Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: April 25, 2003 The world is a pretty unwelcoming place. And love isn't always a safe refuge. At least, that's how it seems to the graduate student playwrights whose works are being featured in the 4th annual UCSD New Play Festival. Only one of the five world premieres has "Desperados" in its title, but the term could apply to just about all of them. The Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: April 18, 2003 Live onstage, at a theater near you -- Barbie and Carmen Miranda! Well, not together. And not quite the originals. The impossibly-bodied Barbie was born in 1959 and the Brazilian fruit-wearing Bombshell died in 1955, but she's making a drag comeback at two local theaters. Though the show at Diversionary is a Latino comedy, Carmen is done funnier in the gay musical Read More →
“ KNOWING CAIRO ” at The Globe Theatres & “ FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIRE DE LUNE ” at Vantage Theatre & “ DEPORTING THE DIVAS ” at Diversionary Theatre KPBS AIRDATE: April 11, 2003 In the heart and on the stage, love is a fickle, unpredictable business. At three different theaters, folks of varied ages, customs and cultures battle with their Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: April 04, 2003 If I want watch a sitcom, I turn on the TV. Even during wartime, I want more than mindless psychobabble at the theater. As a friend put it after the nearly 3-hour marathon of the Globe's new "Loves and Hours," "The show is light on the Loves, heavy on the Hours." This world premiere smacks of masturbatory mid-life Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: March 28, 2003 She was Al Capone's favorite singer; she probably made his sloe gin fizz. She jammed with the best of them: Louis Armstrong, Eubie Blake, Fats Waller. She was the toast of Chicago, then New York, London and Paris. But for 20 years, she stayed out of the spotlight and off the stage, becoming a devoted nurse. Then in 1977, blues legend Read More →
Published in Gay and Lesbian Times March 21, 2003 Put sex in the title and you're sure to draw sellout crowds. This is at least the fourth time the homeless-and-much-missed Fritz Theatre has mounted "Sexual Perversity," David Mamet's first Off Broadway endeavor, penned in 1976. Artistic director Duane Daniels has poked and prodded, stroked and penetrated the piece, but he's come back to cross-gender casting, which is Read More →
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-Pat Launer