Matthew Lickona
Managing Editor and Theater Critic at San Diego Reader
Freelance Film Critic at National Review
Owner/Editor of the San Diego Reader weekly newspaper
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1 week ago |
sandiegoreader.com | Matthew Lickona
Latine laugher must close this weekend You can learn a lot about Gloria Calderón Kellett’s One of the Good Ones from this publicity photo taken by Rich Soublet II. The fellow at the door looks like a clueless gringo who thought it would be a good idea to bring a Mexican piñata as a present for his first visit to his Latine girlfriend’s parents.
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1 week ago |
sandiegoreader.com | Matthew Lickona
What is life to a goldfish? C.S. Lewis, among others, referred to eternity as an ever-present now, at one point writing, “the present is the point at which time touches eternity.” Noah Haidle, in his plus ca meme chose play Birthday Candles, cleverly embodies this concept via a creature that apparently does not worry about the future, and reputedly does not remember the past: the goldfish.
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2 weeks ago |
sandiegoreader.com | Matthew Lickona
Lesbian laugher must close this weekend The note from dramaturg Jesse Marchese lets us know that Hansol Jung’s exercise in “lesbian camp” is “stupid smart, a dramaturgical mashup of theatrical sources from throughout history.” Those sources include Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis, Wycherly’s The Country Wife, Kushner’s Angels in America, Wilder’s Our Town, and Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War.
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2 weeks ago |
sandiegoreader.com | Matthew Lickona
[Editor's note: Regrettably, the reviews for both this and Diversionary Theater's Merry Me were delayed, and both shows will close this weekend. But there's still time to see them!]When I attended North Coast Rep’s Birthday Candles last weekend, artistic director David Ellenstein said during his opening remarks that when he sees movies, he tends to think first of the director, but when he sees plays, the actor is king. I get what he was getting at.
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4 weeks ago |
sandiegoreader.com | Matthew Lickona
Mostly winsome, mostly winning, always assured Near the end of Jocelyn Bioh’s mostly winsome, mostly winning play set in a Harlem hair braiding salon, a woman who came in near the beginning and ordered microbraids says to the staff, “Thank you for this; I feel like I moved in for the day.” Comes the quick reply, “You did.” And just as a house is not the same as a home, simply being in a place is not the same as moving in.
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Reviewed this week: APPROPRIATE at the Old Globe. Not mentioned, alas: Maggie Lacey's anchoring performance as the immovable object against which all these unstoppable forces crash. https://t.co/I8ZjIDotMu
Print media, ladies and gentlemen...for the record, that's a dawn shot in the header, not a sunset. Because hope is a virtue. https://t.co/zzRdHwFbrN
THE SUBSTANCE: Demi Moore sees Sunset Boulevard and says, "Hold my beer. And also my psychedelics."