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“OUR LADY OF KIBEHO” at Moxie Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 5/13/16 RUN DATES: 5/1/16 - 5/29/16 VENUE: Moxie Theatre It wasn’t all that long ago that Moxie Theatre staged a play about young girls who have visions, and go into trances, and get accused of being witches. That drama, presented 18 months ago, was “Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World,” which takes place ten years after the Salem witch trials in the 1700s. Now comes the West coast premiere of “Our Lady of Read More →

“GREAT SCOTT” at San Diego Opera

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 5/9/16 RUN DATES: 5/7/16 - 5/15/16 VENUE: San Diego Opera There’s some serious talent and brain-trust behind the new opera, “Great Scott,” co-commissioned by the Dallas Opera (where it debuted last October) and the San Diego Opera, where it’s currently having its West coast premiere. The composer is Jake Heggie (“Moby-Dick,” “Dead Man Walking”) and the librettist/playwright is Terrence McNally (“Dead Man Walking,” the Tony Award-winning opera-themed play “Master Class,” the book to “Ragtime” and Read More →

“SECOND SKIN” from The West and The Flagship Ensemble

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 4/5/16 RUN DATES: 4/1/16 - 4/3/16 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre There’s nothing quite like sitting around a campfire and hearing a spooky story. Even better if you’re at a firepit on the beach at sunset – and the ghostly element of the tale is a selkie, a mythical creature that’s a seal in the water, but can shed its skin and take human form. Female form. As the evening darkens, so does the Read More →

“WAY DOWNRIVER” at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 4/17/16 RUN DATES: 4/13/16 - 5/15/16 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre It’s positively Faulknerian (but more accessible). “Way Downriver,” Edward Morgan’s adaptation of the novella, “Old Man,” by Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner, has many familiar Faulkner elements: set in his home state of Mississippi (one of his works not set in fictional Yoknapatawpha County); focusing on human tragedy tinged with irony and sly humor; filled with Biblical references; and touching on issues of race, Read More →

“JESUS HATES ME” at ion theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 5/2/16 RUN DATES: 4/16/16 - 5/14/16 VENUE: ion theatre It’s not just the S-curves and sand-traps you have to watch out for at the Blood of the Lamb Miniature Golf Course in small-town Texas. It’s wacko Moms and failed suicides and Christ staring down from the cross at the 17th hole. Wayne Lemon’s 2006 warped dark comedy, “Jesus Hates Me,” is one deeply twisted, religion-unfriendly tale. (Lemon, btw, a native Texan, is the son of Read More →

“RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN” at San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on RUN DATES: 4/21/16 - 5/15/16 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre Freud wasn’t the first to ask the question, but he may be the most quoted: What do women want? Eighty years later, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Gina Gionfriddo is confronting the same question – with a feminine spin, but not much more of a definitive answer. “Rapture, Blister, Burn,” her 2012 comic drama, gives us four females, three generations, and tons of conundrums, like ‘What Read More →