Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: March 6, 1996 There’s a crisis in our courts. And there’s nothing the theater loves more than crisis and courtrooms. Or, in the case of “Voir Dire,” crisis in jury-rooms. Written in 1992, Joe Sutton’s play takes on all sorts of heightened meaning in the wake of the Rodney King, Marion Barry and Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: February 28, 1996 Sometimes a revelation can shake the very foundation of your beliefs. Everything you’ve built your life on can crumble, in the face of one errant patient as in “Forgiving Typhoid Mary,” or one visitation from a dead mother, as in “Raised in Captivity.” Typhoid Mary was a provocateur. An enigmatic figure, whose nickname Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: February 21, 1996 Remember when comedy was King? When there were funny-folks all over town, and you could find a comedy club in every community? Well, that was the eighties. And then along came Cable, and Comedy Central, and carloads of others, and soon we had more stand-up than we could sit through. The live Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: February 14, 1996 Here’s a timely trio: a little piece of theatrical past, present and future. The recent past is last week’s visit from the national touring company of the musical, “Grease!” The present is “Making Porn,” a nude-n-nasty comedy here for two-weeks only. And the future is Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, whose weekend stint in “The Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: February 7, 1996 They are two giants of the American theater -- expansive, unforgettable characters. Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski -- the fluttering, fading Southern belle and the bestial, carnal working-class Pole. Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 masterpiece, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” has been etched into the American psyche by the 1951 movie, with its electrifying performances by Marlon Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: January 31, 1996 In my opinion, theater is most effective when it makes you think. And it goes even further, and deeper, when it makes you think, ‘What would I have done?’ Questions of philosophical significance are being posed on two San Diego stages, in Frank McGuinness’ “Someone Who’ll Watch over Me” at North Coast Repertory Theatre, and in Read More →
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-Pat Launer