Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: December 2, 1992 Season's "Greetings"! The holiday theater season has officially begun. It's been launched with a laugh at North Coast Repertory Theatre, with "Greetings!" by Tom Dudzick, a new playwright with a great sense of humor. His plot-line is silly and predictable and his play is old-fashioned, Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: February 10, 1993 > A critic can get pretty jaded. We see lots of plays, sometimes four or five a week. Some are unwatchable; some are mediocre, and some make you remember why you keep doing this in the first place. "Redwood Curtain" is one of those plays, one that touched me at a very Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: April 6, 1993 (SOUND: “Four Jews in a Room Bitching” from “Falsettos”) The opening number of "Falsettos" says it all about the first act -- four Jews in a room bitching.... bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, funny, funny, funny funny... all the time. Well, not all the time. Because things get pretty maudlin and Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: June 2, 1993 The year was 1942. A play was brought to composer Richard Rodgers, to be made into a musical. It was called "Green Grow the Lilacs," and was set in the Southwest at the turn of the century. It was a lyrical piece, basically concerning the struggle between farmers and ranchers, with, of Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: August 4, 1993 It isn't quite the way Miss Bresbacker taught it to you in junior high school. She never told you that Ben Franklin was a dirty old man. Or that John Adams was an arrogant S.O.B. Or that young newlywed Tom Jefferson could barely stay out of bed long enough to write the Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: September 29, 1993 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a fabulist and a fantasist. The imagination of the Victorian mathematician who, under the pen-name Lewis Carroll, created "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," has never been questioned. But his relationship with the 11 year-old Alice Liddell has. In an odd little off-beat musical, "Once On Summer's Day," the Theatre in Read More →
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-Pat Launer