Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: April 28, 2006 Relationships can be trying, whether they’re marital or professional. And titles can be double entendres. The Old Globe is offering a hard-hitting double-header: two works of word play, written nearly a century apart, featuring liaisons that are either comical/fanciful or factual/historical. Best known for novels like “Of Human Bondage,” W. Somerset Maugham set a record in 1908, Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 04/28/06 Trying tells us just a little About former justice Francis Biddle, While the Baldwin New Plays tell us a lot About what’s on young minds – and what is not. THE SHOW: Trying, Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 04/21/06 Beauty’s not as simple as Black and White Though Gibson Girl tries to get it right, And Rehearsal for Murder has its mystery way With Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: April 14, 2006 Insider talk can sometimes feel exclusionary. If you’re not a member of ‘the club,’ all the in-jokes and jargon can leave you baffled and bewildered. But when insider theater is done well, it makes you feel right at home. And if you’re attentive, you can learn a lot. Right now, on local stages, don’t be afraid to dive right Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 04/14/06 A jazzy Side Man makes family strife A man is cowed by his Constant Wife While Forbidden Broadway’s at riotous play Spoofing the shows on The Great White Way. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: April 07, 2006 Losing and finding. Flying and crash-landing. Mothers and daughters, sanity and madness. The themes pile up in Ellen McLaughlin’s other-worldly “Tongue of a Bird.” The playwright was best known as the angel who crashed through the ceiling in the Broadway production of “Angels in America.” Still soaring from that experience, apparently, she wrote a flying woman into her 1999 play. Fortunately, Read More →
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-Pat Launer