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THE ROUSTABOUTS PRESENT:


WITHERING HEIGHTS Diversionary Theatre is teaming


up with Roustabouts Theatre to presentWithering Heights,a comic gay retelling of Englishwoman Emily Bronte’s famed novelWuthering Heights, fromSunday, June 11 to Sunday, July 9. Title characters Heathcliff and Catherine inhabit the Bronte’s moors as you’ve never seen them before, as portrayed by Omri Schein and Phil Johnson, who perform all fourteen roles in the play. An action-packed tour de force, with two character actors set against the most famous romantic novel of all time in a Gothic whirlwind love story, with a very new twist. Decades of Diversionary, also


takes place onFriday, June 16 at the Moniker Warehouse, 705 16th Street. It’s a fabulous celebration of the ‘80s (‘80s-inspired, festive attire is encouraged) and part of Diversionary’s ongoing fundraising efforts. Come celebrate the decade that gave birth to what is now the third oldest LGBT theatre in the country, as well as commemorating the power and resilience of our community. Mo Gaffney (star of BBC hit showAbsolutely Fabulous) will emcee, along with a special concert performance from the Tony Award-winning musical,Falsettos. The evening includes the presentation of the inaugural Fritz Klein Artistic Award, to theatre favorite Shana Wride and Fritz Klein, Rob Granat and Al Mazur (all in honor of the late Dr. Fritz Klein, longtime Diversionary supporter and Board Trustee). For tickets and more information, call 619.220.0097 or go todiversionary.org.


DAMN YANKEES Based on Douglass Wallop’s novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant,


San Diego Musical Theatre’sDamn Yankees is a devilishly clever musical comedy about America’s favorite pastime—you guessed it—baseball! Here are the basics for this Faustian sports classic: In order to save his favorite team, fanatical baseball fan Joe Boyd sells his soul to the devil. Classic tunes such as “Whatever Lola Wants” and “Heart,” accompany our protagonist during his journey to save the team…and his soul. “I was raised on baseball. When I wasn’t on a field or watching a game, I was in a theatre,” said Director James Vasquez. “They share the same basic principles; sharp and specific team work, being on your toes at all times, and a whole lot of fun. So, a musical comedy about America’s favorite past-time?! Put me in, Coach! I’m continually drawn to the underdog stories.”Damn Yankees runs fromFriday, June 2 through Sunday, June 18 at the Spreckels Theatre in Downtown San Diego. For tickets and more information, call 858.560.5740 or go tosdmt.org.


THE IMAGINARY INVALID Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known by most by his stage name


JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH Coronado Playhouse is once again partnering with Santee’s Pickwick


Players for the Tony-Award nominated song-writing team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’sJames and the Giant Peach (Dogfightand the TV hit Smash!) fromFriday, June 9 through Sunday, July 2. James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He’s very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. At the end of the garden, a peach starts to grow…And grow and grow. Inside that peach are seven very unusual insects who are all waiting to take James on a magical adventure of enormous proportions. But where will they go in their giant peach and what will happen to the horrible aunts if they stand in their way? There’s only one way to find out … For tickets and more information, call 619.435.4856 or go tocoronadoplayhouse.com.


Molière, was a 17th-century French playwright and actor, considered by many to be one of Western literature’s greatest comedic writers. Born into a prosperous bourgeois family, he studied at the Collège de Clermont (now Lycée Louis-le-Grand) and through his aristocratic connections, his brilliant plays (His best-known works includeThe Misanthrope, The School for Wives, Tartuffe, The Miser, The Imaginary InvalidandThe Bourgeois Gentleman) and productions earned him a place at Louis XIV’s court. San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre is teaming up once again with the acclaimed Fiasco Theater, who thrilled audiences last year with their reimagining of the classic Into the Woods, for one of Molière’s outrageously funny classics,The Imaginary Invalid. Hypochondriac Argan wants his daughter to marry a doctor so he can save on his medical bills. But she’s in love with someone else. Soon the whole household joins in her madcap scheme to save true love and give Argan’s doctors a dose of their own medicine.The Imaginary Invalid runsthrough Sunday, July 2 at the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre inside the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Look too for the beginning of


The Globe’s summer Shakespeare season with Robert Sean Leonard (TV’sHouse, Globe’sPygmalion) in the title role of one of The Bard’s towering cycle of history plays, King Richard II, fromSunday, June 11 through Sunday, July 15 on the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre, also in Balboa Park. For tickets and more information, call 619.234.5623 or go totheoldglobe.org.


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RAGE monthly | JUNE 2017


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