Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: July 9, 1997 Sam Shepard meets Ethan Frome in “Mud” by Irene Fornes. It’s one of those small, searing, claustrophobic plays that fits so well into the Fritz Theatre. “Mud” features a lethal erotic triangle, a trio of characters trapped by their own poverty, ignorance, desires and destructiveness. Its gritty setting and ghastly ending are Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: July 2, 1997 Tale as old as time: Mega-business makes big bash and big bucks on vintage story. There are so many beauties and beasts in Disney’s bag of toys (and other merchandising items): Can you say Pocahontas-Hercules-and- Hunchback?? But those are cartoonish characters, you may contend. So now, Disney has Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: June 25, 1997 MUSIC up: “Ragtime” It was a new century, a new America. And a new kind of music was marking the beat. Rhythmic. Insistent. Syncopated. The people called it Ragtime. In 1975, E.L. Doctorow published the brilliant Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: June 18, 1997 If your dramatic taste runs to the very darkly comic and the grotesquely absurd, this is a great week to go to the theatre. If that’s not your cup of bile, wait till next week, when “Beauty and the Beast” settles in. Otherwise, you might have some fun with “The Deadly Game” and Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: JUNE 11, 1997 MUSIC up, “Oh Boy” Almost forty years later, the music still sounds good. “Everyday.” “Peggy Sue.” “Maybe Baby.” “Oh Boy.” “Rave On.” Those Buddy Holly knockout hits still rock. And the San Diego Repertory Theatre is rockin’, too. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: June 4, 1997 It’s Terrence McNally Time. Two Tony Award-winning Best Plays back to back. Last week, San Diego Playgoers brought us the national tour of “Master Class,” and now, at Diversionary Theatre, we have the San Diego premiere of “Love! Valour! Compassion!” Ample opportunity to enjoy the wit, wisdom, melodrama and artistic sensibility of 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