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“WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING” at Cygnet Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 1/29/16 RUN DATES: 1/14/16 - 2/14/16 VENUE: Cygnet Theatre Some people always think the sky is falling. Even if the world doesn’t end, the future looks so bleak to them that it can’t be faced. So they check out, in one way or another – abandonment or suicide. We meet a lot of those folks – generations of them – in Andrew Bovell’s masterfully intricate drama, “When the Rain Stops Falling.” The recursive play is Read More →

“OUTSIDE MULLINGAR” at the San Diego Repertory Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 2/5/16 RUN DATES: 1/21/16 2/21/16 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre There’s relentless rain, of course, coupled with loneliness, stubbornness and depression. A fight over the family farm. Superstitions and spectral voices, underscored by the lilt of flute, fiddle and brogue. Sure and begorrah, playwright John Patrick Shanley has written a valentine to his ancestral homeland, in “Outside Mullingar.” He’s even used the actual names of his relatives, to tell a tender and bittersweet love story Read More →

“RAGTIME” at San Diego Musical Theatre

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RUN DATES: 2/5/16 2/21/16 VENUE: San Diego Musical Theatre “Ragtime” has one of the great opening numbers. Like “Fiddler on the Roof’s” “Tradition,” it captures, in one song, the entire essence of the musical’s milieu. The show is set in New York, 1902-1912, and in the opener, the three very disparate groups stay squarely in their own space (mostly, in this production, though not as much as they should): the privileged whites, the music-playing blacks and the huddled immigrant Read More →

“PROOF” at Oceanside Theatre Company

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RUN DATES: 2/5/16 - 2/21/16 VENUE: Oceanside Theatre Company The title has multiple meanings in David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning 2001 drama, “Proof.” In one sense, it refers to a dense mathematical proof that has been discovered after the death of a brilliant mathematician. It also refers to the evidence required to determine who actually created the groundbreaking proof. And then there’s the issue of love, and the need for proof of its authenticity. Surrounding the Read More →

“TOSCA” at San Diego Opera

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RUN DATES: 2/13/16 - 2/21/16 VENUE: San Diego Opera at the Civic Theatre “Tosca” has a highly dramatic pedigree. The source material, an 1887 play by French melodramatist Victorien Sardou, was written as a vehicle for tragedienne Sarah Bernhardt. The result was enormously successful, reportedly performed 3000 times. The Puccini opera (with libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa) received mixed reviews from critics at its 1900 premiere in Rome, but it has remained an audience favorite ever since. Read More →

“MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS” at The Welk Resort Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 1/8/16 RUN DATES: 11/20/15 - 1/31/16 VENUE: Welk Resort Theatre There’s a reason some old warhorses aren’t trotted out that often; their fighting days are over – if they ever were in true fighting form. Such is the case with “Meet Me in St. Louis,” the 1989 musical based on the 1944 MGM film. Since the movie appeared during wartime, it can be excused somewhat for its feel-good, sappy sentimentality. But in re-framing the show Read More →