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“THE TRUMP CARD” at the La Jolla Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/5/16 RUN DATES: 10/4/16 - 10/9/16 VENUE: La Jolla Playhouse Mike Daisey is not a happy camper. He rants, he rages, he curses (a lot). But the acclaimed monologist doesn’t just lament the sorry state of the Presidential campaign. He’s hellbent on connecting all the historical dots that got us to this terrifying place. He can be as funny as he is angry. But he implicates all of us, for how far “The Orange Read More →

“THE ELEPHANT MAN” at Backyard Renaissance and Oceanside Theatre Company

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 4/10/16 RUN DATES: 4/8/16 - 4/24/16 VENUE: Backyard Renaissance and Oceanside Theatre Company There are dramatic tragedies, and there are real-life tragic stories. Joseph “John” Merrick had one of the latter kind – a heartbreaking tale of neglect, abuse, pain and abandonment. His mother died when he was young and, rejected by his father, Merrick wound up in one of those notorious Victorian London workhouses. Possessed of some horrific deformity (still unidentified) that rendered him Read More →

“curtain Calls” Sibling Revelry

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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 02/23/07 How often does one get the chance To see Shakespeare, Chekhov, opera and dance, A musical Bible, two brand new plays: All of this in just six days! THE SHOW: Three Sisters, the 1901 Chekhov masterwork, translated/adapted Read More →

“curtain Calls” The Wiz

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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 10/13/06 The Merry Widow , Miss Witherspoon, had plenty of cause for alarm: She met The Wiz while Movin’ Out of her sludge-and Pig-filled Farm. THE BUMPY BRICK ROAD Read More →

“WILD GOOSE DREAMS” at the La Jolla Playhouse

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 9/15/17 RUN DATES: 9/5/17 - 10/1/17 VENUE: La Jolla Playhouse Metaphor, fantasy and hard, cold reality collide in “Wild Goose Dreams” by Hansol Jung, a spectacular world premiere co-produced by the La Jolla Playhouse and New York’s Public Theater. Set in Seoul, South Korea, the play begins with a fairy tale, whose moral is: If you have a choice between family and flying to Paradise … Fly! Birds, flight and illusion are intrinsic to this magical tale. Read More →

“MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING” at The Old Globe

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 8/31/18 RUN DATES: 8/12/18 - 9/16/18 VENUE: The Old Globe That wittiest, quippiest of couples is at it again. Beatrice and Benedick are back at The Old Globe for the 13th time. In Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” one of the greatest romantic comedies ever written, the linguistically acrobatic antagonists repeatedly swear they can’t stand each other -- until they’re tricked into embracing mutual devotion and marriage. In a parallel love story, young Claudio is more malevolently Read More →