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“MARGIN OF ERROR” at Roustabouts Theatre Company

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 4/28/17 RUN DATES: 4/20/17 - 5/4/17 VENUE: The Roustabouts Theatre Company Does genius grant exemption from morality? Certainly, many brilliant artists and scientists have exhibited less than brilliant behavior. Take Anton Myrvold. He’s just become a finalist for the Nobel Prize in Physics. He considers himself, and his work, beyond reproach. He’s actually labeled himself the “conscience of science.” He’s passionate about his work on astronomical Dark Matter. But, over the course of one evening, Read More →

“FLEMMING (AN AMERICAN THRILLER) at Scripps Ranch Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 4/14/17 RUN DATES: 3/31/17 - 4/30/17 VENUE: Scripps Ranch Theatre It was one of those balmy nights in San Diego. I found myself huddled in a dark room. Twenty feet away from me, people were dropping dead, one after another: gunshot, poison, excessive numbers of bizarre alcoholic beverages. It was enough to make a jaded critic sit up and take notice. A well-appointed black and white room. Eight black-and-white-clad characters. Characters with a capital K. Read More →

“LA TRAVIATA” at San Diego Opera

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 4/27/17 RUN DATES: 4/21/17 - 4/30/17 VENUE: San Diego Opera Poor Violetta. After the glam-life of a famous courtesan in the Parisian demimonde, she finally finds true love. But it’s ripped away from her, leaving a trail of regret and remorse behind. The ill-fated heroine has made seven previous visits to San Diego, in the beloved Verdi classic, “La Traviata” (‘the fallen woman’). This time, she’s been transported to a different timeframe: the Roaring ‘20s, Read More →

“INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH” at the San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 4/7/17 RUN DATES: 3/30/17 - 4/23/17 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre I fell in love with the writing of Luis Alberto Urrea when I read “The Hummingbird’s Daughter,” which inspired me to devour “Into the Beautiful North,” his 2009 quest novel set in Mexico, San Diego and Kanakee, Illinois. “Beautiful North” didn’t have the elegance or magical realism of “Hummingbird,” but it was filled with humor and whimsy. The novel won acclaim and was selected Read More →

“AWAKE AND SING” at New Village Arts

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 4/7/17 RUN DATES: 3/17/17 - 4/16/17 VENUE: New Village Arts Capitalism. Marxism. Pragmatism. Jewish Motherism. “Awake and Sing!” has a little of everything, as the eccentric Berger family struggles through the Great Depression. Three generations, plus assorted hangers-on, are crammed into a small Bronx apartment. Grandpa Jacob is the book- and music-loving Marxist, who decries rapacious capitalists like his self-satisfied son Morty. Jacob’s indomitable daughter Bessie just wants what’s best for everyone – as long as she Read More →

“SHADOWLANDS” at Lamb’s Players Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/13/17 RUN DATES: 3/3/17 - 4/9/17 VENUE: Lamb's Players Theatre A power couple portraying a power couple. Deborah and Robert Smyth did a smashing job last year as George and Martha in Intrepid Theatre’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (both won Outstanding Lead Performer honors at the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle awards event last month). Those roles exposed the brutal side of a twisted love relationship. Now, back on their home turf at Lamb’s Players Read More →