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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 →

“HANDBAGGED” at Moxie Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/27/19 RUN DATES: 10/19/19 - 11/17/19 VENUE: Moxie Theatre There are still many U.S. citizens who cannot conceive of a woman at the helm of the country. But there was a time in the U.K. (1979-1990) when there were two females at the top: Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. They were, in many ways, antithetical: in temperament, background, personality and politics. It was rumored that the two women, born six months apart, had Read More →

“THE LAST FIVE YEARS” at Cygnet Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/29/19 RUN DATES: 10/23/19 - 11/17/19 VENUE: Cygnet Theatre The joy and pain of love: its rapturous beginning and its heartbreaking end. True love is all-consuming, just like devotion to an artform; both require complete commitment. Are they compatible? Only if you’re lucky—and equally committed and attentive to both. It isn’t easy. The real-life evolution and dissolution of the marriage of brilliant, Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown inspired him to write “The Last Five Years” Read More →

“RING ROUND THE MOON” at Lamb’s Players Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 11/1/19 RUN DATES: 10/11/19 - 11/17/19 VENUE: Lamb's Players Theatre Meet Hugo and Frédéric, identical twin brothers. By the end of “Ring Round the Moon,” the cold, calculating manipulator discovers that he has a heart, and the romantic milquetoast finds his spine. After many incidents, hurdles and machinations, both wind up perfectly matched. The play is an English adaptation, written by Christopher Fry in 1950, of a 1947 French satire by Jean Anouilh. It’s the Read More →

“HEATHERS THE MUSICAL” at OB Playhouse

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 11/15/19 RUN DATES: 10/18/19 - 11/17/19 VENUE: OB Playhouse Mean Girls meet The Wild One— with a high school grudge and a gun. And a bomb. Cue the choreography. “Heathers the Musical” took a dark, off-the-wall 1988 cult film and made it even darker --- and funnier. Only “Carrie the Musical” has more vengeful high school deaths. But there are more laughs here amid the blood and mayhem, thanks to the quirkiness of the misfits and Read More →

“THE ADDAMS FAMILY” at the Welk Resort Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 10/18/19 RUN DATES: 9/6/19 - 10/11/19 VENUE: Welk Resort Theatre A marriage hinges on determining whose relatives are crazier. Oh, the would-be bride shooting an apple, blindfolded, off her beloved’s head — with a crossbow. Welcome to “The Addams Family” musical. You won’t leave the Welk Resort Theatre thinking deep thoughts. But you will have a helluva time. The very funny production, inventively directed by Larry Raben and choreographed by Karl Warden, is a sheer delight. The cast Read More →