Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: September 4, 1996 If you’re a lover of language, listen up. You only have a little more time to catch two plays that make a ritual of the spoken word, that invigorate and elevate the cliché of everyday speech to an art form. First, “Happy Days,” by the Nobel Prize-winning Samuel Beckett, whose plays have a long-standing reputation Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: August 28, 1996 There’s one more elephant still lingering in town -- at least for another week or so. Well, it’s not totally an elephant, only from the neck up. That would be the Hindu god Ganesha, and he is, as advertised, “A Perfect Ganesh.” Ganesha, the Lord of Obstacles, Prince of Fortune, has a jeweled Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: August 21, 1996 What made the musical “Hair” work so well in the sixties was that it sprang from group cohesion and a melded mentality. That’s just what makes some of Diversionary’s 90s update work, too. But instead of carrying signs and screaming mottoes like “Hell no! We won’t go!” And “Hey, Hey LBJ, How Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: August 14, 1996 If what goes on at a political convention is theater, why not have what goes on in a theater be a political convention? Besides, “the nation is panting for a major new governing party.” Or so the folks at the Fritz Theatre tell us. And so, we have FritzCON 96 (accent on the Con)-- Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: August 7, 1996 Oedipus and TV talk-shows. Tragedy and travesty. I never thought it would work. But the San Diego Rep’s ruminator, Doug Jacobs, and Sledgehammer’s wild-man, Scott Feldsher, have actually pulled it off. They’ve successfully managed to juxtapose the classic with the classless, intertwining Sophoclean genius and sophomoric entertainment. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: July 31, 1996 “The Green Bird” has landed in La Jolla. And when it takes wing, it floats, it soars, it embarks on a true flight of fantasy. Fresh from an acclaimed off-Broadway run, the Theatre for a New Audience production of “The Green Bird” is nothing short of astonishing. It’s funny, it’s 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