Frankie – San Diego Story

UCSD’s tragic, intense ‘A Lie of the Mind’ revisits ‘The Twilight Zone’

By Martin Jones Westlin | February 19, 2014 |

Playwright Sam Shepard apparently thinks the individualism and romance that characterized the national soul is a thing of the past. His lamentable characters have reams of stories that explain this sorry state–and with UCSD’s fine ‘A Lie of the Mind,’ they’re in rare form.

Circle’s earnest “2.0” has the community, and military life, in its sights

By Martin Jones Westlin | February 4, 2014 |

Maybe Circle Circle dot dot needs to get more specific in its references to the city it seeks to portray and reflect. Even so, its “San Diego, I Love You, 2.0” features two very good performances in this story about military life and a couple’s sacrifice within it. The scrappy company understands that theater is a terribly public act, and its site-specific approach isn’t lost on an art form that’s been embracing community-based performance forever.