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“MARIE AND ROSETTA” at Cygnet Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 1/22/19 RUN DATES: 1/16/19 - 2/16/19 VENUE: Cygnet Theatre In recent years, more and more stories have surfaced (or been unearthed) about women whose significant contributions to life, science or society have been buried, lost or co-opted by men. There’s also a long history of African American innovations – especially musical – that have been appropriated by whites. That makes Sister Rosetta Tharpe a double whammy. This black, gospel-singing, bisexual woman from Arkansas was the first to Read More →

“AUBERGINE” at the San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/2/19 RUN DATES: 1/24/19 - 2/17/19 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre Food is culture. Food is family. And food, as everyone from Marcel Proust to playwright Julia Cho knows, can evoke deep and weighty memories. Ray knows this intuitively. He’s a Paris-trained gourmet chef who has a special gift: he always knows exactly what food will go directly to the heart and soul of any given person, bringing them back to earlier, happier times. But his Read More →

“FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE” at OnStage Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/5/19 RUN DATES: 2/1/19 - 2/23/19 VENUE: OnStage Playhouse “People are given a moment,” Johnny tells Frankie. He’s ready to grab the opportunity by the horns. Frankie’s a lot more skeptical, but Johnny’s sure he’s found everything he wants in Frankie’s Hell’s Kitchen apartment. These two flawed, “not old, not young” New Yorkers are dragging around a good deal of baggage, and it’s not at all clear that they have a matched set. But one moonlit Read More →

“MOON OVER BUFFALO” at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 1/25/19 RUN DATES: 1/9/19 - 2/10/19 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre Ken Ludwig has written some wild and wacky comic stuff – which has won him two Olivier Awards in England and two Tonys on Broadway. He’s premiering a new comedy at The Old Globe this spring. But though farce may be timeless, not all jokes last forever. Ludwig’s 1995 “Moon Over Buffalo,” which was produced at North Coast Repertory Theatre 19 years ago, is back Read More →

“PLAYS BY YOUNG WRITERS” from Playwrights Project

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 1/18/19 RUN DATES: 1/10/19 - 1/26/19 VENUE: Playwrights Project at The Old Globe The 34 year-old Playwrights Project sends theater teaching artists into schools, to promote literacy by helping students learn to create characters and write plays. And every year, the Project sponsors a statewide student playwriting competition called Plays by Young Writers. Of the 415 submissions last year, five were chosen as winners. The three written by 16-18 year olds are receiving fully-staged productions. Read More →

“HELLO, DOLLY!” from Broadway San Diego at the Civic Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 1/18/19 RUN DATES: 1/15/19 - 1/20/19 VENUE: Broadway San Diego at the Civic Theatre Growing up in New York during what turned out to be the Golden Age of the American Musical, I was privileged to have seen the original casts of many of the greats, “Hello, Dolly!” among them. I first saw Carol Channing in the lead in 1964, the year the fabulous Jerry Herman show opened – and ran for 2844 performances. I Read More →