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FEATURE: The Next Wave in Virus-Adjusted San Diego Theater: Serial Online Productions

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 5/28/20 For two months, we’ve all been attentively Zoomed in. But are we getting Zoomed-out? We’ve been Zooming along, with meetings and readings, classes and confabs, virtual happy hours and birthday parties. Taken altogether, it can all be a bit much. But since it seems like it’ll be a good long time before we all convene in a theater again, San Diego theatermakers are continuing to explore and exploit the medium. In its most recent Read More →

FEATURE: Pablo Picasso Comes to Life in a Pandemic-fueled stage-to-screen adaptation

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/24/20 RUN DATES: 9/17/20 - 10/14/20 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre You are hereby invited to spend “A Weekend with Pablo Picasso.” Okay, maybe not a whole weekend… but the length of a feature film about a weekend. The solo theater piece of the same name, a tour de force written and performed by Herbert Sigüenza, premiered in 2010 at the San Diego Repertory Theatre (which commissioned it), was reprised there in 2013. Last year, it Read More →

“NECESSARY SACRIFICES” filmed by North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 9/12/20 RUN DATES: 9/10/20 - 10/11/20 VENUE: Filmed by North Coast Repertory Theatre In these perilous times, in the throes of a pandemic when all theater doors are shut, filmed productions are emerging as the next best thing to being there. And yet… In Richard Hellesen’s ”Necessary Sacrifices,” based on two documented meetings between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, we’re supposed to be flies on the wall, observing the spirited (imagined) conversations. But while that’s Read More →

“THE NICETIES” filmed by Moxie Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 9/19/20 RUN DATES: 9/17/20 - 10/4/20 VENUE: Filmed play from Moxie Theatre The setup is inherently combustible. The subject is the role of race in American history. From the get-go, “The Niceties” is fraught with inequities: there’s a power differential, a generational divide and a racial disparity. The debaters (combatants?) are smart, feminist women in an elite liberal arts college. The distinguished professor is white; the ambitious, activist student is Black. It all begins with the student’s Read More →

“A WEEKEND WITH PABLO PICASSO” filmed by San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 9/25/20 RUN DATES: 9/1720 - 10/14/20 VENUE: Filmed version from San "Diego Repertory Theatre A weekend in the south of France is compressed into 80 minutes. Watch the master paint; watch him bathe – and eat and smoke (a lot). And create art from fishbones, or from junk found on the street. See him don a clown’s nose and a bullfighter’s cape. And hear him talk. About politics and painting and art. This fabulous facsimile Read More →

“MARGIN OF ERROR” from The Roustabouts Theatre Co.

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/5/20 RUN DATES: 8/3/20 - 8/23/20 VENUE: Online from The Roustabouts Theatre Co. To launch their (virtual) fourth season, The Roustabouts are streaming a videotaped version of their inaugural production, the world premiere, “Margin of Error,” which debuted at the Lyceum Theatre in 2017. Written by Roustabouts co-founder Will Cooper, and starring another co-founder, Ruff Yeager (the third member of the founding triumvirate is write/actor/director Phil Johnson), the play concerns genius, ethics and morality. My original Read More →