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“DAMN YANKEES” at San Diego Musical Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 6/6/17 RUN DATES: 6/2/17 - 6/18/17 VENUE: San Diego Musical Theate It’s baseball season. What better time for San Diego Musical Theatre to step up to the plate and do battle with those “Damn Yankees?” They’re offering a rousing rendition of the 1955 classic, which won 7 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. In 1994, director Jack O’Brien launched a revival at The Old Globe, and he revised the show at that time. Director James Vasquez, a local Read More →

“THE OLD MAN AND THE OLD MOON” at The Old Globe

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 6/9/17 RUN DATES: 5/13/17 - 6/18/17 VENUE: The Old Globe A long time ago, the moon was always full. An Old Man kept it that way, filling it with liquid light. But it sprang a leak, and light began to seep out. And that’s why we have lunar cycles. This is the fairy tale, “The Old Man and the Old Moon” (reminiscent of a Kipling “Just So” story), told by the PigPen Theatre Company, currently Read More →

‘GIDION’S KNOT” at InnerMission Productions

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 6/1/17 RUN DATES: 5/26/17 - 6/10/17 VENUE: InnerMission Productions If you’re physically or emotionally claustrophobic, this might not be the theatrical entertainment for you. The situation gets pretty intense in the two-hander in Diversionary’s intimate black box space. InnerMission Productions thrives on intensity. They love to go deep and dark, and “Gidion’s Knot” is one of their best. It’s a penetrating confrontation, a clash of attitudes, philosophies and personalities. All this in a parent-teacher conference. Heather Read More →

“SILENT SKY” at Lamb’s Players Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 5/1/17 RUN DATES: 4/21/17 - 5/28/17 VENUE: Lamb's Players Theatre The mathematicians at NASA in the 1960s, as depicted in the popular 2016 film, “Hidden Figures,” weren’t the first women to be called “computers.” Much earlier, at the turn of the 20th century, female astronomers were “computers” confined to the unseen ‘back rooms’ of the Harvard College Observatory (HCO), where they toiled away under an autocratic male supervisor. In fact, Professor Edward C. Pickering’s female Read More →

“SKELETON CREW” at The Old Globe

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 4/16/17 RUN DATES: 4/8/17 - 5/7/17 VENUE: The Old Globe Here’s a startling statistic: In 1950, one in every six Americans worked, either directly or indirectly, for the auto industry. Then came increasing automation, the social/political cataclysm of the late ‘60s, the oil crises and the unrelenting rise of Japanese carmakers. And of course, the Great Recession of 2008, when two of the country’s Big Three automakers declared bankruptcy and had to be bailed Read More →

“PICNIC”at the Oceanside Theatre Company

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 5/19/17 RUN DATES: 5/4/17 - 5/21/17 VENUE: Oceanside Theatre Company It’s no picnic living in a small town, especially in mid-century Middle America, with its strict conventions and constraints, especially for women. So, when a hunky, handsome drifter struts into town and takes his shirt off to do some yardwork, the whole place holds its collective breath. William Inge was one of the great, naturalistic chroniclers of simple folk, reminiscent of his youth in Independence, Kansas. Read More →