Reviews

“curtain Calls” #193

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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 05/18/07 Talking With BODIES, while cleverly rhyming, Why, Beckett, you know, it’s Al l in the Timing. LINGUISTIC ACROBATICS THE SHOW: Al l in the Timing, Read More →

“i Hate Hamlet” At North Coast Repertory Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE:   APRIL 27, 1994 Not only does it have a provocative title, "I Hate Hamlet," a play first produced in 1991, already has a place in theater history.    During its brief but legendary Broadway run, in the middle of a duel scene, one actor actually tried to injure another, while he ad-libbed a variety of denigrating comments about the younger man's thespian prowess Read More →

“greetings” At The North Coast Repertory Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: December 2, 1992 Season's "Greetings"!   The holiday theater season has officially begun. It's been launched with a laugh at North Coast Repertory Theatre, with "Greetings!" by Tom Dudzick, a new playwright with a great sense of humor. His plot-line is silly and predictable and his play is old-fashioned, Read More →

“curtain Calls” Rotten To The Core…

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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 09/29/04 It was a week of dramatic hopes and fears And three -- just count 'em! -- world premieres! Scoundrels and Brooklyn Boys satisfy. Theater can surely feel Cool as We Fly! Give them what they want. That's the opening number Read More →

“jane Eyre” At La Jolla Playhouse

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KPBS AIRDATE:   AUGUST 18, 1999 MUSIC: “Opening” Ahh, the moors… those lonely, dark, desolate places, rife with windswept imaginings and ripe for ill-fated romance. The perfect setting for the kind of Gothic melodrama favored by the Brontë sisters, Emily and Charlotte. Heathcliffe and Catherine of Wuthering Heights.   Jane and Edward of Thornfield Hall.   Read More →

“DISTRICT MERCHANTS” at South Coast Repertory

“DISTRICT MERCHANTS” at South Coast Repertory

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 10/21/16 RUN DATES: 10/2/16 - 10/23/16 VENUE: South Coast Repertory   It’s always been a ‘problem play,’ even though Shakespeare’s First Folio lists it as a comedy. But Aaron Posner, lifelong adapter and provocateur, isn’t intimidated by “The Merchant of Venice.” In his version, “District Merchants,” the Jews aren’t the only battered, beleaguered minority. Posner sets his drama in post-Civil War Washington, D.C. during Reconstruction. This merchant, Antoine, is a prosperous, free-born black man. His friend, Read More →