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“SWEAT” at the San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 5/10/19 RUN DATES: 4/18/19 - 5/12/19 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre The American Dream is slipping away. Once upon a time, folks believed that if you worked hard, you’d earn a comfortable, middle-class life. But the middle class is eroding, and nowhere is that more evident than Reading, Pennsylvania. In 2011, the year that city was named the poorest in the country, playwright Lynn Nottage started making trips there from New York, interviewing residents to Read More →

“SISTER ACT” at San Diego Musical Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 5/17/19 RUN DATES: 4/26/19 - 5/26/19 VENUE: San Diego Musical Theatre You’ve got your brotherhood of gangsters and your sisterhood of nuns. And a bevy of characters straight out of central casting: the gun-shy cop and the hard-nosed Mother Superior. The jocular Monsignor and the repressed novitiate who yearns for excitement. “Sister Act” is kind of silly, and it doesn’t run deep, but it’s very entertaining. You just have to suspend all your disbelief… which Read More →

“HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH” at Diversionary Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 4/12/19 RUN DATES: 3/21/19 - 5/5/19 VENUE: Diversionary Theatre Poor Hedwig. Born Hansel in East Berlin, a city, like himself, split in two, he was abandoned by his American G.I. father and neglected by his Hitler-loving Teutonic mother. An American soldier promised him a new life – if he’d put on a wig and become a wife. So, he left something of himself behind, and the botched surgery also left a little something -– the Read More →

“ALL IN THE TIMING” at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 4/19/19 RUN DATES: 4/10/19 - 5/5/19 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre In theater, it’s said that “Timing is everything.” Or, as acclaimed playwright David Ives put it in his title, it’s “All in the Timing.” To prove the point, North Coast Repertory Theatre artistic director David Ellenstein has assembled a crackerjack cast of comic virtuosos. In the late 1980s, Ives began to create a series of playlets that go together as a sextet, enacted by a Read More →

“THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS” at New Village Arts

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 4/26/19 RUN DATES: 4/10/19 - 5/5/19 VENUE: New Village Arts The premise demands a bit of the frenetic. “The Servant of Two Masters” says it all. One man, trying to minister to the needs of two patrons, both staying in the same inn, traveling with identical suitcases, awaiting an important letter that will seal their nuptial machinations. And you can imagine the rest: a bucketload of puns, pratfalls, slapstick, audience interaction, women playing men, men Read More →

“GEOGRAPHY OF A HORSE DREAMER” at Casual Company

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 4/22/19 RUN DATES: 4/5/19 - 4/28/19 VENUE: Casual Company Sam Shepard, King of the Wild Frontier. The late, much-admired actor/writer/director spent his playwriting life debunking the myths of the Old West – and creating a mythos of his own. “Geography of a Horse Dreamer,” a brief early play, was written during the years Shepard spent in London (1971-1974), when he was dreaming of his own “lost” geography, the Good Old U.S. of A. -- warts and Read More →