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“RAIN” at The Old Globe

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 4/8/16 RUN DATES: 3/24/16 - 5/1/16 VENUE: The Old Globe In adapting a piece of literature, there’s an obligation to maintain the spirit of the original. W. Somerset Maugham’s riveting 1921 short story, “Rain” (originally titled “Miss Thompson”), has certainly provided fertile ground for adapters: three films, and an aborted musical, called “Sadie Thompson,” created in 1944 with Ethel Merman in mind. Now, along come composer/lyricist Michael John La Chiusa and librettist Sybille Pearson, with a Read More →

“lysistrata” At Sdsu

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KPBS AIRDATE: OCTOBER 27, 2000 It's World Peace Week, and the Internet is flooded with emails calling for women to come forward and assert their nonviolent natures to help resolve the conflict in the Middle East. There couldn't be a better time for "Lysistrata," the 2500 year-old comedy about women withholding sex until the their men end the Peloponnesian War. Read More →

“as Bees In Honey Drown” At North Coast Repertory Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: JUNE 8, 2001 "As Bees in Honey Drown" attracted a big buzz Off Broadway as a darkly funny, comedy, a slyly cynical commentary on our desperate desire for hype, fame and fortune, at any cost. Faust meets Auntie Mame (on speed) in this riff on youth, creativity, celebrity and the art of manipulation. Playwright Douglas Carter Beane has a Read More →

“pageant” At North Coast Repertory Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: March 15, 2002 It's got taffeta, tears and tiaras. Big hair, hot talent. And beautiful babes. Nope, it isn't "Beehive," but you'd be hard-pressed to tell those gals from these without the proverbial scorecard. In fact, some audience members even do get a scorecard -- to vote on the evening's winner: Miss Glamouresse of 2002. It's wild, it's musical, it's outrageous -- it's "Pageant." Read More →

Theatre Review: “imaginary Friends” At The Globe Theatre

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It was fertile but rocky ground to plow. Two fascinating, larger-than-life women. Literary lionesses. Lifelong social-political-personal rivals. Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy. There was just one problem: they'd only been in the same room together once or twice in their lives. Acclaimed screenwriter/director Nora Ephron ("When Harry Met Sally," "Sleepless in Seattle," "You've Got Mail") remained enthralled and undaunted. She'd written about smart, strong women before (Karen Silkwood in Read More →

“ Uncle Vanya ” By The La Jolla Playhouse

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KPBS AIRDATE: June 13, 2003 It's a banner time for local theater. Of course, we're all still cheering Jack O'Brien's spectacular win of the Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical, the delectable, irresistible "Hairspray," which will be coming to San Diego on tour next summer. And the La Jolla Playhouse, in the same week it opened its new season, broke ground on a Read More →