Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: July 19, 1995 It’s Festival ‘95, and the Old Globe steps up to the plate. In their first time at bat for the summer, they’ve got one hit, one error and one pop fly. The palpable hit is “Henry IV,” a conflated version of Shakespeare’s Parts I and II, adapted by Dakin Matthews and directed by Jack O’Brien. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: July 5, 1995 People say that when you fall in love, time stands still. In “Cloud Tectonics,” when Aníbal de la Luna meets Celestina del Sol, one night lasts for two years. You might say the moon and the sun collide. Outside, on the crazed Los Angeles streets, there’s Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: June 28, 1995 Some plays are timeless and universal. And some have very narrow audience appeal. Right now, San Diego stages are spotlighting the latter more than the former. For a West coast premiere at the Lyceum in Horton Plaza, the Cambridge Theatre Company has brought its very solid mounting of “Bill W. and Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: June 21, 1995 God bless the Fritz. The gritty, zany, indomitable little company loves to dance along the precipice. Not only were they prescient in scheduling a drama about the white supremacists long before the militia movement took center stage with the April 19 Oklahoma City bombing. But, as usual, they went one Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: June 14, 1995 “Hedda Gabler” is many things: a summation of the dramatic theories and skills of the great nineteenth century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, considered the father of modern drama. To many, it is a perfectly structured play. It centers on a contradictory and unforgettable character. It is a problem Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: JUNE 7, 1995 The year is 1936, and it's harvest-time in Ballybeg, an imaginary town in County Donegal, Ireland. Time for the annual festival of Lughnasa, dedicated to the pagan harvest god, Lugh. Trapped in their poor, cramped home, isolated on the edge of a wheat field, four of the unmarried Mundy sisters want desperately to attend 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