Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: April 23, 1997 Two mythical towns, filled with expectation and broken dreams. In dramatically disparate plays, written in radically different styles, Brian Friel creates Ballybeg, and Sam Shepard gives us... Hollywood. Shepard’s “Angel City” was written in 1976, before he won his Pulitzer and Oscar and Palme d’Or at Cannes. He was just a playwright then, Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: April 16, 1997 Rudolfo Anaya has been called “the poet of the barrio,” “the father of Chicano literature in English,” a remarkable storyteller who has written unpretentiously but provocatively about Mexican-American culture and identity. In his first and best-selling 1972 novel, “Bless Me, Ultima,” Anaya examines remembered youth. In his 1990 Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: April 9, 1997 It’s 167 degrees in New York. Buses are melting. The rivers have dried up. Cars spontaneously combust. Four people witnessed a murder, and the world has never been the same. It’s the end of the universe as we know it, or as playwright Phyllis Nagy has depicted it. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: April 2, 1997 MUSIC, under: “Dracula” We do everything we can. We lock our gates, our doors and our windows. We close our books, our eyes, our minds and our hearts. But no matter what we do, invariably, inevitably, insistently, Dracula keeps coming back. They don’t call him Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: March 26, 1997 The grand irony is that, throughout “Uncle Vanya,” the characters obsess about whether they will be remembered fondly in 100 years. Meanwhile, of course, their lives are decaying into nothingness. But never mind that. Here it is, exactly 100 years after Anton Chekhov penned his masterpiece, and yet, rooted as they are in 19th Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: March 19, 1997 I must confess, it’s been a less than satisfying week in the theatre. To be sure, my plate was full. But it was kinda like one of those food festivals, where you think you’re gonna get the best of what every presenter has to offer. There was indeed something tasty about each offering, but at the 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