Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: DECEMBER 4, 1996 If family functions this holiday season fill you with dread or drag you down, spend an evening with Nicky Silver’s family, and you’ll feel a whole lot better. No dramatist, except for maybe August Strindberg or Eugene O’Neill, succeeds so completely in making ‘family’ feel like a four-letter word. All three mix a Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: February 19, 1997 A world premiere. A woman’s courageous story. A fascinating centerpiece and a play that’s a little rough around the edges. The description applies equally to “Pride’s Crossing” and “A Diva Like Me.” At the Old Globe Theatre, there’s a delectable treat center-stage. It’s Cherry Jones, winner of last Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: April 16, 1997 Rudolfo Anaya has been called “the poet of the barrio,” “the father of Chicano literature in English,” a remarkable storyteller who has written unpretentiously but provocatively about Mexican-American culture and identity. In his first and best-selling 1972 novel, “Bless Me, Ultima,” Anaya examines remembered youth. In his 1990 Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: June 4, 1997 It’s Terrence McNally Time. Two Tony Award-winning Best Plays back to back. Last week, San Diego Playgoers brought us the national tour of “Master Class,” and now, at Diversionary Theatre, we have the San Diego premiere of “Love! Valour! Compassion!” Ample opportunity to enjoy the wit, wisdom, melodrama and artistic sensibility of Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: July 30, 1997 “The Comedy of Errors” makes a pretty strong argument for not giving your identical twins identical names, not dressing them identically, and not hiring caretakers for them who are twins with the same name. The possibilities for confusion, needless to say, are endless. And, if all the twins were separated shortly after birth, and don’t even Read More →
THEATRE REVIEW: “ A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM ” at the Fritz Theatre & “ THE MASK OF MORIARTY ” at the Old Globe Theatre KPBS AIRDATE: September 24, 1997 If you like your literary sources pure, better stay home this week. It’s 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