A retired English banker, who wants nothing more then to tend his dahlia bulbs, has his quiet country life commandeered…
Lynne Friedmann
Lynne Friedmann, based in San Diego, is an award-winning, freelance writer of news, feature articles, and blogs on science, travel, and the arts. Her decades-long passion for theater was sparked as a teen when the Inner City Cultural Center commandeered classroom curricula by bringing classic plays to urban high schools in Los Angeles.
A break room in a Detroit auto plant functions as more than a place to store lunch, drink coffee, and…
Misplaced pride leads a man to cast out his only son. Fifteen years later, aching regret leads to a desperate…
Astronomers are heralding this year’s Perseid meteor shower as a “once-in-a-decade outburst.” Outbursts of a different sort reign supreme in…
The Moxie Theatre caps off its current season with “Ruthless! The Musical,” a high-octane, campy cocktail that is equal parts…
Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility,” having delighted generations on the page and screen, is now a captivating musical making its…
An Orthodox Jew, a Muslim, and a born-again Christian meet in the woods. This isn’t the setup to a joke,…
In the 1980s, in an all-girls Catholic school in rural Rwanda, young Alphonsine (Cashae Monya, utterly believable as one in…
Two Irish farming families, whose generations have lived predictably side by side for more than a century,…
The story begins in the year 2039 in the normally bone-dry Australian Outback town of Alice Springs; now…
I submit that the two most powerful words in the English language are: what if. Eight years ago,…
Organize a special event lately? Not a wedding or a charity fundraiser but a midweek,…
“Up Here” is billed as a musical comedy with a lot on its mind. Perhaps it has a bit too…