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“THE LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS” at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 5/27/17 RUN DATES: 9/6/17 - 10/8/17 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre Phil Johnson is up to his old tricks: his bag of comic tricks, that is. Cast with a trio of terrific women, the relentless funnyman and comedic Everyman is the guy in the midst of a midlife crisis in Neil Simon’s 1969 comedy, “Last of the Red Hot Lovers,” now playing at North Coast Repertory Theatre. At 47, Barney is starting to face down mortality. Read More →

“into The Woods” At Starlight Musical Theatre / “gypsy” At Moonlight Amphitheatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: JULY 14, 1999 (MUSIC: “Everything’s Coming up Roses”) Seems like everything’s coming up Sondheim. Under the moon or under the stars, you can hear the work of the brilliant composer/lyricist, Stephen Sondheim. You can virtually trace his evolution. Moonlight Amphitheater is presenting “Gypsy” and Starlight Musical Theatre is taking us “Into the Read More →

HUANG YI AND KUKA

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RUN DATES: 10/15/15 VENUE: UC SAN DIEGO, ARTPOWER If your taste runs to performance that’s outside the box, this has been a bountiful week in San Diego – particularly on the UCSD campus. Last weekend was the 2nd La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls (WoW) Festival, a 3-day cornucopia of 22 intriguing, often exciting, site-specific events. Many pieces were outdoors and immersive, engaging or interacting with the audience. And then, on September 14, along came “Huang Yi & Kuka,” courtesy Read More →

“CHAPATTI” – North Coast Repertory Theatre

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PAT LAUNER, CENTER STAGE ON KSDS-FM RUN DATES: 10/21/15 - 11/15/15 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre “Chapatti” is an Irish play with an Indian name – and that’s not the only unusual part of it. Galway-based writer Christian O’Reilly presents two senior citizens – both lonely, unhappy and utterly devoted to their pets. He’s got a dog; she has 19 cats. They meet-cute at the veterinarian’s. From the get-go, you know how it will end. Yet O’Reilly inserts several unpredicted Read More →

“le Petomane” At The La Jolla Playhouse

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KPBS AIRDATE: June 25, 1992 The puns, like the bowling pins being juggled, fly fast and furious. "Le Petomane" is billed as "a comedy of airs," and it has to do with Joseph Pujol, a baker cum cabaret performer in turn-of-the-century Paris , who earned fame, fortune and, now, a measure of immortality, by creative wind-passing. Read More →

“VOYEURS DE VENUS” at Moxie Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 8/24/18 RUN DATES: 8/12/18 - 9/2/18 VENUE: Moxie Theatre “Race is what I do,” African American playwright Lydia Diamond has said. “Race and gender, sexuality and class.” Check, check and check. These issues reverberate throughout her 2002 play, “Voyeurs de Venus,” in addition to a heap of other subjects, including colonialism, victimization, objectification, exploitation and conciliation, punctuated by sex, gore, dance, nudity and a minstrel show. The play, getting an excellent production at Moxie Theatre, under the Read More →