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“HUNDRED DAYS” at the La Jolla Playhouse

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 10/5/18 RUN DATES: 9/22/18 - 10/21/18 VENUE: La Jolla Playhouse Memoirs are tricky. What makes some else’s life story more interesting or stage-worthy than yours? Usually, there’s trauma and heartbreak. Love and loss. In the case of “Hundred Days” at the La Jolla Playhouse, the trauma happened in the past, when book, music and lyrics co-writer Abigail Bengson was 15. We never get her full backstory, but she alludes to familial madness and illness. Most of this Read More →

“BULL IN A CHINA SHOP” at Diversionary Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/6/18 RUN DATES: 9/13/18 - 10/14/18 VENUE: Diversionary Theatre The play begins in 1899, but it feels as fresh as this morning. It’s a story about women fighting for something more basic than equality – their personhood. Amazing that, 70 years later, we’re still engaged in the same battle. Of course, this is not accident or coincidence. “Bull in a China Shop” was written by Bryna Turner at the beginning of 2016 (and things have gotten Read More →

“OFFSTAGE” at National Comedy Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 9/21/18 RUN DATES: 9/11/18 - 10/25/18 VENUE: National Comedy Theatre The improvisers are improvising – in a whole new way. National Comedy Theatre, San Diego’s longest-running improv show, has been doing short-form improv, in the style of “Whose Line Is It, Anyway?,” for two decades. Now the group is trying an ultra-long-form experiment, called “Offstage.” The action follows a touring theater troupe. On the last two Thursdays of the month, the same seven performers will appear – Read More →

“ONCE” at Lamb’s Players Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 6/9/18 RUN DATES: 6/1/18 - 9/16/18 (multiple extensions) VENUE: Lamb's Players Theatre Once upon a time, there was a low-budget indie movie shot in Ireland in less than three weeks. The stars (Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, who was only 17 when the movie was made) wrote all the songs for the quirky, romantic musical drama. It became a sleeper hit and went on to win the 2007 Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film. The song, “Falling Read More →

“BAREFOOT IN THE PARK” at The Old Globe

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 8/10/18 RUN DATES: 7/28/18 - 9/16/18 VENUE: The Old Globe Corie Bratter is a free spirit. She thinks her husband is a stuffed shirt. He thinks she’s wild and impulsive; after all, she wants to go running “Barefoot in the Park” in the dead of New York winter. They’ve only been married for six days, but already, there’s trouble in paradise: their first fight, which leads to threats of divorce. They’ve haven’t yet figured out what Read More →

“MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING” at The Old Globe

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 8/31/18 RUN DATES: 8/12/18 - 9/16/18 VENUE: The Old Globe That wittiest, quippiest of couples is at it again. Beatrice and Benedick are back at The Old Globe for the 13th time. In Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” one of the greatest romantic comedies ever written, the linguistically acrobatic antagonists repeatedly swear they can’t stand each other -- until they’re tricked into embracing mutual devotion and marriage. In a parallel love story, young Claudio is more malevolently Read More →