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Posts Tagged ‘Chris Rynne’

Stellar Cast Leads San Diego Opera’s Unusual Presentation of Verdi’s ‘Aïda’

By Ken Herman | October 20, 2019 | 1

San Diego Opera opened its production of Verdi’s beloved grand opera “Aïda” Saturday, October 19, 2019, at San Diego Civic Theatre with as winning a cast of “Aïda” singers as you will hear just about anywhere. The production runs through October 27, 2019.

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Kushner’s “Angels in America” Part One Lands Impressively at Cygnet Theatre

By Ken Herman | March 11, 2019 | 0

Saturday, March 9, 2019, San Diego’s fearless Cygnet Theatre opened part one of Tony Kushner’s prize winning “Angels in America–Millennium Approaches” in a prodigiously acted and tautly directed production under the magisterial direction of Cygnet Artistic Director Sean Murray.

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Politics, Not Theater, Fuels Cygnet’s So-So ‘Last Wife’

By Martin Jones Westlin | January 23, 2018 | 0

Henry VIII couldn’t soldier his way out of a wet paper bag, but he knew how to push other soldiers’ buttons. Then he met Katherine Parr, in whom he met his match. Cygnet Theatre Company’s ‘The Last Wife’ chronicles the events and the outcome — and while the script holds out Parr as a model, the show certainly does not.

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The Kids Are All Right in Terrific ‘Shockheaded Peter’

By Martin Jones Westlin | May 29, 2017 | 1

Psychiatrist and author Heinrich Hoffmann never figured on the modern-day backlash from his children’s book, designed to scare the daylights out of errant kids. The response is ‘Shockheaded Peter,’ Cygnet Theatre Company’s uniformly outstanding nod to the victims beneath the stories.

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Cygnet’s ‘Rocky Horror Show’: Brilliance Can Come from Anywhere

By Martin Jones Westlin | March 21, 2016 | 0

One man’s rough is maybe another man’s diamond — performance art history is full of shows and artists that under other circumstances would never have seen the light of day. ‘Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show’ is one of those items that happened along by chance — and Cygnet Theatre Company has exploited this brilliant production for all it’s worth.

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