Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: June 2, 1997 MUSIC , under and up: Title Song 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 Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: May 28, 1997 Isolation. Alienation. Persecution. A search for identity. The themes are universal, but also particular to minority groups, outsiders, strangers in a strange land. Three very different presentations, from very disparate cultural perspectives, are currently gracing San Diego stages. First, let’s take time for “Tea.” Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: May 21, 1997 It’s a number-jumble. 102 years since the original opening of “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Fifty years since the start of the La Jolla Playhouse and 15 since its resurrection and revival. Forty-eight years since the Oscar Wilde comedy first played at the Playhouse. So why doesn’t it all add Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: May 14, 1997 ‘Tis the season to be... parents. And actor/writer Rick Najera has sent his folks the most charming remembrance -- on stage at the San Diego Repertory Theatre. It’s “A Quiet Love,” a valentine to his late father and a big, fragrant bouquet to his mother. A native San Diegan, Najera has been Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: May 7, 1997 Four years ago, local writer-director Tom Vegh staged his first play, “Friday Night Refugees,” at the Ruse/Marquis Theatre. He’s still obsessed with addiction and recovery, homosexuality and hope, but he’s come a long way, Baby. While his earlier work was long and overly on-the-nose, his latest creation, “Cafe Depresso: Where Prozac, Caffeine Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: April 30, 1997 Chekhov is known as a master of simplicity and compassion. All his great works were motivated by one guiding principle: to show life as it is, without story-telling contrivances or hyperbolic behavior. Despite the tragedy and melodrama the Moscow Art Theatre brought to his plays, Chekhov always thought of them as comedies. Read More →
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-Pat Launer