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“CRAZY FOR YOU” at The Civic Theatre & “GUYS AND DOLLS” at The California Center For The Arts – Escondido & “THE NORMAL HEART” at SDSU

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KPBS AIRDATE: October 19, 1994 (MUSIC... Theme from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly") The good, the bad and the ugly pretty well sums up this week in theater. Two musical road shows rolled into town, and one local drama about the AIDS epidemic has some ugly facts placed in a beautiful production. The very, very good part of the week was "Crazy for You," a new/old musical inspired by "Girl Crazy," written in 1930 Read More →

“aunt Dan And Lemon” At The North Coast Repertory Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: October 12, 1994 "Aunt Dan and Lemon" is the kind of play that leads an audience down a primrose path. It starts out innocuous enough. But then, it takes a sharp detour: the terrain becomes rocky, the sky turns dark, and the audience is left to find its own way out. Aunt Dan is not really an Read More →

“forbidden Broadway” At The Theatre In Old Town

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KPBS AIRDATE: October 6, 1994 Theater people just love navel-watching, mirror-gazing and finger-pointing. There are plays a-plenty about writing plays, producing plays, acting in plays. And then there are plays about other people's plays. But no one has developed this mocking genre to as relentless an art-form as Gerard Alessandrini, who's been spoofing other productions for 12 years in Read More →

“flyin’ West” At The San Diego Repertory Theatre / “diamonds” At Sdsu

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KPBS AIRDATE: SEPTEMBER 28, 1994 Onstage this week, it's a field day for America's two favorite pastimes: baseball and melodrama. If you didn't know that 'fan' was short for 'fanatic' and you're having withdrawal symptoms since the strike, you won't want to miss "Diamonds," a musical revue about bats, stats, bunts and the boys of summer, having Read More →

“later Life” At The Old Globe Theatre & “home” At The Old Globe Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: September 21, 1994 > At a time when stages and screens are crammed with hulky heroes and adorable ingénues, it's kind of refreshing that the Globe has mounted two thought-provoking plays that focus on older folks. Though both are very competently presented, we are struck, and moved, more by the plays than by the productions. The less accessible of Read More →

“sweeney Todd” At Moonlight Amphitheatre & “carthage” Produced By Theatre E

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KPBS AIRDATE: SEPTEMBER 14, 1994 It's been a savage week of theater. Only for the strong of stomach. First, there was Mump and Smoot at the La Jolla Playhouse, those "clowns of horror" who take a journey to Hell and wind up sucking from each other's dismembered limbs. Then there was Spalding Gray, also at the Playhouse, describing in detail Read More →