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“NOISES OFF” at Lamb’s Players Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 4/27/18 RUN DATES: 4/6/18 - 5/20/18 VENUE: Lamb's Players Theatre “Noises Off” has “Nothing On.” That is to say, the wild and wacky 1982 farce by Michael Frayn, “Noises Off,” has a play within the play called “Nothing On.” Both are equally ludicrous. Together, they’re hilarious. We start out at a rehearsal for the cheesy comedy being performed by a 3rd-rate English theater company that tours to far-flung holes-in-the-wall. It’s the night before opening, and everything Read More →

“RED” at Oceanside Theatre Company

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 5/7/18 RUN DATES: 5/4/18 - 5/20/18 VENUE: Oceanside Theatre Company What does RED mean to you? Blood? Passion? Roses? Wine? Anger? That’s a critical question in John Logan’s Tony Award-winning 2009 play, “Red,” which is all about color and light and art and ardor. The central figure is abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko – and so much more. Many of the character’s lengthy, intellectual, pedantic/artistic disquisitions come directly from the artist’s esoteric writings. If you now something Read More →

“A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC” at Cygnet Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 3/23/18 RUN DATES: 3/7/18 - 4/22/18 VENUE: Cygnet Theatre What’s your view of Love: Romantic? Wistful? Hopeful? Cynical? Sexual? Every permutation is on ostentatious display in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s lusciously bittersweet 1973 chamber musical, “A Little Night Music.” Inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s 1955 film, “Tales of a Summer Night,” the show highlights the mutability of marriage and interconnection, a web of jealousy and infidelity, lust and longing, in early 20th century idle rich and Read More →

“KING CHARLES III” at Coronado Playhouse

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 3/30/18 RUN DATES: 3/23/18 - 4/22/18 VENUE: Coronado Playhouse I’m not sure how the royal family feels about “King Charles III,” but Shakespeare would love it. Borrowing from the notorious borrower, playwright Mike Bartlett gleefully steals and subverts characters, plot-points and lines from the Bard’s plays. His drama-with-comic-moments is written in iambic pentameter. But instead of re-creating history, Bartlett foretells it. In the not-too-distant future, Queen Elizabeth passes on, and her son, Prince Charles, is ready to Read More →

“BASKERVILLE” at Scripps Ranch Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 4/13/18 RUN DATES: 3/23/18 - 4/22/18 VENUE: Scripps Ranch Theatre Sherlock Holmes may never have lived – but he somehow lives on forever. It’s endlessly fascinating – in any artform – to re-encounter the detective’s uncanny intelligence, skillful reasoning and methodical thinking. Never mind that he was an opium addict and an inveterate pipe-smoker. We love him for his brain, in spite of -- or maybe because of -- his flaws and peccadilloes. One of his Read More →

“WHAT HAPPENS NEXT” La Jolla Playhouse WoW Production

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 4/22/18 RUN DATES: 4/19/18 - 4/29/18 VENUE: La Jolla Playhouse site-specific WoW production An admonition courses through “What Happens Next,” a world premiere produced by the La Jolla Playhouse, in association with L.A.’s Cornerstone Theatre: “If you haven’t been there, you can’t understand.” The ‘there’ is war – specifically, in this case, the recent (ongoing) wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Award-winning playwright Naomi Iizuka, head of the MFA Playwriting program at UC San Diego, was commissioned by Read More →