Put a Little Drama in your Life
Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/9/20 RUN DATES: First Friday of the month VENUE: Amplified Ale Works, downtown San Diego Shots a la Shakespeare Read the full review here. Read More →
Aired on KSDS-FM on 1/17/20 RUN DATES: 1/8/20 - 2/2/20 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre For Caithleen, time is a chord: many notes appearing at the same time — past, present and future — all real, all alive, and all played at once. An adorable 20-year-old tour guide in Dublin, she’s re-tracing the route Leopold Bloom took through the city, as described by James Joyce in his 1922 magnum opus, “Ulysses.” The day of that fictional walk is celebrated Read More →
Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 1/17/20 RUN DATES: 1/9/20 - 2/2/20 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre In a fictional comic book called Quasar, the zombies tell horror stories. To these monsters, the humans are the monsters. And so it is, more or less, in Stephen Karam’s award-winning 2015 one-act, “The Humans.” It’s Thanksgiving, and the Blake family has come together to celebrate in daughter Brigid’s creepy, crumbling, part-subterranean duplex in New York’s Chinatown, where she and her boyfriend, Rich, have just Read More →
Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 6/25/18 RUN DATES: 6/15/18 - 7/29/18 VENUE: Ahmanson Theatre, L.A. The ghost of Willy Loman hovers over “The Humans,” the Tony Award-winning Best Play of 2016, now running at the Ahmanson Theatre in L.A. Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” bemoaned the demise of The American Dream. But nearly 70 years later, we still cling to that notion of just deserts, of getting what you’ve hoped and strived for. Work hard and you’ll be rewarded. Read More →
Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/1/15 RUN DATES: 2/1/15- 3/1/15 VENUE: The Old Globe It sounded like it was gonna be silly (and it was). Madcap (yup). Goofy and over-the-top (check, check). And yet, in spite of all this (not my favorite elements in a play or musical), “Murder for Two” is simply irresistible. It’s more than a little reminiscent of two other musicals recently seen in San Diego: “Gunmetal Blues,” currently running at North Coast Repertory Theatre, where two Read More →
Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/30/19 Perusing my “Best of the Year” lists over the 2010s, I noticed first how the local theater landscape had changed. Some of the most powerful and memorable productions came from theater companies that are no longer with us — most notably, tiny, spiky/spunky, risk-taking ion theater and the aptly-named Intrepid Theatre (still alive, but focused now on outreach and education, rather than producing new work). Over the course of the decade, we also Read More →
“San Diego is a hotbed of theater. Every year, I see 200-250 productions. This is fertile ground for new work. In addition to the prodigious local talent, theatermakers from around the country come here to premiere their latest creations. San Diego sends more shows to Broadway than nearly any other city in the U.S.”
-Pat Launer