Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: December 12, 1991 Forget the huge, festive tree with the bright presents underneath. Forget the velvety Victorian costumes. This is Sledgehammer's take on "A Christmas Carol," so nothing will be anything like what you'd expect. There are yard-high hats and loincloths, dancing food and a giant clock with no numbers that glides above the stage. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: February 19, 1992 One thought kept running through my mind, all during the female "Odd Couple" -- why'd you do it, Neil? The original male version, which opened in 1965, became Neil Simon's most popular play, spawning a movie and a TV spinoff, endless reruns and a million laughs. So why, twenty years later, did Simon feel Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: April 23, 1992 There's irony in the air. Consider the life and the work of Austrian playwright Odön von Horváth. An important and popular dramatist in the Weimar era, his plays were banned by the Nazis and were virtually buried for forty years. This B-Attitudes production marks the American professional Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: June 17, 1992 If linguistic legerdemain is your domain, you're gonna love "Terminal Hip." If you're wowed by word play, and lust over language games, you might just be able to swallow Mac Wellman's lingfest. But if you like your sentences grammatical, and you like a logical progression of words, thoughts, and ideas, not to mention Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: August 20, 1992 It starts with a tantalizing island drumbeat and a flash of lightning. A little girl is frightened by the tropical storm, and to calm her, ten adults act out the story of Ti-Moune, telling the child what happened "Once on this Island ." The whole buoyant musical is framed as an Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: October 15, 1992 John Bradshaw tells us that 95% of all families are dysfunctional. So what's a functional family? Well, "Molly & Maze," sort of. It's a mother-daughter arrangement. Single parent family. Always has been. Sure, the mother obsesses about her daughter. She calls Read More →
“San Diego is a hotbed of theater. Every year, I see 200-250 productions. This is fertile ground for new work. In addition to the prodigious local talent, theatermakers from around the country come here to premiere their latest creations. San Diego sends more shows to Broadway than nearly any other city in the U.S.”
-Pat Launer