In San Diego County, where cases have been ticking up, but not astronomically, local theaters continue to follow the state’s guidelines and are not requiring face masks. The decision was based on fast-rising COVID case rates in the city. On May 20, the Broadway League in New York City announced plans to extend its mandatory mask mandate for ticket-buyers at all of its 41 member theaters through June 30. The show reopens Thursday and the run has been extended a week to June 19. Diversionary’s ‘Eighty-Sixed’ to make up datesĪs the result of a COVID outbreak among some cast members, Diversionary Theatre canceled a week of performances for its world premiere musical “Eighty-Sixed” earlier this month. Tickets are free, but reservations are required. Four native women from different generations search for those who have disappeared and wonder if they’ll ever have closure. The play looks inside the startling statistic of the 5,712 missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls. “Four Women in Red,” by Laura Shamas, a member of the Chickasaw tribe, will be presented at 4 p.m. But something insidious is haunting the town and and her only native co-worker has disappeared without a trace. It’s a mystery story about an Indian couple who move to a small Massachusetts town where the wife, Aislin, has a new job at a natural history museum.
Verrone, who is a member of the Osage and Kiowa tribes, will be presented at 1 p.m. La Jolla Playhouse will present readings of two new plays by American Indian authors on June 4, as part of its longtime partnership with the Native Voices at the Autry’s 28th festival of new plays.
It’s directed by Tony-winner Rachel Chavkin (“Hadestown”).įor information on the new song visit. The musical’s book, lyrics and original concept is by Carson Kreitzer, with book and music by Matt Gould. Espinosa originated the role of Tamara in the musical’s 2018 world premiere at the Williamstown Theater Festival. Then, when the Germans entered Paris in 1940, she fled again to Los Angeles. Lempicka was a painter who fled the Russian Revolution and built an international career in bohemian Paris with her sensuous paintings. Today, Sony Masterworks Broadway has released for downloads the debut single from the upcoming “Lempicka” cast album, “Woman Is,” performed by Espinosa. But fans of the musical about famed Russian painter Tamara de Lempicka don’t have to wait that long to hear star Eden Espinosa sing a number from the show. He shared the script with local Komen foundation officials, and he said they felt that it reflected the experience of breast cancer patients so well that they’re co-promoting the show.įor the first time in San Diego, audiences will have the opportunity to see “Lempicka, A New Musical” in its pre-Broadway tryout at La Jolla Playhouse, with performances beginning June 14. Komen charity runs and interviewed more than 40 breast cancer survivors on their experiences. To ensure accuracy, Madden went to two Susan G. In the play, she falls for Tom, a man who both charms and infuriates her. “Red Jasper” also started out as a romantic comedy, but while creating backstory for his characters, Madden decided that the lead female character, Isadora, would be a breast cancer patient. His first, the romantic comedy “Maybe This Time,” made its premiere at the 2016 San Diego International Fringe Festival and has since been produced in four other cities nationwide. The June 11 performance will benefit the foundation, and Madden has also launched a GoFundMe campaign (“how many wigs can we raise?”) to raise money to buy wigs for women patients who have lost their hair to chemotherapy. “Red Jasper,” which opens Friday at Lamplighters Community Theatre in La Mesa, is also a fundraiser for the Susan G.
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So Madden has written a new play that he hopes will not only entertain audiences and make people laugh but also educate them on what to say and how to act around women who are in a battle for their lives against breast cancer. She and other cancer patients she knew also had to wrestle daily with misconceptions and sometimes unwelcome behavior and comments from well-meaning family and friends. But back when she was sick, she battled more than the disease. San Diego playwright Michael Madden’s sister is a breast cancer survivor.