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KINKY BOOTS “The sex is in the heel…” I bet that’s a song title and line that you never thought you’d hear!Kinky Boots is unique because of it and for so many other reasons! Based on true events (who knew),Kinky Boots is the story of Charlie Price, a man who inherits a shoe factory from his father. To save the family business, he forms a unique partnership with a local cabaret and drag performer by the name of Lola and together the unlikely pair create a line of high-heeled boots...And in the process, redefine what family looks like. With music and lyrics by Pop phenom, Cindy Lauper and book by Broadway bon-mont, Harvey Fierstein, the play is based on the 2005 British film of the same name, written by Geoff Deane. At the same time, fiercely funny and deeply touching, the show features songs “Not My Father’s Son,” “The History of Wrong Guys” and “Hold Me In Your Heart.”New York Times critic Melena Ryzik wrote, “Though there are plenty of hooky, rousing numbers, the emotional heart ofKinky Boots is several ballads about the weight of parental expectations.” PlayingThursday, March 9 through Sunday, March 12,Kinky Bootsis at the San Diego Civic Theatre in Downtown San Diego. For tickets and more information, call 619.570.1100 or go to broadwaysd.com.


HATER’S ROAST: THE SHADY TOUR RuPaul’s Drag Race is the gift that just keeps on a’giving! Not only are the newest,


latest and greatest queens from Season 9 talkin’ trash and layin’ shade between March’s pages of The Rage Monthly, there are, dare I say it, “Seasoned queens of a later model” landing right here in Downtown San Diego! Hater’s Roast: The Shady Tour converges— maybe congeals is a better word—on stage at the Balboa TheatreThursday, March 23, with as they say, “Zingers and stingers from politics to love, to social media, anything is fair game...Even their sisters on stage. An evening of hilarious comedy, the shady way!” The spitfire, queen roasters include: Bob the Drag Queen, Acid Betty, Trixie Mattel, Kim Chi, Latrice Royale, Jinkx Monsoon, Phi Phi O’Hara and Ginger Minj. Presented by Mur- ray & Peter, doors at 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m. and there’s a 20-minute intermission, for you to recover your senses, get your drink on and grab some merch! For tickets and more information, call 619.570.1100 or go tosandiegotheatres.org.


INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH Based on the national bestselling book, Into the Beautiful


North: A Novel, by Luis Alberto Urrea, playwright Karen Zacarías’ adaptation tells a humorous, fast paced story as seen through the eyes of a daring young woman. Seeking fortune, all the men of the sleepy Mexican village of Tres Camarones have left town for the USA. Those remaining are being threatened by Bandidos as they attempt a takeover of the defenseless town. 19-year-old Nayeli has a flash of inspiration duringThe Magnificent Seven, showing inside the local cinema and along with her gay confidant Tacho and her goth best friend Vampi at her side, she sets herself to an epic quest: To search out the town’s menfolk in the U.S.A., smuggle them back across the border and save their beloved town! A Rolling World Premiere, sponsored by the National New Play Network, the country’s alliance of nonprofit theaters that champion the development, production, and continued life of new plays, Into The Beautiful North runs fromThursday, March 30 through Sunday, April 23 at the Lyceum Theatre. For tickets and more information about this San Diego Repertory production, call 619.544.1000 or go tosdrep.org.


NEXT FALL Beginning in March, OnStage Playhouse, the only live community theatre in Chula Vista is taking on Geoffrey Nauffts’ stirring play,Next Fall, fromFriday, March 3 through Saturday, March 25. It’s the Tony Award-winning story about what makes a family and how those “ties that bind” hold together when tested in the fires of life. Adam and Luke seem like a classic case for opposites attract: Older, neurotic Adam is an atheist, impulsive, Luke is a struggling actor and a devout Christian.Next Fallportrays the ups and downs of this unlikely couple’s five-year relationship with sharp humor and unflinching honesty. Longtime differences collide when Luke is involved in a critical accident and family and friends descend upon the couple, forcing a stand-off fraught by opposing views on faith and family. Timely and touching, it’s a beautiful play about fundamental truths regarding how we love people in our lives, both in spite of and because of who they are. For tickets and more information, call 619.422.7787 or go to onstageplayhouse.info.


THE BLAMELESS How would you handle one of life’s most horrible tragedies, the death of your child? If that wasn’t demanding enough a challenge, how would you handle the father whose son was responsible for the death of that child?The Blameless is an incred- ibly moving look at the power of family and what compassion means during the most extraordinary of circumstances. Developed as a part of The Old Globe’s 2016 New Voices Festival and directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, the synopsis of the play reads as follows, “The boisterous Garcia family has always tackled their days with warmth, humor and tough love. But today is no ordinary day. Struggling to recover from a painful event in their past, they must find a way to hold everything together as they welcome to dinner the one man who might help them heal…Or reopen their wounds.”The Blameless runsthrough Sunday, March 26 at the Old Globe Theatre in Balboa Park. For tickets and more information, call 619.234.5623 or go to theoldglobe.org.


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