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“TURNING OFF THE MORNING NEWS” at OnStage Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 5/28/22 RUN DATES: 5/27/22 - 6/19/22 VENUE: OnStage Playhouse Durang is difficult. Especially when he’s in his unhinged, absurdist mode, and his black humor is focused on deadly serious subjects. The playwright Christopher Durang has been poking our society in the eye for decades. He’s spent his life gleefully aiming poison darts at sacred cows and significant societal stressors: religion, politics, suburbia, family dysfunction, domestic abuse, mental illness and excessive use of weapons. Especially this week, Read More →

Theatre Review: “pericles” At The Globe Theatre

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Published in Gay and Lesbian Times September 19, 2002 **HIGHLY RECOMMENDED/BEST BET Some call it Shakespeare's "Odyssey." In "Pericles," the title character spends a long time at sea, journeying to many lands, does battle, is shipwrecked, finds and loses a wife, has and leaves a daughter, grieves inconsolably and winds up back at home. Like Odysseus, Pericles is a man cast adrift in the Read More →

Get Out Your Cloak And Dagger: “Accomplice: San Diego” Is Here!

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PAT LAUNER FOR: SAN DIEGO JEWISH JOURNAL APRIL 2013 The La Jolla Playhouse hosts another site-specific charmer http://sdjewishjournal.com/site/4944/get-out-your-cloak-and-dagger/ Shhhhh . It’s a secret. Nobody knows where it starts or who’s involved. But you’re welcome to be a co-conspirator. Read More →

Anthony Dean Griffey

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ANTHONY DEAN GRIFFEY PROMO: SDNN theater critic Pat Launer sat down with tenor Anthony Dean Griffey, between rehearsals for the Benjamin Britten opera, “Peter Grimes.” He talks about how he approaches a complex acting/singing role like the title character, and how he takes his mind off the intensive preparation by watching cartoons. Griffey reprises his acclaimed Metropolitan Opera performance at the San Diego Opera, April Read More →

Read Reviews Of: “sammy,” “creditors,” “man From Nebraska ,” “the Savannah Disputation” And “anything Goes”

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Pat Launer on San Diego Theater By Pat Launer , SDNN Thursday, October 1, 2009 The Candy Man Cometh THE SHOW: “Sammy,” a world premiere musical, at the Old Globe Sammy Davis, Jr., “a 5-foot-two typhoon,” spent 60 of his 64 years in Read More →

Reviews Of “the Whipping Man ,“ “king John,” “the Hot L Baltimore ,” “inner Views” … And Local Theater News

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Pat Launer on San Diego Theater By Pat Launer , SDNN May 20, 2010 http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2010-05-19/things-to-do/theater-things-to-do/whipping-man-a-searing-civil-war-drama-at-old-globe http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2010-05-20/things-to-do/theater-things-to-do/hot-l-baltimore-serves-up-slice-of-life-in-university-heights http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2010-05-19/things-to-do/theater-things-to-do/king-john-rules-well-at-intrepid-shakespeare-company FOR THURSDAY, 5/20 Uncivil War THE PLAY: “The Whipping Man Read More →