Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Will the real Sherlock Holmes please stand?

By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California —  Where there’s a bounty there’s a bounty hunter or two…or possibly three.  This fact was made evident in the West Coast Premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher’s sleuth fest, Holmes and Watson. North Coast Rep’s David Ellenstein directed an all Actor’s Equity cast for this exciting and inimitable twist on Sir

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Actually’ provokes difficult questions

“Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thine heart.” (Proverbs 3:3) By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — What is Truth? How subjective or objective is truth? When we remember the same incident very differently, do we have different “truths”? These philosophical questions have

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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Bluestein dramedy to be read Oct. 29 at North Coast Rep

By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California -North Coast Rep Theater will produce the New Works Reading Series sponsored by Nebcal Printing, that will kick off with a dramedy written by stand-up comic Steve Bluestein. I had the good fortune to interview Bluestein by phone earlier this month. Rest, in Pieces is Bluestein’s baby, and will enjoy

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Eva Trieger, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Armstrong makes good on Kennedy’s promise

By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — It’s a magical movie.  In a foreign language.  With no subtitles. And it’s one of the most intense experiences you’ll have in a movie—even if you don’t know what they’re talking about. You may want to walk out, but stay with it.  It’s worth it. It’s history.It’s First Man, the story of what it took to get

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Cynthia Citron, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: October 14, 2018 (3 items)

Jewish TV commentator’s speech ‘postponed’ by Rutgers Lisa Daftari, a Jewish American of Iranian descent, had been invited by Rutgers University to give a speech on Tuesday, but now the appearance is “postponed”–and according to Daftari “cancelled”–by the university after Muslim students charged Daftari with Islamophobia. Daftari, who frequently appears as a commentator on Fox

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

His cup runneth over: 17th Annual Celebrity Sonnets

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Once again, the San Diego Shakespeare Society filled our ears with verse at the 17th Annual Celebrity Sonnets held at the Old Globe. Local personality Richard Lederer, clad in a velvet doublet and melon breeches, read an original sonnet in memory of the society’s founder, Alex Sandie, The

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Film on Antonio Lopez interesting yet sad

By Pamela Pollack-Fremd SPOKANE, Washington — Creative people have magnetism, a force, an affect all their own.  Antonio Lopez, a fashion illustrator and trend setter, was that kind of person. Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex, Fashion & Disco, a documentary directed and written by James Crump and produced by James Crump and Ronnie Sasson, introduces us to

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San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

‘Hay Fever’ has audience squirming

By Eva Trieger OCEANSIDE, California — What do you get when you combine an aging melodramatic actress, a volatile writer, their two self-absorbed adult children and four unwitting guests? A riotous collection of awkward moments, flaring tempers, emotive displays and loads of fun. Mira Costa College Theater School Director, Eric Bishop, brings us Noel Coward’s delightfully

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast