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  • San Diego Theater Review: MIXTAPE (Lamb’s Players Theatre at Horton Grand Theater)

    By Milo Shapiro | October 20, 2011
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    A SWEET TRIP BACK IN TIME Some shows really make you think.   Others are designed to move you to tears.   And then there’s miXtape, which is pretty much two full hours of cleverly-performed, good-hearted fun.   If that’s beneath you, move on immediately.   But if you don’t mind the idea of smiling, laughing, and even catching…

  • Regional Theater Review: SOMEWHERE (Old Globe in San Diego)

    By Milo Shapiro | October 7, 2011
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    THERE’S TALENT SOMEWHERE IN THIS FAMILY With West Side Story lighting up Broadway only blocks from their home, the Candelarias are inspired that Chita Rivera has cracked open the doors of opportunity for Latino performers like siblings Alejandro, Francisco, and Rebecca.   As Tony and Maria sing, “There’s a place for us:somewhere.” The Old Globe’s Somewhere…

  • San Diego Theater Review: WALTER CRONKITE IS DEAD (San Diego Repertory Theatre)

    By Milo Shapiro | September 29, 2011
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    THE UPS AND DOWNS OF SPENDING TIME WITH STRANGERS It’s everyone’s social nightmare brought to life: being trapped next to the annoying stranger who won’t shut up. But when it’s someone like the uptight, instantly off-putting Margaret (Ellen Crawford) getting trapped by a high-spirited í¼ber-Walmart-shopper-type like Patty (Melinda Gilb), this nightmare is a delicious delight…

  • Regional Theater Review: MILK LIKE SUGAR (La Jolla Playhouse)

    By Milo Shapiro | September 13, 2011
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    UNLIKEABLE CHARACTERS STILL LEAVE A RESONATING MESSAGE In Milk Like Sugar, Kirsten Greenidge’s sharply-written world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse, three African-American, inner-city high school girls, Annie, Margie, and Talisha (aka T), have formed a tight posse in order to survive the harsh realities of tenement life. With absent brothers and uneducated mothers (one of…

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