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“THE ELEPHANT MAN” at Backyard Renaissance and Oceanside Theatre Company

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 4/10/16 RUN DATES: 4/8/16 - 4/24/16 VENUE: Backyard Renaissance and Oceanside Theatre Company There are dramatic tragedies, and there are real-life tragic stories. Joseph “John” Merrick had one of the latter kind – a heartbreaking tale of neglect, abuse, pain and abandonment. His mother died when he was young and, rejected by his father, Merrick wound up in one of those notorious Victorian London workhouses. Possessed of some horrific deformity (still unidentified) that rendered him Read More →

“WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?” at Intrepid Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/16/16 RUN DATES: 2/11/16 - 4/10/16 VENUE: Intrepid Theatre at the Horton Grand Theatre Sometimes, the stars align, and something stellar happens. Intrepid Theatre producing artistic director Christy Yael-Cox waited a long time until she could get her dream cast for Edward Albee’s award-winning 1963 masterpiece, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” When the co-chiefs of Lamb’s Players Theatre, Robert Smyth and Deborah Gilmour Smyth, finally became available, her dream came true. She added Intrepid resident Read More →

“THE MIRACLE WORKER” at Lamb’s Players Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/14/16 RUN DATES: 3/11/16 - 4/10/16 VENUE: Lamb's Players Theatre “Language,” Anne Sullivan tells us, multiple times in multiple ways, is “the only way out” of the mind-prison that is deafness and blindness. Sullivan is “The Miracle Worker,” who brought discipline, words -- and the world – to a young untamed and incorrigible Helen Keller. In William Gibson’s play, it’s a battle royal, until Sullivan figures out the best way to “discipline [Helen] without breaking Read More →

“R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER: THE HISTORY (AND MYSTERY) OF THE UNIVERSE

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/20/16 RUN DATES: 3/10/16 - 4/10/16 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre One of the major precepts of the scientist-philosopher-inventor-cosmologist Buckminster Fuller was “Less is more.” If only that principle had been applied to the updated production of D.W. Jacobs’ “R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe.” Jacobs, who conceived, created and directed the show, was the co-founder, with Sam Woodhouse, of the San Diego Repertory Theatre in 1976. He left in 1997, Read More →

“WAITING FOR GODOT” Fruitlessmoon Theatreworks

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Aired on KSDS-FM Jazz88 on 4/1/16 RUN DATES: 3/25/16 - 4/10/16 VENUE: Fruitlessmoon at the White Box, Liberty Station It may be a definitive classic, but it’s also a gargantuan challenge. Samuel Beckett’s 1953 masterwork, “Waiting for Godot,” is an absurdist tragicomedy. Achieving the right balance is crucial. Voted by 800 British theatermakers as the most significant English language play of the 20th century, the piece is all about dichotomy and antithesis. It’s about artifice and realism, birth Read More →

“THE JACKSONIAN” at ion theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 3/11/16 RUN DATES: 2/27/16 - 3/26/16 VENUE: ion theatre Remember the wacky, sadistic dentist in “Little Shop of Horrors?” The one who beat up on poor, gullible Audrey and laughed himself silly on nitrous oxide? Well, he’s met his Southern Gothic counterpart, in a 2013 jet-black, off-the-wall amusement - with gore galore – by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley. Dr. Perch says he’s known as “the painless dentist.” But don’t believe a word of it. Read More →