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“RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA” at Broadway San Diego

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Blog Post on 12/2/17 RUN DATES: 12/1/17 - 12/3/17 VENUE: Broadway San Diego (Civic Theatre) There’s a bit of magic in the Civic Theatre this weekend. The national (non-Equity) touring company of “Cinderella” is in town… and it’s a winner: elaborate sets, excellent sound and lighting, and a robust 9-piece orchestra. The magic is in those spectacular costume transitions from glum to glam that both Ella and Marie the madwoman (who morphs into Fairy Godmother) undergo. The rest of the Read More →

“FALLING” at InnerMission Productions

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 11/18/17 RUN DATES: 11/10/17 - 11/25/17 VENUE: InnerMission Productions in Diversionary's Black Box Marriage and parenting are hard, stress-inducing work. But put a child with autism into the mix and the results can be ruinous. 88% of these marriages don’t make it. It’s a tricky balance, when the many problems —communicative, behavioral and otherwise -- of a child on the spectrum become the major focus of the entire family – and can wreak havoc on Read More →

“ROMEO AND JULIET” the Old Globe/USD grad program

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego on 11/16/17 RUN DATES: 11/11/17 - 11/19/17 VENUE: The Old Globe Juliet was barely 14 when she met her star-crossed soulmate, Romeo. They were kids – capricious, impulsive, hormonal. So, it seems appropriate that, in the USD/Old Globe Shiley Graduate Theatre Program production of Shakespeare’s doomed romance, directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, the energy is youthful, energetic, athletic and hot-blooded. The first half has plenty of salacious humor and smutty double entendres (Shakespeare had a penchant Read More →

“THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE” at Cygnet Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 11/3/17 RUN DATES: 10/11/17 - 11/12/17 VENUE: Cygnet Theatre Soon after the beginning of “The Legend of Georgia McBride,” Elvis has left the building. That is to say, Casey, an Elvis impersonator at a Florida Panhandle dive-bar, has just lost his gig, replaced by a couple of drag queens. When one of them drinks herself into a stupor, Casey agrees to wiggle into pantyhose, grab a wig, and strap on platform pumps. The show, after all, Read More →

“HAND TO GOD” at San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/27/17 RUN DATES: 10/19/17 - 11/12/17 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre If you put a sock puppet on your hand, you’d expect it to do what you did and say what you wanted it to say. But not Tyrone. He has a mind of his own – and a filthy mouth to go with it. The mop-haired moppet definitely has bite – and teeth that draw blood. Shortly into Robert Askins’ crazy, macabre hair-raising comedy, Read More →

“OF MICE AND MEN” at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/28/17 RUN DATES: 10/18/17 - 11/12/17 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre 1937. The peak of The Great Depression. Dreams were hard to come by, especially for migrant farm workers in California. But George and Lennie have a whopper: they’re going to get their own piece of property (and “live off the fatta the land,” as Lennie puts it). George has the whole plan laid out. Lennie’s all in, mostly because he’ll get to tend the Read More →