Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: August 05, 2005 Shakespeare believed that summer was for lighter comedies and winter for darker concerns. He even says so in “The Winter’s Tale”: “A sad tale’s best for winter,” young Mamilius tells his mother, the Queen. But the Bard’s penultimate creation really defies description. The tragic first half, set in Sicilia, is dark and brooding. A wildly jealous King falsely accuses Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: July 29, 2005 It’s all about constriction, liberation and self-expression. In “Confessions of a Mormon Boy,” a Salt Lake City son, constrained by heritage and church, struggles to come out of the closet. A painful personal journey leads to honesty, identity and redemption. In “Moonlight and Magnolias,” three men are locked in an office. The result of their tortuous incarceration is… “Gone With the Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 07/29/05 ‘So Here’s the Thing’: It’s ‘Confession’ time: Gay and straight, absurd and sublime. Musical, ecstatic, dramatic, chagrined: Like ‘Moonlight and Magnolias,’ it’s soon Gone With the Wind. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: July 22, 2005 Here’s a dramatic question: Is the victim of abuse obligated to offer mercy and forgiveness? It’s a difficult choice, especially if the wounds refuse to heal. In excellent productions of a classic and a modern play, the audience is discomforted, unnerved and emotionally drained as the protagonists equivocate in their moment of truth – and power. In Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 07/22/05 ‘For Reasons that Remain Unclear,’ ‘The Merchant‘ ‘ …met a Woodcutter’ here And while asking for more, ‘Oliver’ Twist Glimpsed ‘The Accidental Death of an Anarchist.’ Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: July 15, 2005 The summer is heating up on local stages, and there’s every kind of offering from the ridiculous to the sublime. At the Globe’s outdoor Summer Shakespeare Festival, you can have it both ways. Festival artistic director Darko Tresnjak reveals his whimsical and silly side with a vaudeville/slapstick production of “The Comedy of Errors.” 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