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Theatre Review: “normal” At 6th @ Penntheatre

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Published in Gay and Lesbian Times January 30, 2003 If you're looking for the performer behind the performance art, you'd have to surmise that Randall White is a pretty irritated, aggravated guy. In "Normal," a solo show he wrote and performs (and presumably self-directed), all of the characters are floating along outside the mainstream -- disaffected, disappointed, outcast, angst-ridden and angry. They may put on a game face, but Read More →

Theatre Review: “gross Indecency: The Three Trials Of Oscar Wilde” At Diversionary Theatre

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Published in Gay and Lesbian Times January 30, 2003 London. 1895. Oscar Wilde was sitting pretty. At 39, he was the Irish darling of English society: a flamboyant dandy, a celebrated poet, novelist, essayist and playwright. He had two plays running in the West End ("An Ideal Husband" and "The Importance of Being Earnest"). Wilde was so busy skewering English society, he was completely caught off-guard when it skewered Read More →

Theatre Review: “stories About The Old Days” At North Coast Repertory Theatre & “hippolytos” At 6th @ Penn Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: January 24, 2003 It's a good week for contemplating the past. At North Coast Repertory Theatre, there's "Stories About the Old Days," a nostalgic 1986 two-hander about a couple of aging African Americans trying to heal from the errors of their youth. At 6th @ Penn Theatre, the emotions and stakes are high and the history is ancient. "Hippolytos," written by Euripides Read More →

Theatre Review: “ Proof ” At South Coast Repertory Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: January 17, 2003 "Good Will Hunting" meets "A Beautiful Mind" in "Arcadia." Despite the fact that David Auburn's Broadway debut drama, "Proof," won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, it feels strikingly familiar. It concerns an unschooled math prodigy who happens to be a brilliant young woman, and a mathematical genius destroyed by mental illness, with an awe-struck mediocre math-man Read More →

Theatre Review: “proof” At South Coast Repertory Theatre

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Published in Gay and Lesbian Times January 16, 2003 Don't worry about the math. You may have heard that "Proof" is all about the surprising solution to an incredibly elusive mathematical theorem. Relax. There's so little about numbers here even math-phobics can breathe a sigh of relief. Of course, Math-ophiles will probably be disappointed. But that's the way the numbers fall. Of much greater concern Read More →

“ The Producers ” At Civic Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: January 10, 2003 It's 'Springtime for Hitler' and fun-time for San Diego. "The Producers" is here to tickle your funny bone and raise your P.C. hackles. Punch-drunk pot-shots are taken at Jews, blacks, old folks, actors, producers, accountants, even Swedes. If you thought the 1967 movie was lunacy at large, you ain't seen nothin' yet. The inspired insanity of first-time musical theater creator/composer Mel Read More →