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FEATURE: San Diego Pays Tribute to LGBT Heroes with “DEAR HARVEY” Documentary

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 6/23/20 RUN DATES: 6/26/20 - 7/12/20 VENUE: Breakthrough Workshop Theatre Ira and Patty and Thomas and Dan. It takes a village to pay tribute to Harvey Milk. Milk, a prominent and dynamic civil rights activist, was the first openly gay elected official in the history of California. He championed the rights of all people: gay, women, the elderly, minorities and union members. But in 1978, after serving only 11 months on the San Francisco Board Read More →

“ALICE” at Lamb’s Players Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 3/20/20 RUN DATES: 2/29/20 - 4/12/20 VENUE: Lamb's Players Theatre Adults often try to recapture the wonder of childhood. In a similar vein, Lamb’s Players Theatre likes to dig deep into its past and revisit earlier productions, thereby accomplishing two things at once. In 1993, in its National City location, the group, at that time still a repertory company, presented “Alice in Concert,” an unusual musical cornucopia written in 1980 by the late Obie Award-winning playwright/composer Read More →

FEATURE: Pandemic Quarantine Creates Opportunities for Aspiring Young California Playwrights

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 4*30/20 Calling all budding young writers! If you’re 18 or under, why not try your hand at a play? Just come up with some characters, a conflict and some dialogue. The Playwrights Project is seeking submissions to its 36th annual California Young Playwrights Contest. The idea was the brainchild of Deborah Salzer, Playwrights Project founder, who says, “When I lead classroom residencies today, I tell students what I said 36 years ago: ‘I believe Read More →

Pandemic Theater Beyond Zoom: “HUMAN ERROR” at North Coast Repertory Theatre and “THE DAZZLE” from Backyard Renaissance Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 6/22/20 RUN DATES: 6/15/20 - 6/28/20 VENUE: on Zoom As the pandemic grinds on, and business openings have folks holding their breath and bracing for the next wave of infection, more and more theater companies nationwide are postponing their seasons to 2021. Restricted to Zoom but frustrated by its boxy confinements, theatermakers are becoming more inventive. Two San Diego theater companies have broken out of the box and created imaginative productions that maintain social distancing but Read More →

PREVIEW: 2020 SEASON AT DIVERSIONARY THEATRE

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Printed and posted at the San Diego Jewish Journal 12/19 http://sdjewishjournal.com/sdjj/december-2019/emotionally-moving-and-intellectually-stimulating/ Language is a living, breathing thing. It evolves to encompass new inventions, concepts and thinking. And how we talk about gender has certainly been evolving. So, before we start exploring the exciting new season coming up at Diversionary Theatre, the nation’s third oldest continuously producing LGBTQ theater, let’s lay down a few definitions, so we’re all on the same page. It's all about gender identity and gender Read More →

“A CHORUS LINE” at the Welk Resort Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 1/24/20 RUN DATES: 1/10/20 - 3/20/20 Closed prematurely due to the coronavirus pandemic VENUE: Welk Resort Theatre Nothing has changed in the 45 years since “A Chorus Line” debuted in 1975. Based on gifted director/co-choreographer Michael Bennett’s interviews with real Broadway ensemble dancer/singers, the show is perhaps the most genuine, heartfelt, gut-wrenching portrayal of what it’s like to be a Broadway ‘gypsy’ — schlepping from audition to audition, show to show, maintaining optimism in the Read More →