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“SISTER ACT” at San Diego Musical Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 5/17/19 RUN DATES: 4/26/19 - 5/26/19 VENUE: San Diego Musical Theatre You’ve got your brotherhood of gangsters and your sisterhood of nuns. And a bevy of characters straight out of central casting: the gun-shy cop and the hard-nosed Mother Superior. The jocular Monsignor and the repressed novitiate who yearns for excitement. “Sister Act” is kind of silly, and it doesn’t run deep, but it’s very entertaining. You just have to suspend all your disbelief… which Read More →

“VOYEURS DE VENUS” at Moxie Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 8/24/18 RUN DATES: 8/12/18 - 9/2/18 VENUE: Moxie Theatre “Race is what I do,” African American playwright Lydia Diamond has said. “Race and gender, sexuality and class.” Check, check and check. These issues reverberate throughout her 2002 play, “Voyeurs de Venus,” in addition to a heap of other subjects, including colonialism, victimization, objectification, exploitation and conciliation, punctuated by sex, gore, dance, nudity and a minstrel show. The play, getting an excellent production at Moxie Theatre, under the Read More →

“HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES” at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 4/20/18 RUN DATES: 4/11/18 - 5/13/18 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre He may be England’s most prolific playwright: 82 plays and counting, over the last 60 years. He may be a knight. He may create juicy and colorful characters. But the comedies of Sir Alan Ayckbourn are rife with cynicism – especially about marriage. And despite the fact that his 1982 diversion, “How the Other Half Loves,” is as clever as his other works, it Read More →

“HELLO, DOLLY!” from Broadway San Diego at the Civic Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 1/18/19 RUN DATES: 1/15/19 - 1/20/19 VENUE: Broadway San Diego at the Civic Theatre Growing up in New York during what turned out to be the Golden Age of the American Musical, I was privileged to have seen the original casts of many of the greats, “Hello, Dolly!” among them. I first saw Carol Channing in the lead in 1964, the year the fabulous Jerry Herman show opened – and ran for 2844 performances. I Read More →

“A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS” at The Old Globe

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/31/18 RUN DATES: 3/23/18 - 4/29/18 VENUE: The Old Globe “The only skill you need,” her mother tells young Mariam, is “Tahamul.” Endurance. And endure Mariam must – a tormented rural childhood followed by an abusive, barren marriage. And then Laila comes into her life: free-spirited Laila, who is urban, privileged, educated and blissfully happy – until a bomb destroys her home and family. Desperate and penniless, she agrees to marry Mariam’s monstrous husband – becoming Read More →

“MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING” at The Old Globe

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 8/31/18 RUN DATES: 8/12/18 - 9/16/18 VENUE: The Old Globe That wittiest, quippiest of couples is at it again. Beatrice and Benedick are back at The Old Globe for the 13th time. In Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” one of the greatest romantic comedies ever written, the linguistically acrobatic antagonists repeatedly swear they can’t stand each other -- until they’re tricked into embracing mutual devotion and marriage. In a parallel love story, young Claudio is more malevolently Read More →