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“THIS RANDOM WORLD” at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 3/9/18 RUN DATES: 2/21/18 - 3/25/18 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre Consider the age-old question of Fate vs. Free Will. Are we just ships that pass in the night, or are we all on a predetermined collision course? Reflecting the sly sensibility of his latest work, Steven Dietz called his play “This Random World,” subtitling it “The Myth of Serendipity.” In his imaginative, inventive universe, there are no accidents – even though the protagonists may not recognize Read More →

“VIETGONE” at San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/2/18 RUN DATES: 1/25/18 - 2/18/18 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre A motorcycle trip features prominently in Qui Nguyen’s 2016 play, “Vietgone.” But an equally expansive journey is taken by the audience – a neck-snapping ride that ranges from ninja to rap, satire to laugh-out-loud comedy to serious drama, winding up awash in poignancy. In his thoroughly engaging, appealing lovestory-with-a-political-backdrop, Nguyen turns every pre-conceived notion of Vietnamese refugees and Vietnamese Americans on its head. The stereotypes Read More →

“OUTSIDE MULLINGAR” at Scripps Ranch Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/12/18 RUN DATES: 1/190/18 - 2/18/18 VENUE: Scripps Ranch Theatre There’s something touching and fulfilling about watching a reluctant lover come around and a lopsided love re-balance. In the rural Irish countryside (2010-2015), Anthony (Stephen Schmitz) doesn’t have a clue that love is in the air. He’s too busy keeping his head in the clouds and ducking away from interpersonal contact altogether. Rosemary (Vanessa Dinning), whose family owns the adjacent farm, can’t think of anything but Read More →

“CLOUD TECTONICS” at New Village Arts

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 2/16/18 RUN DATES: 1/26/18 - 2/25/18 VENUE: New Village Arts The result is cataclysmic when the sun converges withthe moon. Well, not the actual sun and moon – Celestina del Sol and Anibal de la Luna. In a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, in the midst of the “storm of the century,” Anibal picks up a drenched, pregnant hitchhiker, and brings her home. Sparks fly. Time stops. The clocks freeze. They “watch the stars scrape across the sky.” They Read More →

“OUTSIDE MULLINGAR” at Scripps Ranch Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/12/18 RUN DATES: 1/19/18 - 2/18/18 VENUE: Scripps Ranch Theatre There’s something touching and fulfilling about watching a reluctant lover come around and a lopsided love re-balance. In the rural Irish countryside (2010-2015), Anthony (Stephen Schmitz) doesn’t have a clue that love is in the air. He’s too busy keeping his head in the clouds and ducking away from interpersonal contact altogether. Rosemary (Vanessa Dinning), whose family owns the adjacent farm, can’t think of anything but Read More →

“THE LAST WIFE” at Cygnet Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 1/24/18 RUN DATES: 1/17/18 - 2/11/18 VENUE: Cygnet Theatre Kate Hennig was kind of prescient when she wrote “The Last Wife” (which premiered in 2015). It’s about a womanizing tyrant, a volatile, petulant, childish bully of a leader who rules his country and his castle with an iron fist. But in this case, his titular spouse is smart, ambitious, assertive, and hellbent on having equality and authority. The power couple of the play is not contemporary: Read More →