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“CHESS” at the Barn Stage Company in Temecula

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 9/11/16 RUN DATES: 9/1/16 - 9/4/16 VENUE: Barn Stage Company at the Temecula Community Theater I’d heard about the Barn Stage Company, and I knew its artistic director, J. Scott Lapp. For a year or more, I’d been invited to come up and check out what they were doing. Finally, last weekend, the time was right. I went to see the concert version of “Chess.” And I was blown away. This was a production of Read More →

“AVENUE Q” at Coronado Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 1/28/15 RUN DATES: 1/23/15 -2/28/15 VENUE: Coronado Playhouse Be forewarned. There’s full puppet nudity. And loud puppet sex. F-bombs galore, and a rash of other raunchy words. And hilarious, target-hitting songs like “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist” and “The Internet is for Porn.” Not to mention poignant interactions and searing commentary on growing up, entering the Adult World, and acknowledging the reality that you may not be quite as “Special” as you’ve been told, Read More →

“THE TAMING OF THE SHREW” at InnerMission Productions

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/22/16 RUN DATES: 8/12/16 - 8/27/16 VENUE: InnerMission Productions (at Diversionary's Black Box) Planning a production of “The Taming of the Shrew” is a fraught endeavor, especially for a woman-run theater. So it was intriguing to see how InnerMission Productions, co-founded by Carla Nell and Kym Pappas (and winner of last year’s San Diego Theatre Critics Circle’s Don Braunagel Award for Outstanding Work by a Small Theater Company) would approach the controversial, patriarchal, misogynistic Read More →

“JUNK” at the La Jolla Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/14/16 RUN DATES: 7/28/16 - 8/21/16 VENUE: La Jolla Playhouse “This is a story of kings,” we hear at the opening of the world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse. “Or what passes for kings these days.” These potentates, like many before them, are embroiled in a battle over bucks. One of the many provocative questions posed in “Junk: The Golden Age of Debt,” is “When did money become a thing?” Perhaps it always was… Read More →

“SENSE AND SENSIBILITY” at The Old Globe

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 7/22/16 RUN DATES: 7/6/16 - 8/14/16 VENUE: The Old Globe The society may be different, but the sentiments remain the same. “Sense and Sensibility” was Jane Austen’s first novel, begun when she was 20, published in 1811, when she was 36. It’s about love and marriage, wealth and social standing, patriarchy and property, in the rigidly structured, male-dominated culture of late 1700s England. Her original title was “Elinor and Marianne,” clear evidence that her focus was on character. Read More →

“BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING STORY” at Broadway San Diego

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 8/5/16 RUN DATES: 8/2/16 - 8/7/16 VENUE: Broadway San Diego at the Civic Theatre “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” takes you on a heart-rending journey. It’s the story of one woman’s evolution from awkward Brooklyn songwriting wannabe to singing superstar. But it’s also the tale of two working partnerships and marriages: one that succeeds, one that doesn’t. And it’s a chronicle of the music styles and clothes of the 1960s and ‘70s. Carole Klein, who became Read More →