Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: February 22, 2002 Pinter…. The pauses. …. The famous pauses…. The silence… that speaks volumes. You gotta love 'em…. and you gotta get 'em right. In the Globe's intimate Cassius Carter, we're hemmed in like Harold Pinter's characters, as we watch the unraveling of a tightly woven love triangle involving a husband, his wife, and his best friend -- in the aptly entitled "Betrayal." Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: February 15, 2002 It was the first "trial of the century," but by no means the last. In 1924, Nathan Leopold, age 19 and Richard Loeb, 18, confessed to the murder of a 14 year-old boy. It was a bizarre and terrifying set of circumstances. The killers were excellent students, wealthy and privileged. Loeb was obsessed with crime; Leopold Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: February 1, 2002 Truth is elusive, even illusory. Widely divergent perspectives can make husbands turn on wives and brothers battle sisters. So what happens in the case of oppression? How do individuals and countries react? What are the ramifications of action or inaction? Of compassion or revenge? Ideology or personal integrity? Two potent plays from diverse cultures pose tough questions to which there are no easy Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: January 25, 2002 It's a great time for single women…that's dramatically, not socially speaking. This month, there are four solo female shows in town-- two at San Diego Rep, one at the Fritz and one at North Coast Repertory Theatre. Sisters are doin' it for themselves… "Angel in Between" and "An Evening with Eleanor" may be widely disparate thematically, focusing Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: January 18, 2002 Myths may be thousands of years old, but they still have the power to move us. Choreographer John Malashock has taken three Greek myths and put them into motion as a dance-theater piece, with text by Allan Havis, head of the UCSD playwriting program, and an original score by Lisa Bloom Cohen. You don't have to dig out your Bullfinch mythology book; familiarity Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: January 11, 2002 In my book, Paul Rudnick is the King of Comedy. Only he could make the AIDS era hilarious -- without pandering or offending. He is what you might call 'seriously funny.' "Jeffrey," his 1993 play that he turned into a so-so movie, is a laugh-yourself-sick evening of theater. It's by far the funniest play I saw all year Read More →
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-Pat Launer