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“WITHERING HEIGHTS” at The Roustabouts Theatre Co.

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 6/19/17 RUN DATES: 6/11/17 - 7/9/17 VENUE: The Roustabouts Theatre Co. Maybe you remember the gloomy moors. Or Catherine calling out from beyond the grave, to her beloved Heathcliff. Or perhaps you recall Laurence Olivier chewing up the scenery in the 1939 film. Whatever you recollect of the timeless classic created by that “untalented, prune-faced, frigid Gothic” writer (that would be Emily Brontë, and her only novel, “Wuthering Heights”) it’s in the satirical spinoff, “Withering Read More →

THE 5th ANNUAL SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 6/27/17 RUN DATES: 6/22/17 - 7/2/17 VENUE: 24 venues around downtown San Diego The numbers are mind-boggling. The variety is eye-popping. It’s the 5th Annual San Diego International Fringe Festival, happening now (through 7/2). More than 500 performances by 100 artists from 87 different companies, in 24 different venues. Many performers are from San Diego, but they also come from as far away as Japan, South Africa and Australia. Every show lasts no more Read More →

ELTON JOHN AND TIM RICE’S AIDA

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 6/17/17 RUN DATES: 6/14/17 - 7/1/17 VENUE: Moonlight Stage Productions Okay, first let’s tackle the elephant in the room. Not a random metaphor, since the first time I saw the beloved Verdi opera, “Aida” (at age 12) was at the 2000-year old Baths of Caracalla in Rome. During the Triumphal March, there were actual live elephants onstage. It was magical, majestic, awe-inspiring. “Elton John and Time Rice’s Aida” is a horse of a different color (there Read More →

“THE REVOLUTIONISTS” at Moxie Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 6/11/17 RUN DATES: 5/25/17 - 6/25/17 VENUE: Moxie Theatre There’s a lot going on in “The Revolutionists.” The French Revolution, for example. But feminist playwright Lauren Gunderson has a lot more on her mind. Her 2015 modernist, meta-theatrical historical/comical fantasy concerns four 18th century women who made significant contributions to their country, but may or may not have been remembered. Gunderson is playing with theatrical form here. But for all its cleverness (mostly of the Read More →

“BLACKTOP SKY” at Ira Aldridge Repertory Players

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 6/23/17 RUN DATES: 6/10/17 - 6/25/17 VENUE: Ira Aldridge Repertory Players A young black man has taken up residence on a park bench in the midst of the projects. He hunkers down in a hooded parka, though it’s the height of summer. Crates and bags of his accumulated stuff surround him. Ivy, a recent high school graduate, passes him every day. He piques her curiosity and impetuous nature. She starts talking to him, though she’s still Read More →

“SHOCKHEADED PETER” at Cygnet Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 6/2/17 RUN DATES: 5/18/17 - 6/18/17 VENUE: Cygnet Theatre It’s a weird, wicked creation, born and nourished by sheer imagination. In 1845, psychiatrist Heinrich Hoffmann wrote “Struwwelpeter,” or “Slovenly Peter,” as an instructive picture book for his three year-old son. Despite the sinister nature of its grisly fairy tales, where violent death is the upshot of every story, it became a best-seller. Naughty or nasty children and a pair of abusive, neglectful parents suffer dreadful Read More →