Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: July 29, 1994 The Kennedys, King and color TV. It was a time of life-changing endings and beginnings. The summer of 1969 -- half a million hippies landed at Yazgur's farm and Apollo 11 landed on the moon. If you were alive, you were watching. One-fifth of the world's population was watching. Though Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: JULY 27, 1994 They were separated by style, substance and a century, but now they're as close as cousins. The seventeenth century comic playwright Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux snuggles up to nineteenth century Naturalistic novelist Emile Zola, compliments of the La Jolla Playhouse. The Playhouse has done it again: pairing two disparate but Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: July 20, 1994 > There's an Irish Mist wafting through Balboa Park, and it's coming from the Old Globe. The theatre company is staging two contemporary Irish dramas, and both will transport you to far-off places. Outdoors, on the Festival Stage, they've mounted "Wonderful Tennessee," the latest creation of Brian Friel, Ireland's pre-eminent living playwright. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: July 13, 1994 It's shaping up to be a very theatrical summer. This week, there's a run on comedy and nostalgia. It's a broad expanse of terrain to cover, so let me just kick up a few stones for you, and you can explore further on your own. In the Comedy Corner, there's "Beau Jest," and in Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: July 6, 1994 We've had theater in a storefront, in a shopping mall, in a warehouse; why not in a business park? It's awfully serious in Sorrento Valley; the area could use a little comic relief. Fundraiser to the rescue! A high-quality, independent production of "A Thousand Clowns" is being staged this month at the offices of Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: June 22, 1994 A Playboy photo of a man and woman exchanging clothing caught the eye of New York playwright Erin Cressida Wilson. She thought it was a metaphor for love, the ultimate merging with another person. And so she called her 1992 coming-of-age play, "Cross-Dressing in the Depression." In a highly sexually-charged co-production of 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