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“the Pavilion,” “enter The Guardsman,” “a Midsummer Night’s Dream”

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KPBS AIRDATE: October 5, 2001 Timing is everything. What in some other month would be conceived as silly trifles become hilarious diversions in these tenuous, post-disaster days. The Globe Theatres are presenting a triple-header of Theater Fluff, and audiences are eating it up. People seem ready for a laugh, or at least for some mindless escape. So they're enthralled by "Enter the Guardsman," the frothy 1996 musicalization of Read More →

“tarantara! Tarantara!” At Lamb’s Players Theatres

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KPBS AIRDATE: September 14, 2001 SUNG: To the tune of "Modern Major General" It's often problematic to stage plays that are historical They tend to be didactic or abstruse or sophomorical But this one's not cartoonish; it's not 'Lion King' or 'Seussical' In short, a magic Read More →

“fuddy Meers” At North Coast Repertory Theatres

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KPBS AIRDATE: September 7, 2001 Get out your thesaurus and look up "quirky" -- there's flaky and screwball, wacky, buggy, wigged-out… and they all apply to "Fuddy Meers," the darkly absurd comedy which, since its 1999 New York premiere, has become one of the most widely produced plays in the country. There's obviously a huge national hunger for bizarre humor and ever-more dysfunctional families. Now North Coast Rep Read More →

“the Laramie Project” At The La Jolla Playhouse

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KPBS AIRDATE: August 2001 In November, 1998, ten members of Moisés Kaufman's Tectonic Theater Project left New York for Laramie, Wyoming. They set out to uncover the back-story and the aftermath of the monstrous murder of Matthew Shepard, the gay college student who was driven by two young rednecks out to a prairie wasteland, where he was brutally beaten and then tied to a fence where Read More →

“the Boswell Sisters” At The Globe Theatres

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KPBS AIRDATE: August 17, 2001 Okay, here's the premise. A really tight-harmony singing group that ended its career prematurely is getting ready to make a comeback. Sound familiar? It's awfully hard not to make comparisons, no matter how much co-creator Stuart Ross protests. Though he and partner Mark Hampton have been toying with the story of the Boswell Sisters for years, it's impossible not to the think of Read More →

“da” At The Globe Theatres

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KPBS AIRDATE: August 10, 2001 A father dies. A son returns home to clean up the personal effects and close up the family house. But the memories keep coming, flooding his mind with the small and seminal events of his life -- his childhood friend, his first fumbling attempt with the opposite sex, his first job and boss. But mostly, his father, whom he called Da, a stubborn, Read More →