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“NOW YOU SEE IT” at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 3/4/16 RUN DATES: 2/24/16 - 3/27/16 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre French farceur Georges Feydeau has been dead for nearly a century. But an English translation of one of his works is now making its American premiere, in a major coup for North Coast Repertory Theatre. This isn’t the first translation of the 1892 comedy, but British playwright Kenneth McLeish made some essential alterations to the original in the 1990s, conflating characters, shifting the focus Read More →

“SEMINAR” from InnerMission Productions

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 3/18/16 RUN DATES: 3/10/16 - 3/26/16 VENUE: InnerMission Productions at Diversionary Theatre's Black Box Fiction writers are pigs, whores and feral cats, we’re told. Inhuman, pretentious and narcissistic. But the braggadocio invariably masks colossal insecurity. All they want is a little feedback and encouragement. So, four young, struggling New York up-and-comers have been hand-picked to shell out $5000 each for a 10-week writing workshop, a master class with a so-called genius. Turns out, he’s Read More →

“ROPE, THE MUSICAL” at Tenth Avenue Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/21/16 RUN DATES: 3/17/16 -4/2/16 VENUE: Tenth Avenue Theatre Call it a midlife crisis. Or a moral quandary. But William Maledon, “The Prince of Hangmen,” is having doubts. It’s 1895, and after 90 hangings, he’s ready to hang it up, and put the past behind him. But his narcissistic, manipulative wife, Millie, is in no way ready to give up the spotlight her husband’s career affords her. Some people claim fame any way they Read More →

“THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS” at Scripps Ranch Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/3/16 RUN DATES: 1/22/16 - 2/21/16 VENUE: Scripps Ranch Theatre William Inge was hot stuff in the 1950s. He had four acclaimed plays running on Broadway. He’d won a Pulitzer Prize (in 1953, for “Picnic”). But his work, which leans toward Americana melodrama, has fallen somewhat out of favor. This is perhaps most true of “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs,” which was nominated for a Best Play Tony Award in 1958 Read More →

“TELL ME ON A SUNDAY” at Broadway Vista Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/11/16 RUN DATES: 2/5/16 - 2/28/16 VENUE: Broadway Vista Theatre Looking for love in all the wrong places. Like New York. Or L.A. Emma left her home in small-town North London to snag a man and a green card (in either order). “Tell Me on a Sunday,” a one-act-one-woman, one-hour song cycle, is the first act of a 1979 collaboration between Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) and Don Black (lyrics). This was the ‘song’ part. The Read More →

“NOW OR LATER” at Diversionary Theatre

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RUN DATES: 2/11/16 - 3/13/16 VENUE: Diversionary Theatre If you’re feeling a lack of political debate, discussion and ideology in your life, you’ll want to rush to see “Now or Later” at Diversionary Theatre Christopher Shinn’s drama is set on the eve of a Presidential election. Written in 2007, it premiered (and is set) in 2008. But in 2015, the playwright went back and tweaked the piece, updating some of the info on gay marriage. All the other issues Read More →