Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: April 23, 2004 If you want to get a glimpse of the theatrical future, check out the Baldwin New Play Festival at UCSD. Each year, the Festival features world premiere productions written, directed and designed by the talented, nationally-acclaimed MFA students at UCSD. These are no green neophytes; each of the trainees in these prestigious, specialized, 3-year graduate programs comes in with an already-impressive Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 04/21/04 "What's new?" you say, in a theatrical daze; The UCSD Baldwin Fest of New Plays. This year's a doozy. Oh Baby! Oh, Mama! Well-wrought comedy, irony and drama. The UCSD Baldwin New Play Festival started off with an incredibly Big Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: April 16, 2004 Fame -- everyone wants it, few get it, and it weighs heavily on those who have it. The price of success features prominently in two vastly different plays: the Greek drama "Oedipus at Colonus" and the 20th century tragicomedy, "The House of Blue Leaves." In one, a man can't get back to his homeland; in the other, a woman never Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 04/14/04 Oedipus dies, Antigone grieves, Bananas may be committed to a House of Blue Leaves. Exiles, defectors, dreamers in distress: All pawns in the great, cosmic game of Chess. 'You say EDipus and I say EEdipus'…. Scholar/translator Marianne Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: April 09, 2004 How do you like your drama? High-flying acrobatics or interior turmoil? Motion or stasis. In one corner, there's Cirque du Soleil's eye-popping, jaw-dropping "Varekai." But for a quiet night of social-political commentary, you won't want to miss "Still Life" at New Village Arts. You know all about the Cirque; outrageous acts, incredible costumes, little plot Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 04/07/04 Motion or stasis; You specify: Be moved by 'Still Life' Or take wing with 'Varekai.' Just the other day on NPR, I heard two war vets being interviewed. The one from Vietnam just couldn't get past what he'd done, how he'd 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