Eva Trieger is an educator and a freelance writer specializing in coverage of the arts.
By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California — Sure, we’ve all seen actors warming up by reciting tongue twisters or singing scales to loosen up their vocal cords, doing yoga poses or lunges to limber up and get their creative juices flowing, but watching hours of squirrel videos? Studiously ogling nature documentaries of squirrels eating, sparring, and […]
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — What a perfect play to kick off summer! The Roustabouts, San Diego’s newest and most adventurous theater company, celebrates Season 2 with a charming show that honors the Bard and modern audiences. “Romeo, Romeo and Juliet” tracks the lives of two summer stock theater actors and their director, revealing
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By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — The holiday of Pesach begins with us recalling our past, and closes with our pledge to the future. The same holds true for In Every Generation, a new play written by Ali Viterbi and directed by Gabrielle Hoyt. The reading took place before a nearly full house at
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eva Trieger CORONADO, California — Noises Off, the British play-within-a-play, was conceived by writer Michael Frayn in 1970, as he watched Vanessa Redgrave from the wings, perform in a show he authored. What he discovered was that the play was much funnier from off-stage and so he created this clever idea for his British
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By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — A delighted North Coast Repertory Theater audience watched in amazement Tuesday night, as Frank Ferrante became funnyman Groucho Marx. Before our very eyes, Ferrante painted on his mustache, donned rimmed glasses and adopted the familiar Noo Yawk accent in his lightning quick banter. The ninety-minute show recalled Marx
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Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — While Professor Harold Hill may have been a part of Tanna Frederick’s formative years, the college graduate who left Iowa, was bound for glory in New York or Los Angeles where she just knew stardom was awaiting her. However, her road to Los Angeles wasn’t paved with gold, and
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By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — While most kids are reprimanded for “acting up,” not so in the Ellenstein household, where David and his younger brother, Peter, were encouraged to follow in their father’s footsteps. When I suggested that perhaps acting was in his genes, David quipped, “and in my corduroys.” I wanted to know
By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — As we turn a page on the calendar, the holiday season is fast approaching, and with it, one of the season’s most beloved movies is having a revival. A Christmas Story LIVE! will air on Fox December 17th. Yes, you recall this story, Americana at its Wonder Years best!
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Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO– The Roustabouts continue to make their debut season a winner. The trio opened with Margin of Error, a dramatic and emotional ride, and continues with Withering Heights, a delightfully, over-the-top hilarious adaptation of Emily Bronte’s classic. But, don’t expect a rehashing of the nineteenth century novel you read in tenth grade.
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eva Trieger CORONADO, California –Little ushers in a summer theater season quite so well as a fantasy featuring triumph over evil, new and lasting friendships, and sinister suspense, all bathed in sticky sweet ripe peach juice. That is precisely what the partnership of Pickwick Players and Coronado Playhouse is serving up for the next
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By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — Craving an omelet, or a cuppa Joe, served up with sarcasm or perhaps a smile? You know how it is when you stop in at your favorite breakfast joint, and don’t even have to say, “I’ll have the usual.” The waitress knows your signature dish, your daily habits,
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Have Mother, Will Travel by Claire and Mia Fontaine, William Morrow 2013, 978-0-06-168842-3, 309 pgs., paperback $14.99. By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — Trolling through the stacks of my local branch of the San Diego County library, I was hungry for a good read over a break. I needed something to take me away from
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eva TriegerBy Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — What do you get when you combine a fabulous writer, a few brilliant directors and amazing actors? A theater company called The Roustabouts that promises to deliver the best our town has to offer. The theme of this new troupe is “an explosion of ideas. We want to inspire
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California –“Like a proud mama, showing off her new baby,” crowed Chris Fink, in response to my query about how she felt as this year’s Chairperson for the San Diego Jewish Film Festival. The 27th annual festival runs from February 8-19, and boasts films from twenty one different countries,