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: November 26, 1997 If you’re feeling a little constrained and constricted by family obligations as the holiday season begins, consider going to the theater to experience some real confinement and oppression. One current offering is historical and the other is fictional, but they’ll both make you feel incredibly unfettered and free. Guaranteed. “Mad Forest” is set Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: AUGUST 12, 1998 It’s a legendary relationship. You’ve heard about it, read about it, seen it on T-shirts: The indivisible bond between men and duct tape. But for the Improbable Theatre company, perhaps the gummy beloved was too... dark, not dramatic enough, not... transparent enough. So they wrapped their piece in Read More →
“THE FEVER” at the Fritz Theater and “BEDROOM FARCE” at the Old Globe KPBS AIRDATE: APRIL 14, 1999 To bastardize the Bard, it’s ‘Much Ado about Very Little’ and ‘Little Ado About Quite a Bit.’ That’s my take on “Bedroom Farce” at the Globe and “The Fever” at the Fritz. The Globe has gone back to another of its perennial favorites – the acidic Brit-com writer, Alan Ayckbourn. “Bedroom Farce” is a 20 year old Read More →
Playwrights Project at the Cassius Carter Centre Stage KPBS SUBMISSION DATE: NOVEMBER 13, 1999 The settings range from the South in the 1840s to somewhere between this life and the next. The writers range from age 13-18. The quality ranges, too. It's the annual presentation of the winning productions from the statewide competition of Read More →
PAT LAUNER THEATER REVIEW TIMES OF SAN DIEGO 10/7/14 Talk about your ambitious projects! Robert Barry Fleming wrote the play, “Scott Joplin’s New Rag,” and plays all the characters – not only talking almost nonstop for 70 minutes, but singing (a bit), dancing (impressively -- including moonwalks and hip hop moves), reciting rap poetry and playing piano: 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