GROUNDSWELL
Sunday, March 27th, 2011
The legacy of Apartheid lives on even today, two decades after the end of its ugly segregationist laws, in Groundswell, Ian Bruce’s ninety-minute psychological thriller now getting an absolutely swell Southern California production at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre.
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…AND THEN I WROTE A SONG ABOUT IT
Saturday, March 26th, 2011
Triple threat Nick Cearley dazzles as quadruple threat “Randall Klausner” in the thoroughly marvelous …And Then I Wrote A Song About It, directed to perfection by Igor Goldin at San Diego’s Diversionary Theatre.
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JANE AUSTEN’S EMMA
Sunday, January 23rd, 2011
183 years before Hate At First Sight turned into Happily Ever After for Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks in You’ve Got Mail, a bickering Emma Woodhouse and George Knightley finally realized they were Made For Each Other in Jane Austen’s Emma. As fans of the 1996 movie adaptation (starring a very British Gwyneth Paltrow) or the more recent Pride And Prejudice (with Keira Knightley—no relation to George—as Emma’s literary cousin Elizabeth Bennet) are well aware, contemporary romantic comedies owe more than a minor debt of gratitude to Miss Austen.
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PLAID TIDINGS
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
The 1950s foursome (and eponymous 1990 musical) known as Forever Plaid, who’ve been entertaining audiences with their close-harmony vocals and amusing between-song patter for the past two decades, now make a Christmas season return to earth at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre in a holiday spin-off cleverly titled Plaid Tidings.
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SANTA CLAUS IS COMING OUT
Sunday, December 5th, 2010
Santa Claus Is Coming Out this Christmas in Jeffrey Solomon’s hilarious, beautifully acted solo-mock-u-mentary now playing at San Diego’s Diversionary Theatre.
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ANITA BRYANT DIED FOR YOUR SINS
Saturday, October 30th, 2010
“One of the funniest and most exquisitely written comedy-dramas to come along in a long, long while” is how I described Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins when it had its West Coast Premiere in Los Angeles last year. San Diegans (and Angelinos who want a first or second look at Brian Christopher Williams’ exquisite memory play) would do well to check out its terrific San Diego premiere at Diversionary Theatre under the expert direction of Shana Wride.
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MISS SAIGON
Saturday, September 11th, 2010
One of Broadway’s biggest smash hits of the 1990s, Miss Saigon, now lights up the nights at the San Diego-adjacent Moonlight Amphitheatre with its blend of war, romance, gorgeous melodies, and show-stopping production numbers. In a production directed with sensitivity and dazzle by Steven Glaudini and starring Jennifer Paz in the role which won her the 2008 Ovation Award as Best Actress In A Musical, Miss Saigon provides Broadway pizzazz and operatic passion in equal measure.
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BECKY’S NEW CAR
Saturday, September 11th, 2010
“When a woman says she wants new shoes, what she really wants is a new job. When she says she wants a new house, what she really wants is a new husband. And when she says she wants a new car, what she really wants is a new life.”
Imparting these words of wisdom is Rebecca (Becky) Foster, middle-aged wife and mother and the title character of Steven Dietz’s Becky’s New Car, now delighting San Diego audiences in an absolutely terrific production at Solana Beach’s North Coast Repertory.
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