Sunday, June 29, 2025

“MOULIN ROUGE” DAZZLES BUT LACKS COHESION

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 The long awaited North American tour of “Moulin Rouge”, winner of 10 Tony’s including Best Musical, has finally arrived at San Diego’s Civi...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

CYGNETS “OKLAHOMA” NOT YOUR AVERAGE RUN OF THE MILL ROGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN MUSICALS.

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Call it what you will: a rehashing, a renewing, a reimagining or a revival, Cygnet’s last show at The Theatre in Old Town,  “Oklahoma” by Ro...
Monday, June 2, 2025

DEANDRE SIMMONS SHINES AS DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING IN NEW VILLAGE ARTS “THE MOUNTAINTOP”.

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 At New Village Arts Theatre in Carlsbad, under the direction of Durwood Murray, Jr., and starring DeAndre Simmons as MLK JR. , Katori Hall’...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

“ONE OF THE GOOD ONES” AT OLD GLOBE HAS AN IDENTITY CRISIS.

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 In the 1967 controversial movie, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”, starring Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier and Katherine Ho...
Friday, May 30, 2025

“A BEAUTIFUL NOISE”: A NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL SALUTE.

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Several, or should I say eons ago, very good friends took me to see Neil Diamond perform in concert at the old Sports Arena on Midway. What ...

“MERRY ME” A RUN AWAY SEX FARCE AT DIVERSIONARY.

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Did you ever go to a play expecting one thing and half way through realized it was something altogether different?  When I attended “Merry M...
Monday, May 26, 2025

“JAJA’S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING” : A POWERFUL COMEDY... TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.

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 As someone who owned a hair salon with my daughter for over thirty years, Jaja’s African Hair braiding Salon is a world apart and a mile di...