Monthly archive May, 1996

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine May 1996 Jack's back. The peripatetic artistic director of the Old Globe Theatre, Jack O'Brien, is back in town -- with a vengeance. Flush from the Broadway opening of “Getting Away with Murder”, the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth comedy thriller, O'Brien has taken on the biggest project of his life, and that's saying a lot. Having directed 50 Read More →

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine May 1996 Three different countries. Shared language. Disparate cultures. But the same positive response to “Valley Song”. "As they say in the vernacular," declares 63 year-old playwright Athol Fugard, "I'm on a roll."   Over the past year, in Johannesburg, New York and London, Read More →