Pandemic aside, 2020 was a year of real progress for me in my pivot away from advertising and toward archaeology. Archaeology? This time last year it was Shakespeare/literature, and I was looking into master’s programs,…
I was introduced to August Wilson by a Study of Filmed Played class at San Diego City College, in which we watched Fences, the film with Denzel Washington and Viola Davis. Fences, set in the…
We thoroughly enjoyed God of Carnage at Lamplighters Community Theatre in La Mesa. This is becoming our home theatre because it’s so close, and runs a regular season of excellent plays and musicals. God of…
My whole family, including my mother and mother-in-law, went to see the San Diego Rep’s presentation of Hold These Truths at the Lyceum Theatre, at what used to be Horton Plaza downtown. The last time…
I took the family to see Twelfth Night at The Old Globe a few weeks ago. The show wasn’t part of the regular season; it was a special run presented as part of the Shiley…
My wife and I saw Romeo and Juliet at The Old Globe earlier this week. Director Barry Edelstein delivered an entertaining, high-energy interpretation that at times veered into parody, such as numerous meta nods to…
Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet (1996) is one of my favorite film adaptations. Like Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing (2012), it takes the original play’s plot bones and verbal muscle, and gives it a…
Well, it’s been a while since I posted about my academic progress, so here goes! I’m half-way through my third class after a gentle virtual return to college. I eased in with DRAM-107, Study of…
Last Sunday, my wife and I enjoyed the USD/San Diego City College co-production of credible by Lily Padilla and Alanna Bledman, loosely based on Six Characters in Search of an Author. Walking around the picture-perfect…
Sweat by Lynn Nottage is something of a very-recent-history play about what the author calls “the de-industrial revolution,” a time at the turn of the 21st century when American factories closed down and blue-collar workers…
