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“HAMLET” at The Old Globe

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/25/17 RUN DATES: 8/6/17 - 9/22/17 VENUE: The Old Globe For older men, the dramatic Everest is King Lear. For younger men, it’s Hamlet. Old Globe artistic director Barry Edelstein has chosen Grantham Coleman, an L.A.-based Juilliard graduate with stage and TV credits but minimal Shakespeare experience (“As You Like It” at the Public Theatre, “Romeo and Juliet” at the Actors Theatre of Louisville), to assay the tortured Danish Prince. The gamble paid off. Grantham Read More →

“IRONBOUND” at Moxie Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 9/29/17 RUN DATES: 9/17/17 - 10/22/17 VENUE: Moxie Theatre In Martyna Majok’s drama, “Ironbound” is both a location and a condition. It’s a multi-ethnic, working-class New Jersey neighborhood, and “Ironbound” also describes the predicament of the central character, Darja, who is shackled by poverty and circumstance. One half-step from homeless, she holes up at a seedy bus stop, boxed in by a chain-link fence. The play hopscotches in time, between a hopeful, pregnant Darja and her Read More →

“A CHRISTMAS STORY” at Pickwick Players

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/7/17 RUN DATES: 12/1/17 - 12/17/17 VENUE: Pickwick Players, Santee It’s really cool when small theaters premiere a show before any of the Big Boys. Backyard Renaissance snagged the world premiere of the musical, “Tarrytown.” Coronado just closed the musical “Fly By Night,” and this spring, they’ll open the acclaimed speculative history, “King Charles III.” And now, Pickwick Players is presenting the musical version of the beloved 1983 movie classic, “A Christmas Story,” based on the Read More →

“THE MOORS” at Diversionary Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 11/20/17 RUN DATES: 11/9/17 - 12/10/17 VENUE: Diversionary Theatre You can practically hear Heathcliff and Cathy calling to each other across the desolate, windswept landscape. What with the ominous music, the funereal wood and wine-colored furnishings, and the fog wafting in, you get the creepy feeling that things will not end well. And of course, they don’t. “The Moors,” by Jen Silverman, is a macabre satire, conjuring (and Americanizing) those Victorian literary oddballs, the Brontës: Charlotte, Read More →

“OUTSIDE MULLINGAR” at Scripps Ranch Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/12/18 RUN DATES: 1/190/18 - 2/18/18 VENUE: Scripps Ranch Theatre There’s something touching and fulfilling about watching a reluctant lover come around and a lopsided love re-balance. In the rural Irish countryside (2010-2015), Anthony (Stephen Schmitz) doesn’t have a clue that love is in the air. He’s too busy keeping his head in the clouds and ducking away from interpersonal contact altogether. Rosemary (Vanessa Dinning), whose family owns the adjacent farm, can’t think of anything but Read More →

“AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS” at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 1/26/18 RUN DATES: 1/10/18 - 2/4/18 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre These days, it’s possible to circle the planet in 67 hours. So going “Around the World in 80 Days,” as Jules Verne imagined in his 1872 novel, seems a bit quaint. The book was a sly but affectionate satire of British manners, captured in the 1956 movie and various stage versions. Though slapstick comedy never seems to go out of style, ethnic humor and racial or cultural Read More →