Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: JUNE 9, 1999 Memory and nostalgia. Slippery sisters. When you try to pin them down, they dance away. And when you bring them into the light, they turn out to look not at all as you imagined them. This is the dilemma of Lillian Garrett-Groag and her theatrical reminiscence, “The Magic Fire.” Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: JUNE 2, 1999 Whatever happened to the fourth wall? There used to be some distance and separation between actors and audience. But now, more than ever, the players come right out and talk to us directly. As if we’re friends. As if it’s as natural as yogurt that hundreds of us have come to visit. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: MAY 26, 1999 MUSIC: up with Dizzie Gillespie jazz number If you’d like to feel the voice, the rhythm and the beat of the African American community, the time is now and the place is the theater. We were just visited by the national touring Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: MAY 17, 1999 How much politics and philosophy do you like stirred into your comedy? If you prefer your humor straight up, without a twist… curl up with a frozen sitcom. But if you like to be shaken -- and stirred -- imbibe this: the San Diego Rep’s “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” and “Strange Bedfellows” at the Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: MAY 12, 1999 When my husband got his MBA, he was inducted into the Business Honor Society, for which he was required to take an oath, among other things, to be “earnest in all endeavors.” I was appalled, frantically mouthing from across the room, “Don’t say it!” After all, what could be worse than eternal earnestness? Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: MAY 5, 1999 It's galvanizing. Apocalyptic. Monumental. The most acclaimed and exalted play of several decades, a drama that defines our generation, our country, and the tail-end of our century. “Angels in America” is a big, big piece about Big Ideas, and it’s a mammoth undertaking for a tiny company. But the plucky 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