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“KING CHARLES III” at Coronado Playhouse

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 3/30/18 RUN DATES: 3/23/18 - 4/22/18 VENUE: Coronado Playhouse I’m not sure how the royal family feels about “King Charles III,” but Shakespeare would love it. Borrowing from the notorious borrower, playwright Mike Bartlett gleefully steals and subverts characters, plot-points and lines from the Bard’s plays. His drama-with-comic-moments is written in iambic pentameter. But instead of re-creating history, Bartlett foretells it. In the not-too-distant future, Queen Elizabeth passes on, and her son, Prince Charles, is ready to Read More →

“the Full Monty” San Diego Musical Theatre At The Birch North Park Theatre

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KPBS Airdate: 05/11/07 If you think it’s gutsy to go ‘The Full Monty,’ it takes even more cojones to start up a brand new musical theater company. And this week, we get exposed to both at once. The new company is called the San Diego Musical Theatre, and it’s helmed by executive directors Gary and Erin Lewis -- Read More →

“the Lady Cries Murder” At The Ruse (marquis Public Theatre)

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KPBS AIRDATE: ??? Welcome to Simile Land. That's the place where writer Raymond Chandler sort of lived, when he wasn't in La Jolla, where he spent his last 13 years. His purple prose and hard-boiled plots have enchanted certain readers and moviegoers for years. Why, friends of the La Jolla Library just finished their third International Imitation Raymond Chandler Read More →

“4000 MILES” at ion theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 9/25/16 RUN DATES: 9/17/16 - 10/15/16 VENUE: ion theatre A narcissistic young man drops into his grandmother’s Greenwich Village apartment at 3am, with backpacks and bicycle in tow. On his long-planned cross-country cycling trip, he had a traumatic experience. Then, when he arrives in New York, his girlfriend breaks up with him. He’s too insular and self-involved to talk about any of it, or to notice that his grandma is having trouble with her hearing, Read More →

‘THE SANTALAND DIARIES” at the OB Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/12/16 RUN DATES: 11/26/16 - 12/18/16 VENUE: The OB Playhouse How about a holiday nosh of irony and crumpet… dripping with sarcasm? Yes, that wily, smiley, acerbic Elf, Crumpet, is back – telling his tales of Christmas woe in “The Santaland Diaries,” the David Sedaris monologue that remains one of the most popular broadcasts ever aired and re-aired on NPR. James P. Darvas is perfect in the green-velvet role. He can effect the same whiney quality Read More →

“TROLLEY DANCES” San Diego Dance Theater

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/3/16 RUN DATES: 9/24/16 - 10/2/16 VENUE: San Diego Dance Theater “Trolley Dances” is a local treasure. For 18 years, Jean Isaacs and her San Diego Dance Theater (SDDT) has been taking audiences all over the city (wherever the trolley runs): out to SDSU, down to the border, in midtown and East Village. Viewers watch short dance performances at various locations at or near the trolley station, they hop on again, go a few Read More →