times. Plays have been presented virtually or on demand — as readings or staged productions on Zoom. Some have been written expressly for Zoom. Some “live” productions take place an empty theater space; some are filmed onstage or green-screened, Read More →

“THE MEETING” streaming from Point Loma Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/2/21 RUN DATES: 2/26/21 - 3/13/21 VENUE: Streaming from Point Loma Playhouse In an arm-wrestle challenge between civil rights icons Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, who do you think would win? If your curiosity is piqued, you should check out “The Meeting,” Jeff Stetson’s 1987 hypothetical drama. The two greats never really had a strength-competition, or even a conversation. They only crossed paths once, when they were both in Washington D.C. to watch the Senate Read More →

HERSHEY FELDER IN “BEFORE FIDDLER,” streaming from Italy, hosted by San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/9/21 RUN DATES: 2/7/21 - 2/14/21 VENUE: Streamed from Italy, hosted by the San Diego Repertory Theatre Hershey Felder, acclaimed pianist-actor-writer-producer and inhabitor of major composers, was born to Eastern European immigrants and grew up in a Jewish enclave of Montreal. Yiddish was spoken in his modern orthodox home (he also speaks six other languages); from a young age, he participated in Yiddish theater. So, it makes perfect sense for him to delve into the Read More →

“cul-de-sac,” streaming from Coronado Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/2/21 RUN DATES: 1/30/21 - 2/14/21 VENUE: Coronado Playhouse For most people, “Keeping up with the Joneses” is just an expression. For the couples sharing a suburban cul-de-sac, it’s a painful daily reality. John Cariani, Tony-nominated actor (for playing Motel the Tailor in the 2004 Broadway revival of “Fiddler on the Roof”), is also a playwright, best known for his first theater work, “Almost, Maine.” “cul-de-sac” (he apparently insists on the lower-case title) was his second Read More →