Put a Little Drama in your Life
Pat Launer KPBS-FM Airdate: March 30, 2007 Leave the children snug in their beds. The puppets in “the Long Christmas Ride Home” aren’t kid-friendly cuties, though they are kids. The life-sized bunraku puppets were written into the play by Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel, to stand in for the vulnerable, easily manipulated children in a traumatized family. She specified that they shouldn’t Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 03/23/07 The Adoption Project is Taking Flight While Beauty has a Beastly night. THE SHOW: The Adoption Project: Triad , written by Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: March 23, 2007 They say there are two sides to every story… but there are three sides to this one. “The Adoption Project: Triad” triangulates the issue of adoption, taking a woman’s eye view from three perspectives: the adopted daughter, the adoptive mother and the birth mother. The writer, Kimber Lee, is a Korean adoptee who spent three years researching and interviewing folks who’d been Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: March 16, 2007 Everybody needs some bawdy. And that’s just what you get in “Restoration Comedy,” the latest work by the award-winning San Francisco playwright Amy Freed. She conflated two popular comic works from late 17th century England, Love’s Last Shift, or Virtue Rewarded, and its sequel, The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger. Both were written in 1696, during the Restoration, which came just after the Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 03/16/07 There is no more disparate presentation Than Mud and the Comedy, Restoration, Toss in the wackiness of the Geek And Menopause makes it a hot-flash week. THE SHOW: Restoration Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: March 09, 2007 Two comedies set in the 1880s; two writers, separated by a half-century, paying homage to the plays of the past. One is a bona fide chestnut; the other, a modern warhorse-wannabe. “The Matchmaker,” by Thornton Wilder, is an American classic, begun in 1938, revised in 1955, and ultimately the famous source for the megahit musical, “Hello, Dolly!” Read More →
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-Pat Launer