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“THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE” at San Diego Opera

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/18/17 RUN DATES: 10/14/17 - 10/22/17 VENUE: San Diego Opera Sentimental swashbucklers. Bumbling Bobbies. A bombastic but lily-livered Major General. And a slavish devotion to Duty and Queen. Welcome to the satirical, society-skewering world of librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan, those masters of absurd Victorian comic opera, and their wacky “Pirates of Penzance,” wildly popular since its 1879 debut. It’s veddy, veddy British in its sensibilities, and very very silly in its storyline. Read More →

“BUILDING THE WALL” at Point Loma Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 1/22/18 RUN DATES: 1/19/18 - 2/4/18 VENUE: Point Loma Playhouse Theater doesn’t typically lend offer an immediate response to political events. But Robert Schenkkan, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright/screenwriter (“The Kentucky Cycle,” “All the Way,” as well as the film “Hacksaw Ridge”), was so agitated by the 2016 election that he wrote a play in what he called a “week-long white-hot fury.” And impressively, a tiny local theater, Point Loma Playhouse, is the first Read More →

“SWEAT” at the San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 5/10/19 RUN DATES: 4/18/19 - 5/12/19 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre The American Dream is slipping away. Once upon a time, folks believed that if you worked hard, you’d earn a comfortable, middle-class life. But the middle class is eroding, and nowhere is that more evident than Reading, Pennsylvania. In 2011, the year that city was named the poorest in the country, playwright Lynn Nottage started making trips there from New York, interviewing residents to Read More →

“FOREVER PLAID” at the Welk Resort Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 8/3/18 RUN DATES: 7/14/18 - 8/26/18 VENUE: Welk Resort Theatre Funny thing about plaid. Every time the cross-stripe fabric waltzes out of style for a while, it somehow sashays back in. Same goes for “Forever Plaid.” The 1989 musical revue keeps re-surfacing, with its wacky costumes, geeky quartet and goofy premise. Now the tale of four nerds is back, a nostalgic reminder of the close-harmony guy-groups of the 1950s. The Plaids were killed enroute to their first professional Read More →

FEATURE: THEATER FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/5/19 There’s often a kind of no-man’s-land between youth performance companies and professional theater. After kids graduate or age-out of youth theaters, they may still be too young for full-fledged professional productions. Actor/singer/director/fight choreographer Jordan Miller is determined to remedy the situation and fill the gap. He and his wife, actor/singer Jessica Couto, have founded a new, La Mesa-based company, Theater for Young Professionals (TYP). Miller has been seen on many local stages, most frequently Read More →

FALL THEATER PREVIEW 2019

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 8/9/19 COVERING DATES: 9/19/19 - 12/19/19 Most people think summer is the time for musicals – warm nights, light fare. But San Diego is a hotbed of musical theater year-round. And this fall offers a veritable cornucopia of musical options. In fact, in September alone, there are no fewer than nine high-profile musical productions worthy of your early autumnal planning. Two world premieres come courtesy of our two Tony Award-winning regional theaters. At The Old Globe, Read More →