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“THE COCKTAIL HOUR” at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 9/16/16 RUN DATES: 9/7/16 - 10/8/16 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre So, what do you think your family would say if you informed them that you’d written a play about them? And your play was called “The Cocktail Hour.” And you told them during the household’s inviolable cocktail hour, in a show called “The Cocktail Hour.” A.R. Gurney’s 1988 comedy of manners is so clever and meta and autobiographical. A little too smug and self-satisfied for Read More →

“PEERLESS” at Moxie Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 9/23/16 RUN DATES: 9/11/16 - 10/9/16 VENUE: Moxie Theatre Playwright Jiehae Park, an alumna of UCSD, seems to have taken the weird sisters’ incantation in “Macbeth” – “double, double, toil and trouble,” rather literally. Riffing on Shakespeare’s work, she created “peerless” in 2015, focusing on a pair of identical twins. She dubbed them L and M – single-letter initial stand-ins for Lady Macbeth and her mate. She also drew from the twisted true story Read More →

“TROLLEY DANCES” San Diego Dance Theater

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/3/16 RUN DATES: 9/24/16 - 10/2/16 VENUE: San Diego Dance Theater “Trolley Dances” is a local treasure. For 18 years, Jean Isaacs and her San Diego Dance Theater (SDDT) has been taking audiences all over the city (wherever the trolley runs): out to SDSU, down to the border, in midtown and East Village. Viewers watch short dance performances at various locations at or near the trolley station, they hop on again, go a few Read More →

“FULL GALLOP” at The Old Globe

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/7/15 RUN DATES: 10/1/15 - 11/1/15 VENUE: The Old Globe Some people go through life at a trot or a canter. Others forge ahead at “Full Gallop.” Diana Vreeland may have considered herself, “born lazy,” but she was an indefatigable devotee of beauty, class and style – who changed American taste in clothing, art and life. “The Empress of Fashion” served for 26 years as the fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaar, and then, starting in 1963, Read More →

“THE ADDAMS FAMILY” at Moonlight Stage Productions

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 9/27/16 RUN DATES: 9/14/16 - 10/1/16 VENUE: Moonlight Stage Productions at Moonlight Amphitheatre Finger-snapping did not accompany the cartoons of Charles Addams (1912-1988), that appeared for years in The New Yorker. But the short-lived TV show that bears his “Addams Family” name (1964-1966) inspired an animated version, several remakes, a video game and a movie franchise, not to mention the 2010 musical that has settled briefly in Vista, at Moonlight Amphitheatre (only 3 more Read More →

“ALL THE WAY” at South Coast Repertory

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 9/21/16 RUN DATES: 9/2/16 - 10/2/16 VENUE: South Coast Repertory Politics is a matter of convincing and compromise. And no one was a better schmoozer, seducer, arm-twister and back-breaker than our 36th President (1963-68), Lyndon Baines Johnson. It can be fascinating to watch how the sausage of lawmaking gets made, as we saw in the 2012 Steven Spielberg film, “Lincoln,” with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery. In a similar vein of Read More →