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“A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS” at The Old Globe

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/31/18 RUN DATES: 3/23/18 - 4/29/18 VENUE: The Old Globe “The only skill you need,” her mother tells young Mariam, is “Tahamul.” Endurance. And endure Mariam must – a tormented rural childhood followed by an abusive, barren marriage. And then Laila comes into her life: free-spirited Laila, who is urban, privileged, educated and blissfully happy – until a bomb destroys her home and family. Desperate and penniless, she agrees to marry Mariam’s monstrous husband – becoming Read More →

Zoot Suit At The San Diego Repertory Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: October 8, 1997 MUSIC, up and under: “Zoot Suit” Call it the “drapes” of wrath; “Zoot Suit” is back. The clothes were defiant style-setters; the dramatic musical was an audacious groundbreaker. The zoot suit, or “drape shape,” was popular in the early years of World War II, high-styled with its Read More →

“curtain Calls” #189

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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 04/20/07 Enchanted April means Italian heaven, Dancers are On the Spot with Seven, As we sing Wozzeck’s elegy New Plays spring forth at UCSD. WHISPERS AND Read More →

“ROZ AND RAY” at the San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego on 9/19/17 RUN DATES: 9/7/17 - 10/1/17 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre There’s an inherent challenge in writing a play about health, medicine or science: a considerable amount of talking and stage-time has to be allocated to exposition, explanation and terminology. So it is with “Roz and Ray,” the 2016 drama by former San Diegan Karen Hartman, who got her start as a ‘professional’ writer when she was a 16 year-old high school student here, winning Read More →

“XANADU” at OnStage Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 7/14/18 RUN DATES: 7/13/18 - 8/18/18 VENUE: OnStage Playhouse Just how cheesy can you get? “Xanadu” has the ostentatious answer to that musical question. The 2007 musical (a parody of the airheaded, feather-light film of the same name) boasts a wacky book by playwright Douglas Carter Beane, and original direction by our own Christopher Ashley, artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse, where he brought it, direct from Broadway, to launch the national tour in Read More →

“faith Healer” At The Old Globe Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: August 16, 2002 Step right up and meet 'The Amazing Francis Hardy,' "Faith Healer" extraordinaire. But be forewarned: his act may be more destructive than restorative. In Irish playwright Brian Friel's 1979 drama, "Faith Healer," it's never quite clear if Frank is a savior or a charlatan, but his story seems to symbolize the artist's fragile dependence on the accident of talent. Any Read More →