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“BEN BUTLER” at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 11/2/21 RUN DATES: 10/20/21 - 11/21/21 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre Talk about your controversial characters. The real-life historical figure who inspired the 2014 play, “Ben Butler” (Benjamin Franklin Butler, 1818-1893; note that his brother’s name was Andrew Jackson Butler), was a sometime Democrat who voted 57 times to make Jefferson Davis President (and subsequently ran for the office himself). A Major General in the Union Army who had no military training. A successful trial Read More →

“BABETTE’S FEAST” at Lamb’s Players Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 1/21/20 RUN DATES: 1/17/19 - 2/16/20 VENUE: Lamb's Players Theatre As perfect a pairing as brie and baguettes: Lamb’s Players Theatre and “Babette’s Feast.” In 2018, the Academy Award-winning 1987 Danish film based on a short story by Isak Dinesen (pen name of Baroness Karen Blixen) was adapted as a stage play. Conceived and developed by playwright/actor Abigail Killeen and written by Rose Courtney, the play hews closer to the original story, first published in the Read More →

“JQA” streaming from San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/20/20 RUN DATES: 10/16/20 - 11/29/20 VENUE: Streaming from the San Diego Repertory Theatre You’re undoubtedly familiar with several Presidential triple-initials (they pop up in crossword puzzles all the time): FDR, JFK, LBJ. But JQA? Not so much. John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) was the 6th President of the United States. He was the son of Founding Father John Adams, and served nine terms in Congress, as well as being, at various times in his career, U.S. Read More →

“TRYING” streaming from North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/29/21 RUN DATES: 3/25/21 - 4/25/21 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre The title can be interpreted in at least three ways. One of the play’s two characters, a renowned judge, has been trying cases (including at the World War II Nuremberg Trials) for decades. His snappish temperament, irascible personality and incessant grammar-police pronouncements can be trying. And his new secretary/personal assistant is definitely trying to make a go of her challenging new job. “Trying,” by Canadian playwright Joanna Read More →

FEATURE: Pablo Picasso Comes to Life in a Pandemic-fueled stage-to-screen adaptation

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/24/20 RUN DATES: 9/17/20 - 10/14/20 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre You are hereby invited to spend “A Weekend with Pablo Picasso.” Okay, maybe not a whole weekend… but the length of a feature film about a weekend. The solo theater piece of the same name, a tour de force written and performed by Herbert Sigüenza, premiered in 2010 at the San Diego Repertory Theatre (which commissioned it), was reprised there in 2013. Last year, it Read More →

FEATURE: Blindspot Collective Produces ‘Radically Inclusive’ Theater Spotlighting Unheard Voices

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/20/20 A collective is a cooperative enterprise. The 3½-year old Blindspot Collective is a nonprofit theater group that produces what they call “radically inclusive programming at the intersection of advocacy, education, and entertainment.” Their focus is “community-engaged theater that spotlights unheard voices.” They chose Blindspot for their name, says co-founder Catherine Hanna Schrock, “because our work seeks to capture the issues, people, groups and modes of theater that may not be in the center of our Read More →