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“RAGTIME” at Moonlight Stage Productions

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/20/22 RUN DATES: 8/17/22 - 9/3/22 VENUE: Moonlight Stage Productions Three distinct communities, living in their own separate bubbles: The upper-crust Whites. The middle-class and underprivileged Blacks. The impoverished immigrants. Inevitably, they are forced to interact — for good or for ill. That’s the story of “Ragtime,” a brilliant historical novel by E.L. Doctorow, 1975; a misguided, miscast movie (1981); and a magnificent musical (1996). It’s also the story of America. Though the action is set in New Read More →

“THE PLEASURE TRIALS” at Moxie Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/23/22 RUN DATES: 8/20/22 - 9/11/22 VENUE: Moxie Theatre It’s been more than 50 years since the initial publication of “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” a tome of feminist writings suggesting that women take matters into our own hands, so to speak, and explore our sexuality. It was translated into 33 languages. Four million copies were sold. But times have changed. These days, everyone’s looking for a pharmaceutical cure for all our ills. Viagra and its cousins have Read More →

“AS YOU LIKE IT” at New Fortune Theatre Company

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/9/22 RUN DATES: 8/3/22 - 8/29/22 VENUE: New Fortune Theatre Company Oh, to have an Arden to escape to! A magical forest where you can be who you want to be and become who you’d like to be, reconnect with estranged family, and find true love. It’s always felicitous when a play with an outdoor setting is performed outdoors (another Shakespearean forest is currently being featured at The Old Globe for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”). Now, Read More →

“CABARET” at Cygnet Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/2/22 RUN DATES: 7/13/22 - 9/18/22 VENUE: Cygnet Theatre The brilliant, searing, 8-time Tony Award-winning Kander and Ebb musical, “Cabaret” (with book by Joe Masteroff) is set in a decadent, declining Berlin, 1931, just as the Nazis are seizing power and taking control. After the show’s rapturous premiere in 1966, every subsequent production, beginning, I think, with the1998 Broadway revival starring Alan Cumming as the Emcee at the seamy Kit Kat Klub, the show became Read More →

“THE REMARKABLE MISTER HOLMES” at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 7/29/22 RUN DATES: 7/20/22 - 8/28/22 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre What makes a successful Sherlock Holmes mystery? One (or multiple) crimes, often murder. Numerous, sometimes odious. suspects. Unexpected complications, twists and turns, blind alleys and red herrings. And of course, The Man himself (as created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in four novels and 56 short stories, published from 1887-1927): fiercely intelligent, with extraordinary powers of observation, forensic figuring and deductive reasoning. Arrogant and supercilious. Read More →

“HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES” at La Jolla Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/8/22 RUN DATES: 7/26/22 - 8/21/22 VENUE: La Jolla Playhouse Over the years, some people have wondered what normal, everyday citizens in Nazi strongholds were doing and thinking during the Holocaust. Especially when they were only miles, sometimes yards, away from the horrors of the concentration camps, where millions of people — Jews, homosexuals and Roma, in particular — were being obliterated, exterminated. Were they oblivious? Unconcerned? In denial? Complacent? Complicit? Decades ago, my sister was Read More →