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“BAD HOMBRES/GOOD WIVES” at the San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/15/19 RUN DATES: 10/3/19 - 10/27/19 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre Take one part Shakespeare, 3 parts Molière, a soupçon of Oscar Wilde. Toss in a sprinkling of banda music, macha feminisma, narco-traficantes and telenovelas. And what do you get? Herbert Siguenza’s latest concoction: a tasty new Spanglish treat: the world premiere, “Bad Hombres/Good Wives.” As in “The School for Wives” (Molière), an older man has a young girl sequestered in a convent, groomed to be Read More →

“INTIMATE APPAREL” at New Village Arts

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/1/19 RUN DATES: 9/20/19 - 10/20/19 VENUE: New Village Arts A woman alone in New York can be a treacherous enterprise. Especially in 1905, when immigrants are flooding the city, there’s a migration northward from within the country, and there are rigid societal divides according to race, religion and class. But Esther Mills lives in a safe boardinghouse. And she has a valuable skill that allows her to cross those boundary lines: she’s a seamstress Read More →

“GIRLFRIEND” at Diversionary Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 9/27/19 RUN DATES: 9/12/19 - 10/20/19 VENUE: Diversionary Theatre We’ve all been there a time or two. Sitting stiffly in a car or movie, next to someone you kind of like, wondering if the feeling is mutual and if anyone is going to make a move. In “Girlfriend,” the charming, 2010 coming-of age musical built around rock singer/songwriter Matthew Sweet’s popular 1991 album of the same name, we watch a tentative relationship unfold … slowly, Read More →

“AMADEUS” at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 9/13/19 RUN DATES: 9/4/19 - 10/13/19 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre Big play. Big ideas. Big cast and costuming demands. Sir Peter Shaffer’s “Amadeus,” chock full of glorious music and colorful characters, is an often-funny tragedy about mediocrity, zealotry, gluttony, hypocrisy, blind ambition and sheer, unvarnished genius. It’s the story of the buffoonish man-child Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as seen through the eyes of Antonio Salieri, composer and arch-rival in late 18th century Vienna – though the Read More →

“KISS MY AZTEC” at La Jolla Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 9/10/19 RUN DATES: 9/3/19 - 10/13/19 VENUE: La Jolla Playhouse The title gives a taste of what’s to come: a cheeky, salty, irreverent, playfully wicked (even a little scandalous) Aztec story, told smuttily, snarkily and satirically, as only John Leguizamo can. The Colombian-born, mega-talented multi-hyphenate (actor-playwright-standup comedian-filmmaker) has made a career of telling Latin stories (witness, for example, “Latin History for Morons,” the solo show he workshopped at the La Jolla Playhouse and took to Read More →

“AMERICAN IDIOT” at OB Playhouse

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 9/20/19 RUN DATES: 9/619 - 10/6/19 VENUE: OB Playhouse Disaffected, alienated, apathetic youth. Media-peddling of fear and paranoia. Saber-rattling and war-mongering. “American Idiot” could have been written yesterday. But the punk rock band Green Day created the concept album in 2004, and collaborated on the musical theater version that opened on Broadway in 2010. The national tour came through San Diego in 2013, but no local company has produced the through-sung musical to date. Until the ambitious, risk-taking Read More →