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“fob” Asian American Repertory Theatre At Mmpac / Together In The Fires Of Delight” Malashock Dance At The Old Globe

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KPBS AIRDATE: JANUARY 26, 2001 The year is getting off to a dramatic start. We've got a new theater space, and a continuing coalescence of performing arts. Asian American Repertory Theatre has just inaugurated its new home, the Hiroshi McDonald Mori Performing Arts Center, and Malashock Dance resumes its commitment to blurring the lines between art forms by melding movement, music and text. Read More →

Theatre Review: “shear Madness” At The Theatre In Old Town

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KPBS AIRDATE: JANUARY 19, 2001 As I said to my hairstylist when she made my hair too too electric blue, 'Tone it down!' And that's my advice for the cast of "Shear Madness." We are not deaf; we are not idiots. Lower the volume and trust the audience. It's a small piece in a small space. The interactive mystery/comedy is considered the longest-running Read More →

Theatre Review: Comedysportz

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KPBS AIRDATE: JANUARY 12, 2001 Okay, when I count to 3, you have to be funny. Ready? One, two… No, let me make it a little harder. I'll give you a topic to be funny on…… All right, go! Comic improvisation isn't as easy as it sounds. You can't just be humorous on demand. You have to be quick-witted, Read More →

“forever Plaid” …. Backstage At Aubergine

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KPBS AIRDATE: JANUARY 5, 2001 If you're mad for Plaid, you'll be glad, not sad, that the fad is iron-clad (and that's no dimpled chad!). The Plaids may change faces or spaces, but now in their fifth year in San Diego, they just may, as the title says, last forever. After an incredible run at the Theatre in Old Town, the checkered musical perennial, "Forever Plaid," has recently Read More →

“the Most Fabulous Story Ever Told” At Diversionary Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: DECEMBER 29, 2000 In the beginning, there was a void. The world was a straight and narrow place, and darkness was upon the crooked landscape. And then, creative artists saw the light. And gay plays rained down upon us for what seemed like forty years. A veritable flood of homoerotic plays and performance art. Après Paul Rudnick, the deluge. Actually, there was a torrent Read More →

“festival Of Christmas” At Lamb’s Players Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: DECEMBER 22, 2000 Cue the Christmas bells. (SOUND) Cue the cowbell (SOUND). Cue the cow (SOUND). Another Christmas cash-cow sidles into the already crowded holiday field. Look! There's the Sugarplum Fairy, and Ebenezer Scrooge, and over there's the Grinch. And, demanding a significant piece of its own commercial real estate, Lamb's annual bovine contender, "Festival of Christmas." So what's wrong with Read More →