Eric George Tauber

Eric George Tauber

Eric George Tauber is an actor as well as a freelance writer specializing in coverage of the arts.

‘The Imaginary Invalid’ is therapeutic

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — If laughter is the best medicine, then the Fiasco’s Theatre’s Imaginary Invalid is therapeutic. The house resounded with bursts and howls throughout the show. I remember the Fiasco when they brought Into the Woods to the Old Globe in 2014. Their name comes from a convention in Commedia […]

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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Sharp wit for heavy subjects in ‘The Revolutionists’

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — One of my favorite sketches from The Muppets features Miss Piggy dressed as Marie-Antoinette. The pigs are arrayed in French Rococo finery singing “Stayin’ Alive.” But then, the guillotine looms ominously behind a window. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX284L12Rg0) As Americans, we embrace the French Revolution’s ideals of liberté, égalite and fraternité.

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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Whoop and Howl at ‘The Old Man and the Old Moon’

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — The Pigpen Theatre Co. has come to the Old Globe with their epic sea shanty, The Old Man and the Old Moon. They hoisted the sails with some bluegrass, complete with a banjo, fiddle, accordion and an electric bass, setting our toes tapping, hands clapping and faces grinning

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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

“Awake and Sing!” is like life… only more so

Oh, let your dead revive! Let corpses arise! Awake and sing for joy, You who dwell in the dust… (Isa. 26:19, JPS Tanakh) By Eric George Tauber CARLSBAD, California — When I first read the press release for Awake and Sing! it rang a bell, something from a college textbook about its significance in the history

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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Hearts break together for ‘The Blameless’

“Every time I read this play, I feel less alone.” –GT Upchurch  (Performances Magazine, p.11) By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Meet the Garcia family. They don’t discuss things in the Garcia house. They yell. And the exclamation points are followed by tense, pregnant silences. Today, Mama is fit to be tied. Her daughter Theresa

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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

The ‘Body and Soul’ of American jazz

“There’s no bum like a ‘pretty good artist’ and I think you’re ‘pretty good.’” –Johnny Green’s father By Eric George Tauber LA JOLLA, California –The 2017 San Diego Jewish Film Festival has come and gone. With eighty different screenings at five venues –with filmmakers traveling from as far as Hungary and Israel- and selling more

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Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

World of mystery at Fleet Science Center

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Just the other day, I was explaining the term “spoiler” to my ESL students. If you wrote a who-done-it called “The Butler did it,” no one would read it because it’s the mental gymnastics it takes to untangle a web of intrigue that makes it worthwhile. Now at

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Closeted composer suffered in Czarist Russia

“Nothing is perfect in Nature. Nature is perfect imperfection.” -PI Tchaikovsky By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO–When Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky listened to birdsong, he noticed that they were just a little less than perfect, but these imperfections made them more beautiful. And so he threw some “wrong” notes into his arpeggios, making them more natural

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Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast