Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: DECEMBER 24, 1999 He's mean, he's green, and he's back, in all his Grinchy glory. Yes, it's the grouch the Whos hate to hate, the shaggy, musical answer to "Bah! Humbug!" "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" returns San Diego to wow the kiddies -- and their folks, in this successful second edition of the Globe holiday sellout. It's a quick, 75-minute, intermissionless sprint Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: DECEMBER 17, 1999 Talk about the holiday spirit… how about four of them? That would be the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future… and old Marley, who "was dead, to begin with." This month, you can get spirited away to the 24th incarnation of "A Christmas Carol" at the San Diego Repertory Theatre. The cast of characters is Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: DECEMBER 10, 1999 Tired of the same old Christmas classics? Well, there are three new kids in town, holiday confections written by local playwrights. Each has an uplifting theme, a bevy of beautiful voices, and at least one delightful child actor. In "Amelia's Sugarplum Nightmare," it's 13 year-old Kelsey Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: DECEMBER 3, 1999 Christmastime, 1939. Atlanta is all a-flutter about the opening of "Gone With the Wind." No one is going to let that nasty little moustached man thousands of miles away ruin their holiday with some silly invasion of Poland. The young girls are much more concerned with who's going to escort them on "The Last Night Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine December 1999 You could call it luck, pluck and virtue. Along with her prodigious talent and moxie, singer/actor/dancer/director/choreographer/composer/playwright Leigh Scarritt has often been in the right place at the right time. And she puts a lot of stock in her faith. Scarritt was born in New London, Connecticut; as Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: NOVEMBER 19, 1999 As a constant reminder, I have a magnet on my refrigerator that says: "90 percent of all families are dysfunctional; the other 10 percent are in denial." It must've been written by someone from the Fritz Theater. That organization has featured more dysfunctional families than the House of Atreus, AKA the Oedipus connection. 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