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The Goodmans are the typical family ? coping with mental illness. Centering on the life of a mother who is bipolar and the themes of drugs, suicide, attempts for a cure and the American Family, the acclaimed, award-winning rock musical ?Next to Normal? will kick off Cabaret at The Merc?s 2013 season on one night only, Friday, inside the Merc at the Old Town Temecula Community Theater. ... Quick Read |
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It?s a ballet bonanza! In just the first five months of the new year, seven major ballet programs are coming to San Diego stages. The unusual wealth of offerings should warm the hearts of balletomanes, but far more than that, it provides a terrific opportunity to experience the rich variety of dance that, these days, goes under the umbrella of ?ballet.? ... Quick Read |
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Abraham Lincoln?s final months have been captured on the big screen this fall by filmmaker Steven Spielberg, but his final hours will play out this coming month in a new play with music by Hershey Felder at the Birch North Park Theatre. ... Quick Read |
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Jack O?Brien bursts into Nice Matin, a favorite breakfast spot near his Central Park West apartment. It?s early on a drizzly Sunday morning. The dogs have already been walked and fed. Against the chill, the vivacious director emeritus of San Diego?s Old Globe Theatre is wearing his ?Hairspray? fleece jacket ? his first Tony Award came for that hit show ? and his wool ?Dead Accounts? baseball camp, swag from his latest gig, a Broadway comedy by the estimable Theresa Rebeck. ... Quick Read |
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There?s a reason that many people?s holiday traditions include watching old films like ?It?s a Wonderful Life? or ?Miracle on 34th Street.? Their innocence, old-fashioned charm and unapologetic sentiment recall a kinder and gentler time. ... Quick Read |
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?I think ?The Nutcracker? really has really become part of the Christmas spirit,? Mark Erickson, the Ballet Studio Director, in reference to his company's production, opening Friday in Temecula. ?It really helps create the time of year.? ... Quick Read |
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One day last summer, the phone rang at the Encinitas home of veteran actor Robert Foxworth. It was his agent calling with an offer for the central role of Lyman Wyeth in the Pulitzer Prize-nominated play ?Other Desert Cities? at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Just a couple of hours later, the phone rang again. This time, it was the Old Globe Theatre, calling to offer the same role in the same play next spring in San Diego. ... Quick Read |
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For 10 years, Teatro ZinZanni has been serving up what?s now aptly named the ?Love, Chaos & Dinner? show in Seattle and San Francisco. Now, the zany, anything-goes cabaret has hit the road, and its first U.S. tour stop is in Costa Mesa. ... Quick Read |
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In 1994, Fallbrook theater co-producers Randall Hickman and Douglas Davis thought they?d try their luck with a Christmas show. They rounded up a couple dozen actors, rented a theater, sewed their own costumes, and the Premiere Productions Holiday Theater Festival was born. ... Quick Read |
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Not every Christmas party has an electric chair decorated with twinkle lights, or a front-door wreath laden with thorns designed to snag the clothing of party guests as they enter. But then, not every party host is John Waters, the eccentric filmmaker who will dispense pearls of his holiday wisdom Tuesday at the Belly Up Tavern. ... Quick Read |
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