Moxie Theatre

"An Illiad" tops list of 2012 Craig Noel Awards

SAN DIEGO -- A modern interpretation of a classic text -- La Jolla Playhouse/Berkeley Repertory Theatre's production of “An Iliad” -- swept its nominated categories to receive five Craig Noel Awards on Monday night.

Moxie Theatre parlayed three strong 2012 productions to take home the Braunagel Award for outstanding contribution to the San Diego arts scene by a small-budget theater.

A total of 22 productions from nine theater companies were honored at the awards ceremony and reception, held Feb. 4 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, in La Jolla.

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THEATER REVIEW: Moxie's wild and woolly “Hickorydickory”

“Nobody expects to live forever, but nobody expects to die in the next 10 minutes.” – Jimmy

What if you could know when your number will be up? Would you want to? If you did know, would you tell anyone?

In a wild and woolly cross between dysfunctional family comedy and bloody thriller that shifts time as quickly as costumes (and uses five actors to play nine characters), playwright Marisa Wegrzyn explores that possibility in “Hickorydickory,” playing through Dec. 16 at Moxie Theatre.

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THEATER REVIEW: Moxie’s memorable “The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek”

The trestle above Pope Lick Creek is 100 feet above the ground, and over that trestle hustles the 560-ton train that chugs though the small Kentucky town of Fisherville.

It’s 1936, and like the rest of the country, Fisherville is drowning in dashed hopes, high unemployment and wrecked lives wrought by the Great Depression.

Pace Creagan (Amanda Osborn), a 17-year-old tomboy daredevil who fears nothing and will try anything, has discovered the challenge of trying to outrun the 560-ton train. Now she wants to bully 15-year-old Dalton Chance (Ryan Kidd) into doing the run with her.

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Jim Winsor's Out & About: The gayest guide to San Diego Pride 2012

An annual tradition returns! Here again is my omnibus guide to all boy-related events during San Diego Pride, fully hyper-linked and in chronological order. So be sure to bookmark this page on your smart phones, for ease of reference during this hectic event-filled weekend.

Have fun guys, and I'll see you this weekend out and about!

Thursday, July 19

7 pm | Country Pride/Meet the Men of Dirty Tony's at Urban Mo's

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THEATER REVIEW: Moxie’s “A Raisin In The Sun” is brilliant

Every once in a while I see a play so good that it seems the only review necessary is “Don’t miss it.”

Moxie Theatre’s production of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic “A Raisin In The Sun” (running through March 4) is in that category. Brilliantly directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, this is a “Raisin” to remember.

On Sean Fanning’s appropriately frayed South Chicago set, the Younger family will play out Langston Hughes’ question “What happens to a dream deferred?” – Hansberry’s inspiration for the play.

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THEATER REVIEW: “Ten Cent Night” brings out the crazy characters

How’s this for a lineup: A hard-drinkin’, hard-hearted, git-tar-pickin’ woman who says of her twin sister, “About my favorite sound in the world was the sound Dee’s heart made when it broke.”

A madam with a heart of barbed wire. A 16-year-old girl with a life-threatening heart problem, sweet on her twin brother. A “collector,” aka enforcer. And a 20-something mute.

Sounds like a gang that belongs in a country/western song, doesn’t it?

But no, it’s the cast of Marisa Wegrzyn’s quirky “Ten Cent Night,” playing through June 26 at Moxie Theatre.

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THEATER REVIEW: “Or,” by Liz Duffy Adams, is very engaging at Moxie Theatre

“Whore is scarce a more reproachful name than Poetess.” - John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Poet and playwright, government spy and lover of many, Aphra Behn was a phenom on the 17th-century English arts scene.

Moxie Theatre brings us “Or,” Liz Duffy Adams’ fanciful, delightful, word-drunk romp about Behn and a few of her contemporaries, through April 23. Shana Wride directs.

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