Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: October 26, 1994 > Two young men, searching for a little meaning in their lives. One is a sort of '60s Everyman. The other is the son of an 8th century monarch. One makes a musical journey; the other, a satirical one. Both end up in monumental compromise. The Read More →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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-Pat Launer