Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: February 9, 1994 > Question: Is it possible for a father to be too supportive of a son? This is an issue Jeff Mitchell grapples with every day. His mother is dead. He lives with his dad. Jeff is 24, cute and gay, and his father is 300% accepting. When Jeff leaves Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: February 2, 1994 > Can you get a little closer to the radio? I have a theater secret to share with you. Actually, you might even want to write this down. Get a pen and paper. Ready? Okay, here goes. Big Kitchen. That's it. San Diego's best-kept theatrical Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: January 26, 1994 > Kenneth Hoyle spends a lot of time in hotels. It's part of his job, as an international corporate exec, shuttling among Third World countries, pushing The Product, a questionable baby food, and advancing to the stature of company hatchet man. He used to be a gentler, kinder guy. He started out in the Peace Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: January 19, 1994 > Cuban-born Maria Irene Fornes is a juxtaposer par excelence; in her abstract, non-linear plays, fantasy and fatalism walk arm in arm, as do cruelty and tenderness, satire and extreme seriousness. Her plays may be viewed as dramatic collages, bits and pieces of a story, a life, a relationship, that the viewer has to help to make into a Read More →
THEATRE REVIEW: “ SWEET, SMART RODGERS & HART ” at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts KPBS AIRDATE: January 12, 1994 With music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, you can't lose. Or can you? When writer/director Steven Suskin conceived of "Sweet, Smart Rodgers & Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: January 4, 1994 > "Good, but not stupendous." "Fine, but not sensational." That's pretty much the way critics greeted "Flower Drum Song," Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1958 entry to the Broadway musical theater scene. It's a simple, romantic, and maybe even a trifle silly story about two generations of Chinese-Americans in San Francisco. It would seem hopelessly 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