Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: JULY 6, 2001 The movie achieved cult status, and so did the TV show. But I don't think the play will ever join those ranks. "M*A*S*H" lives on in the hearts and minds of many, and if you're missing it (though the 11-year series will probably be in reruns forever), you can catch a 30 year-old, watered-down version of the original book by Dr. Richard Hornberger Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: JUNE 30, 2001 "The Collected Works of Billy the Kid" is a study in contrasts: a folk hero who was a cold-blooded killer; an adventure story of young men who shoot folks for fun; a tightrope walk between sanity and lunacy; a tale of ultra-violence told in lyrical poetry; the rough, gritty life of the Old West sung in sweet, sentimental country/folk songs. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: JUNE 29, 2001 There's Theater of the Absurd and there's theater that is absurd. Choose your poison. Sledgehammer Theatre offers us "The Chairs," and Diversionary is throwing a "Psycho Beach Party." Normally, I'd go for the classic……But for fun and laughs and great performances, I'd definitely opt for the crazy spoof over the ponderous metaphor. French-Romanian playwright Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: JUNE 22, 2001 The play is a Shakespearean parody/comedy/mystery. Its title is a quintuple entendre. It's a pun, of course, confusing the Beard with the Bard of Avon. It refers perhaps, to Shakespeare's face-hair, though in the piece, he's less concerned with his sprouted face than his balding pate. But a beard is also the barb of an arrow, a bold opposition and a mask, a front, Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: JUNE 15, 2001 They really are the perfect neighbors. The men live right next door to the women. The guys are obsessed with art, the ladies with literature. The two houses explode with energy, friendship, love, language and often, Big Ideas. The Globe couldn't have picked more felicitous dramatic companions -- "Vita and Virginia" and "Art." Both are magnificently designed. In the Cassius Carter, Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: JUNE 8, 2001 "As Bees in Honey Drown" attracted a big buzz Off Broadway as a darkly funny, comedy, a slyly cynical commentary on our desperate desire for hype, fame and fortune, at any cost. Faust meets Auntie Mame (on speed) in this riff on youth, creativity, celebrity and the art of manipulation. Playwright Douglas Carter Beane has a 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