Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: October 7, 1992 Can a politician ever enter the Pearly Gates? Sure: Watergate , Iran -Contragate, and now, "Mastergate." The political satire has just parked its sardonic and corrupt little butt into the North Coast Repertory Theatre. Penned by Larry Gelbart -- the M*A*S*H-man -- it's a silly Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: November 25, 1992 For no apparent reason, there are eight actors in "The Dresser," a comic drama by British playwright Ronald Harwood. It's really a two-person piece. There's the title character, Norman , and there's Sir, the fading actor-manager at the helm of a crumbling Shakespearean company. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: February 3, 1993 Relationships aren't easy. Just ask Wallace Shawn and David Mamet. Not that they're having one together, but a small cast, one act play by each is running uptown on Sixth Avenue and downtown on Seventh. These pieces aren't about good relationships, mind you. Certainly not enviable ones, especially if Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: March 31, 1993 “Lady Be Good” is the kind of show that makes you really appreciate what "Oklahoma" did for musical theatre. Before that 1943 groundbreaker, musicals -- that uniquely American theater form -- were mainly just an excuse for a few good songs and a funny guy... a kind of vaudeville revue loosely tied together with a Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: May 26, 1993 When theater and politics commingle, the results can be dogmatic ... or incendiary. Lucky for us, we are currently being treated to two stellar productions that provide politics without pedantry. On the somewhat lighter, filmic side, we have "Children of Paradise: Shooting A Dream" at the La Jolla Playhouse. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: July 28, 1993 "The Hairy Ape" is an unsettling hymn for the disillusioned, disenfranchised, disaffected masses of society. It's about pride and power, class and consciousness, pain and violence. Written in 1922, it's one of Eugene O'Neill's earlier efforts. It isn't easy, and it isn't often done. But it's been tackled anew by 26 Read More →
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-Pat Launer