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“WOODY GUTHRIE’S AMERICAN SONG” from Intrepid Theatre

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Posted at Timesofsandiego.com on 6/5/16 RUN DATES: 5/12/16 - 7/17/16 VENUE: Intrepid Theatre at the Horton Grand Theatre His most famous song is “This Land is Your Land.” But while everyone knows the upbeat, patriotic verses of the Woody Guthrie classic, few are familiar with the more chilling verse – the one about hunger and poverty and welfare lines that ends, “Is this land made for you and me?” In “Woody Guthrie’s American Song,” a story-song narrative conceived in Read More →

“MISS YOU LIKE HELL” at the La Jolla Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 11/21/16 RUN DATES: 10/25/16 - 12/4/16 VENUE: La Jolla Playhouse The world premiere musical, “Miss You Like Hell,” is a road trip that lost its way. In its semi-staged workshop at the La Jolla Playhouse earlier this year, it was charming, whimsical and heartfelt. But in striving to become a full-blown, big-stage production, this small, intimate story has lost a lot of its charm. The creators are a dream duo: Pulitzer and Tony Award-winner Read More →

“THE ILLUSION” at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 3/3/17 RUN DATES: 2/22/17 - 3/19/17 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre “The Illusion” is steeped in wizardry and awash in words. In its play-within-a-play structure and its luxuriant language, it’s all about the magic of theater. While he was working on his deep, dark, AIDS-era masterpiece, “Angels in America,” Tony Kushner diverted himself by adapting a 17th century French comedy, “L’Illusion Comique.” It’s a humorous, sumptuous feast, in which there may not be a direct Read More →

“PETER AND THE STARCATCHER” at Lamplighters Community Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 5/4/18 RUN DATES: 4/20/18 - 5/13/18 VENUE: Lamplighters Community Theatre When you were young, didn’t you wish you could fly? Then disaster struck: you grew up. Everyone’s favorite airborne sprite, the one who never grew up, is back, in “Peter and the Starcatcher,” which is the creation legend of Peter Pan. The wildly imaginative play by Rick Elice, based on a novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, was first seen locally as a Page-to-Stage workshop Read More →

“OF MICE AND MEN” at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/28/17 RUN DATES: 10/18/17 - 11/12/17 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre 1937. The peak of The Great Depression. Dreams were hard to come by, especially for migrant farm workers in California. But George and Lennie have a whopper: they’re going to get their own piece of property (and “live off the fatta the land,” as Lennie puts it). George has the whole plan laid out. Lennie’s all in, mostly because he’ll get to tend the Read More →

“BULL IN A CHINA SHOP” at Diversionary Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/6/18 RUN DATES: 9/13/18 - 10/14/18 VENUE: Diversionary Theatre The play begins in 1899, but it feels as fresh as this morning. It’s a story about women fighting for something more basic than equality – their personhood. Amazing that, 70 years later, we’re still engaged in the same battle. Of course, this is not accident or coincidence. “Bull in a China Shop” was written by Bryna Turner at the beginning of 2016 (and things have gotten Read More →