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“THE ALIENS” – ion theatre

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PAT LAUNER, CENTER STAGE ON KSDS-FM RUN DATES: 11/14/15 - 12/12/15 VENUE: ION THEATRE Thirty year-old slackers with no ambition or direction are not inherently the stuff of high drama. But in the hands of imaginative, award-winning playwright Annie Baker, who typically favors character over plot, they can be subtle case studies. Take KJ and Jasper, for example. One’s a college dropout; the other merely a high school grad. The dropout still lives with his mom. They used to Read More →

Ay, Compadre! By Latino Ensemble De San Diego At Centro Cultural De La Raza And “ The Me Nobody Knows” At Sdsu

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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 →

“falsettos” At The Old Globe Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: April 6, 1993 (SOUND: “Four Jews in a Room Bitching” from “Falsettos”) The opening number of "Falsettos" says it all about the first act -- four Jews in a room bitching.... bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, funny, funny, funny funny... all the time. Well, not all the time. Because things get pretty maudlin and Read More →

“xxx Love Act” At The Fritz Theater / “the Dyke And The Porn Star” At 6 @ Penn

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KPBS AIRDATE: JANUARY 27, 1999 If you haven’t had a bellyful of sex, violence and tough talk in the movies or the news, check out the theater – we’re in the midst of a veritable porn-fest. There’s “Making Porn” at Diversionary, “XXX Love Act” at the Fritz, “The Dyke and the Porn Star” and “Ballistic Femme” at 6@ Penn Studio. I thought I’d Read More →

“a Tale Of Two Cities” At The San Diego Repertory Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: November 21, 1991 I don't know if this is a far, far better thing than Ron Campbell has ever done, but I'm sure it's far, far more characters than he's ever played at one time. Almost twenty, to be sort of precise. And if the evening were a little shorter, it'd definitely be the best of Read More →

“ruby’s Bucket Of Blood” At San Diego Repertory Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: March 4, 1992 The world is not a very promising place for women, in the eyes of Cajun playwright Julie Hebert. They're either reined in by a man, by society, by their color or by some powerful self-imposed constraints. They've got, metaphorically speaking, a bucketful of problems. Hebert's Read More →