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“A DOLL’S HOUSE PART 2” at the San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 12/7/18 RUN DATES: 11/21/18 - 12/16/18 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre “A Doll’s House, Part 2” is an audacious extension of Ibsen’s 1879 classic, which is often considered to have portrayed the first stirrings of female empowerment. At the end of the play, Nora Helmer, a woman who feels suffocated in her marriage and her society, walks out on her husband and children, to find a more fulfilling life. When this sequel premiered last year Read More →

“SHE LOVES ME” at Scripps Ranch Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 11/30/18 RUN DATES: 11/9/18 - 12/16/18 VENUE: Scripps Ranch Theatre From a perfume shop to a leather goods store to a boutique book emporium. The setting of the story has changed over the years, in its various incarnations. The 1937 Hungarian play, “Parfumerie,” inspired the 1940 film, “The Shop Around the Corner,” and the 1998 blockbuster “You’ve Got Mail.” One of the most charming adaptations is the 1963 musical, “She Loves Me,” with music and Read More →

“THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD” at OnStage Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 11/24/18 RUN DATES: 11/9/18 - 12/8/18 VENUE: OnStage Playhouse Under the artistic direction of Teri Brown, OnStage Productions has provided a welcome temporary home to peripatetic theater companies, opening their doors to InnerMission Productions and Pickwick Players in the past. Now, OnStage is hosting Turning Tydes Theatre Company, a small local troupe best known for its wacky musical mashups at the San Diego Fringe Festival (e.g., “Les Midge,” a nutty combo of “Les Miz” and Read More →

“WAITRESS” from Broadway San Diego at the Civic Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 11/29/18 RUN DATES: 11/27/18 - 12/2/18 VENUE: Civic Theatre You’ve heard of blackbirds baked in a pie. Well, Jenna bakes all her hopes, fears, passions and frustrations into her crusty creations, with amusing, inventive names to match, like the “I wanna play Doctor with my gynecologist pie.” A waitress in a small (Southern? Southwestern?) town, Jenna (Christine Dwyer) is stuck in a miserable marriage to abusive Earl (the villain of the piece, a monster performed Read More →

‘WHATTA WAY TA DIE” at the Mystery Cafe

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 9/28/18 RUN DATES: 4/4/18 - 10/28/18 VENUE: Mystery Cafe When was the last time you had a little murder with your dinner? Or been served by a twerking, short-shorts-wearing policeman? Welcome to the wacky world of “Whatta Way Ta Die,” at the Mystery Café dinner theater, San Diego’s oldest comedy murder mystery event, going strong for 27 years. By the end of the crime family caper, there are more dead bodies than in the final scene Read More →

“MELANCHOLY PLAY” at InnerMission Productions

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 11/16/18 RUN DATES: 11/4/18 - 11/24/18 VENUE: InnerMission Productions There’s an almond-shaped mass of gray matter in your brain called the amygdala, that’s responsible for emotions. In 2001, this factoid inspired the now-acclaimed playwright Sarah Ruhl to create her first full-length work, “Melancholy Play.” As one character puts it in his “defense of melancholy,” it’s “a disappearing emotion.” We talk about depression all the time, but melancholy – often sentimentalized in song -- seems to have Read More →