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“A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE” at the Coronado Playhouse

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 7/27/18 RUN DATES: 7/20/18 - 8/26/18 VENUE: The Coronado Playhouse He may be just a Dublin bus conductor – but Alfie Byrne has the soul of an artist. By day, he recites poetry to his passengers. By night, he puts his dramatic passions into a community theater group. He’s enamored of fellow Irishman Oscar Wilde, quoting him liberally and communing with his ghost. He also has a dark secret he shares with the brilliant writer: the ‘love Read More →

“FOREVER PLAID” at the Welk Resort Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 8/3/18 RUN DATES: 7/14/18 - 8/26/18 VENUE: Welk Resort Theatre Funny thing about plaid. Every time the cross-stripe fabric waltzes out of style for a while, it somehow sashays back in. Same goes for “Forever Plaid.” The 1989 musical revue keeps re-surfacing, with its wacky costumes, geeky quartet and goofy premise. Now the tale of four nerds is back, a nostalgic reminder of the close-harmony guy-groups of the 1950s. The Plaids were killed enroute to their first professional Read More →

“A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM” at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 7/16/18 RUN DATES: 7/11/18 - 8/19/18 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre The term ‘slapstick’ may have its origins in the 16th century, but farces go back wayyy before that. It was the farcical characters of the ancient Roman playwright, Plautus (251-183 B.C.E.), that inspired the wacky 1962 musical, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” which won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical (it was penned 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 →

“DR. SEUSS’S THE LORAX” at The Old Globe

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 6/20/18 RUN DATES: 7/2/18 - 8/12/18 VENUE: The Old Globe Move over, Mr. Grinch. There’s a new Seuss creation in town. He “speaks for the trees.” But no one listens – until it’s too late. “The Lorax,” published in 1971, was La Jolla author Theodor Geisel’s favorite book. And it couldn’t be more timely. Having been adapted for TV and film, the classic has now been musicalized as “Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax.” The show is making Read More →

“MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT” at Cygnet Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 7/2/18 RUN DATES: 6/27/18 - 8/12/18 VENUE: Cygnet Theatre If you like ham and cheese, Cygnet Theatre is serving up a supersized sandwich, between thick slices of parody, harmony and silliness supreme. Lettuce just say, they’ve mustard a stellar cast for “Spamalot.” Round Table for two? What else can you do but eat ham a lot when dealing with “Spamalot”? (officially, “Monty Python’s Spamalot”). You can also ham it up a lot, and say cheesy Read More →