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“Blueprints To Freedom” – La Jolla Playhouse

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PAT LAUNER - TIMES OF SAN DIEGO.COM 9/29/15 “BLUEPRINTS” TELLS FORGOTTEN CIVIL RIGHTS STORY AT LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE One part inspiration, one part indignation. “Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin” is about the lead-up to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The brilliant ‘prophet for social change,’ he who taught Martin Luther King non-violence, served as Deputy Director and Chief organizer/architect of the March, the biggest protest ever seen in America to date. But more Read More →

“MATILDA THE MUSICAL” at the Civic Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/2/17 RUN DATES: 1/31/17 - 2/5/17 VENUE: Civic Theatre “Sometimes you have to be a little big naughty,” sings the precocious, bookish 5 year old. At first, Matilda seems too good (and smart) to be true. But she is an inveterate prankster, who acts out against her neglecting, narcissistic parents (bleaching her father’s hair and gluing his hat to his head, for example). Once she realizes that she has telekinetic abilities (she can make Read More →

“THE DROWSY CHAPERONE” at San Diego State University

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/7/16 RUN DATES: 3/4/16 -3/13/16 VENUE: San Diego State University As the central character, the musical-theater-addicted Man in Chair, explains it, “In a musical, when you have a problem, you sing and dance, which is so much more interesting than whining about it. Musicals take you into another world; they help you escape the dreary horrors of the real world.” I can’t think of a show that more thoroughly, entertainingly delivers on that description than Read More →

“GOD OF CARNAGE” at New Village Arts

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 11/4/16 RUN DATES: 10/14/16 - 11/13/16 VENUE: New Village Arts Kids are little sponges, right? From birth, they soak up whatever oozes or spews from their parents. Never was this so graphically demonstrated as in Yazmina Reza’s 2008 dramedy, “God of Carnage.” The first salvo is fired in a playground brawl, where one 11 year-old hits another with a stick, knocking out some teeth and injuring his pride. But the real carnage comes when the Read More →

“OUR GREAT TCHAIKOVSKY” at the San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 1/21/17 RUN DATES: 1/12/17 - 2/12/17 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre Everyone likes to get a peek behind the scenes. In “Our Great Tchaikovsky,” Hershey Felder offers a glimpse into how he does what he does: create multi-faceted musical biographies that capture the essence of composers like Beethoven, Chopin, Gershwin and Bernstein. First, he tells us, in his latest, uncharacteristically personal piece, he picks a piece of seminal, representative music. Then, he delves deeply Read More →

“THE OLD MAN AND THE OLD MOON” at The Old Globe

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 6/9/17 RUN DATES: 5/13/17 - 6/18/17 VENUE: The Old Globe A long time ago, the moon was always full. An Old Man kept it that way, filling it with liquid light. But it sprang a leak, and light began to seep out. And that’s why we have lunar cycles. This is the fairy tale, “The Old Man and the Old Moon” (reminiscent of a Kipling “Just So” story), told by the PigPen Theatre Company, currently Read More →