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THE 16th SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 9/22/17 RUN DATES: 10/4/17 - 10/8/17 VENUE: Arclight La Jolla, Regal Gaslamp, Pendry Hotel Fall is the season for pumpkins, cider… and film festivals: Venice, Telluride, Toronto, in particular. And for the 16th year, San Diego is throwing its hat in the ring… with the San Diego International Film Festival (October 4-8). Since its inception in 2001, the SDiFF has become one of the leading stops on the independent festival circuit. This year, more than Read More →

“BILLY ELLIOT” at San Diego Musical Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/2/17 RUN DATES: 9/22/17 - 10/8/17 VENUE: San Diego Musical Theatre “Billy Elliot” is a bittersweet story of triumph and loss. The musical is set against the backdrop of the UK miners’ strike of 1984, when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Conservative government made strong and systematic moves to dismantle the state-owned mining industry and destroy the unions (particularly timely, since the U.S. Supreme Court is set to strike a blow at unions in Read More →

“WILD GOOSE DREAMS” at the La Jolla Playhouse

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 9/15/17 RUN DATES: 9/5/17 - 10/1/17 VENUE: La Jolla Playhouse Metaphor, fantasy and hard, cold reality collide in “Wild Goose Dreams” by Hansol Jung, a spectacular world premiere co-produced by the La Jolla Playhouse and New York’s Public Theater. Set in Seoul, South Korea, the play begins with a fairy tale, whose moral is: If you have a choice between family and flying to Paradise … Fly! Birds, flight and illusion are intrinsic to this magical tale. Read More →

“ROZ AND RAY” at the San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego on 9/19/17 RUN DATES: 9/7/17 - 10/1/17 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre There’s an inherent challenge in writing a play about health, medicine or science: a considerable amount of talking and stage-time has to be allocated to exposition, explanation and terminology. So it is with “Roz and Ray,” the 2016 drama by former San Diegan Karen Hartman, who got her start as a ‘professional’ writer when she was a 16 year-old high school student here, winning Read More →

“THE EXPLORERS CLUB” at Lamb’s Players Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 59/1/17 RUN DATES: 8/11/17 - 9/24/17 VENUE: Lamb's Players Theatre “The Explorer’s Club” is an equal opportunity offender. Nell Benjamin’s 2013 comedy skewers everything in its 19th century path: the stuffy, upper-crust, brandy-and-cigar clique of Victorian England’s exclusive men’s clubs; monomaniacally obsessive scientists; the braggadocio of explorers; snooty patrician women; headstrong female scientists; and indigenous peoples and cultures. It’s open season, and the glorious set confirms that with all manner of bird and beast, stuffed and Read More →

“HAMLET” at The Old Globe

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/25/17 RUN DATES: 8/6/17 - 9/22/17 VENUE: The Old Globe For older men, the dramatic Everest is King Lear. For younger men, it’s Hamlet. Old Globe artistic director Barry Edelstein has chosen Grantham Coleman, an L.A.-based Juilliard graduate with stage and TV credits but minimal Shakespeare experience (“As You Like It” at the Public Theatre, “Romeo and Juliet” at the Actors Theatre of Louisville), to assay the tortured Danish Prince. The gamble paid off. Grantham Read More →