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NT LIVE “ANGELS IN AMERICA”

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 7/28/17 RUN DATES: July-August 2017 VENUE: various local movie theaters It was a knockout and a blockbuster when it opened in 1990. A jaw-dropping, theatrical game-changer. Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America” knocked everyone’s socks off, and garnered every honor imaginable, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. Set in the 1980s, at the peak of the AIDS crisis, the play, which is presented in two parts, considers the complexities of Read More →

“BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY” at Intrepid Theatre and New Village Arts

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 6/7/17 RUN DATES: 5/20/17 - 8/27/17 VENUE: Intrepid Theatre and New Village Arts Some people know exactly what they want, and they won’t let anything or anybody get in their way. Buddy Holly was that kind of guy. Born in Lubbock, Texas, he was at first shoehorned into Country-Western music. But the shoe didn’t fit. He exasperated some folks, by pushing his brand of rock and roll, which was infused with blues, gospel and R&B – Read More →

“KILL LOCAL” at the La Jolla Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/8/17 RUN DATES: 8/1/17 - 8/27/17 VENUE: La Jolla Playhouse It’s a small family business, established by a close-knit mother and her two daughters, after the untimely death of their beloved father. Everyone’s gotta make a living, right? Their gig is Murder for Hire. In some twisted way, they believe they’re doing what’s right (though the mother does admit to having no morality). In the end, though, what goes around comes around. I won’t say Read More →

“EVITA” at the San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 8/18/17 RUN DATES: 8/3/17 - 8/27/17 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre She may not have been the manipulative opportunist who appears in the musical. But Eva Perón, was an Argentine icon, beloved by the people during her life, and long after her death in 1952 at age 33. It’s no wonder her rags-to-riches story inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to create “Evita,” first as a rock opera concept album, and in 1978, a fully Read More →

“THE DROWSY CHAPERONE” at Premiere Productions

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 8/25/17 RUN DATES: 8/4/17 - 8/27/17 VENUE: Premiere Productions at the Welk Resort Theatre Think of all the tropes and memes, stock characters and recurrent situations of musical theater. They all pop up in “The Drowsy Chaperone.” There’s a handsome but bland leading man, a narcissistic leading lady, a Continental Lothario, a grumbling Broadway producer, a ditzy chorine, a butler and a pair of comically punning gangsters, all involved in mistaken identity, spit-takes, theater in-jokes and Read More →

“TOMFOOLERY” at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/18/17 RUN DATES: 8/17/17 - 8/27/17 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre He’s ferociously smart (a Harvard-trained mathematician by trade; he was admitted at age 15). And deliciously cynical. And brilliant with language and word-play. Too bad that Tom Lehrer stopped writing his wickedly hilarious songs in the 1970s. But his wonderful oeuvre is a lasting legacy, immortalized in a sprightly musical revue, “Tomfoolery,” adapted by Cameron Mackintosh and Robin Ray. The show premiered in London Read More →