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“MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS” at Coronado Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/26/22 RUN DATES: 3/18/22 - 4/16/22 VENUE: Coronado Playhouse Dame Agatha Christie was the queen of the locked room murder mystery. Edgar Allan Poe may have written the first one, in 1841 (“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”), but Christie wrote the most famous ones, among which is “Murder on the Orient Express” (1934). At the center is her popular Belgian detective extraordinaire, Hercule Poirot. Set on the elegant train in 1934, and inspired by the Read More →

“THE GREAT KHAN” at San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/14/22 RUN DATES: 3/3/22 - 3/27/22 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre All we know of The Great Khan (Genghis) comes from The Great Con (the teaching of history in school). So says playwright Michael Gene Sullivan in his rolling world premiere, “The Great Khan,” part of the National New Play Network, making its second stop at the San Diego Repertory Theatre (the other two member theaters for this production are the San Francisco Playhouse and Read More →

“EL BORRACHO” at The Old Globe

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/28/22 RUN DATES: 2/18/22 - 3/20/22 VENUE: The Old Globe “El Borracho” means ‘the drunkard.’ And the moment you enter The Old Globe’s in-the-round White Theatre, you get the picture. A cramped apartment features a huge suspended crucifix and is surrounded on all sides by hundreds of empty beer and whiskey bottles (3 or 4 deep), provocatively lit from below (beautifully detailed scenic design by David Israel Reynoso, with expert lighting by Mextly Couzin). Clearly, this Read More →

“ABIGAIL’S PARTY” from Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/1/22 RUN DATES: 2/24/22 - 3/19/22 VENUE: Backyard Renaissance Theatre company I haven’t ben to a party in years (Thanks, COVID). So, when I was invited to “Abigail’s Party,” I was psyched. But I never saw Abigail, a 15-year old whose first bash is taking place in another house nearby the adult gathering we’re in. Pretty much from the get-go, I felt like I’d wandered into George and Martha’s unwelcoming abode in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Read More →

“LOVE SONG” at Scripps Ranch Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/6/22 RUN DATES: 1/28/22 - 2/13/22 VENUE: Scripps Ranch Theatre A love song is usually pretty easy to decode and decipher. John Kolvenbach’s play by that name, not so much. There’s a brother and sister. She’s a tightly-wrapped, driven Type A++ executive whose anger and disgust with others (especially her invariably “incompetent” interns) is palpable, capricious and destructive.. Her brother is … well, different. Taciturn, solitary, reclusive. When he talks, he says strange things. Her husband, a Read More →

“CATCH ME IF YOU CAN” at San Diego Musical Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/20/22 RUN DATES: 2/11/22 - 3/15/22 VENUE: San Diego Musical Theatre Can you ever believe a conman? When Frank Abagnale, Jr. published his memoir in 1980, he told a pretty wild story. From age 16-20 (1964-1968), after his parents divorced, and he ran away from his New York home, he went on a massive crime-spree, forging checks and making a ton of money posing as a doctor, a lawyer (serving as assistant state Attorney General in Read More →