“curtain Calls” Doubt
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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 11/03/06 The great and near-great are steppin’ out; It’s a Crucible for them, no Doubt, That Hedda Gabler and M. Chopin, Are each a Rocky Horror fan. Read More →
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“a Tale Of Two Cities” At The San Diego Repertory Theatre
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KPBS AIRDATE: November 21, 1991 I don't know if this is a far, far better thing than Ron Campbell has ever done, but I'm sure it's far, far more characters than he's ever played at one time. Almost twenty, to be sort of precise. And if the evening were a little shorter, it'd definitely be the best of Read More →
“curtain Calls” We’re In Some State
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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 02/25/04 I skipped through the theater week Merrily, From Richard to Eurydice, From Gypsy music to local dance, The State of our Arts spans a broad expanse. The 2nd annual State of the Arts and Culture presentation drew a Read More →
“curtain Calls” #206
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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 08/17/07 A reading of Lear may be too hot to handle; It’d take all the magic of Bell , Book and Candle. That Ole Black Magic Had Me in its Read More →
“alice In Concert” At The Lamb’s Players Theatre
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KPBS AIRDATE: June 30, 1993 All right, class. It's time for a review. What are the four branches of arithmetic? Good, you remembered: Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision. Well, that's what the Mock Turtle says in "Alice in Wonderland," anyway. No matter what form you hear them in -- Read More →
“faith, Hope And Charity: A Little Dance Of Death In Five Acts” By B-attitudes At The Sixth Avenue Playhouse
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KPBS AIRDATE: April 23, 1992 There's irony in the air. Consider the life and the work of Austrian playwright Odön von Horváth. An important and popular dramatist in the Weimar era, his plays were banned by the Nazis and were virtually buried for forty years. This B-Attitudes production marks the American professional Read More →
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