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“WHAT HAPPENS NEXT” La Jolla Playhouse WoW Production

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 4/22/18 RUN DATES: 4/19/18 - 4/29/18 VENUE: La Jolla Playhouse site-specific WoW production An admonition courses through “What Happens Next,” a world premiere produced by the La Jolla Playhouse, in association with L.A.’s Cornerstone Theatre: “If you haven’t been there, you can’t understand.” The ‘there’ is war – specifically, in this case, the recent (ongoing) wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Award-winning playwright Naomi Iizuka, head of the MFA Playwriting program at UC San Diego, was commissioned by Read More →

“THE SQUIRRELS” at the La Jolla Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 6/15/18 RUN DATES: 6/5/18 - 7/8/18 VENUE: La Jolla Playhouse Portrait of America as Nuthouse. “The Squirrels,” the latest creation from the wild (and wacky) mind of playwright Rob Askins (Tony-nominee and Obie Award-winner for the hilariously wicked “Hand to God”) is having its world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse. And like the paterfamilias at the end of the 90 minute piece, it’s uncontrollably overstuffed. “I’m up for anything to de-stabilize the audience’s experience,” Askins has Read More →

“HOLMES & WATSON at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 11/2/18 RUN DATES: 10/17/18 - 11/18/18 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre NOT very elementary, Dr. Watson! What starts out as a fairly straightforward mystery in Jeffrey Hatcher’s “Holmes & Watson,” takes so many unexpected twists and neck-snapping turns that your head is positively spinning by the end. And that seems just right for a Sherlock story, doesn’t it? North Coast Repertory Theatre snagged the West coast premiere of this endlessly clever, crafty cliffhanger, and has made a Read More →

“YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN” at San Diego Musical Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/6/18 RUN DATES: 9/28/18 - 10/28/18 VENUE: San Diego Musical Theatre The raunch factor is high. The laugh factor aims high – or should I say it aims low, below-the-Borscht Belt low. Although it premiered in 2007, the show is still called “The New Mel Brooks Musical: Young Frankenstein.” San Diego Musical Theatre is doing everything possible to make it feel new again. Fans of the source material -- the classic 1974 Mel Brooks film -- Read More →

“MAMMA MIA” at Welk Resort Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 10/12/19 RUN DATES: 9/7/18 - 2/24/19 VENUE: Welk Resort Theatre Mamma Mia! Here we go again! This past summer, Moonlight Stage Productions did a marvelous job with the ABBA jukebox musical, “Mamma Mia!”. Now, the Welk Resort Theatre is in the midst of a whopping 6-month run in Escondido. Lots of steady jobs for lots of local actors! The production features a highly talented cast of 19. The singing is terrific and the dramatic interactions are Read More →

“DR. GLAS” streaming from North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 7/24/21 RUN DATES: 7/21/21 - 8/15/21 VENUE: Streaming from North Coast Repertory Theatre The Hippocratic Oath (“First, do no harm”) takes a turn toward the Hypocritic in the hands of Dr. Glas. Based on an acclaimed, but at first controversial Swedish novel (1905, by Hjalmar Söderberg), “Dr. Glas,” a new stage adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher, presents the titular 19th century medic as a supercilious prig who longs for love (he only had it once, fleetingly, Read More →