Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: OCTOBER 17, 1991 It may be something of an impossible dream, trying to re-create a production 25 years later, with some of the same cast. Kind of like trying to squeeze into your wedding gown a quarter-century after the fact. Even if it fits, it doesn't look quite right. Well, that's sort of the Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: December 19, 1991 Garrison Keillor knows that good radio is fun to watch. So does Blackfriars Theatre. They're back with an all new, improved version of last year's runaway fund-raising hit, "More of the Laughing Buddha Wholistik Radio Theatre." A door slams. We hear footsteps approaching. And we see Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: February 26, 1992 I've always thought that "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" was August Wilson's most powerful play. And although playwrights, like parents, rarely like to compare their creations, I recently read that Wilson admitted it was his favorite, too. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Wilson is chronicling the Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: April 29, 1992 David Mamet can't write women. In his pointed, satirical plays, he often -- wisely -- leaves them out. Or he gives them insubstantial characters, enigmatic and unfulfilled. Seeing a double-bill of Mamet one weekend night, at two different theaters, I was struck most by his misogyny. I'd Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: June 25, 1992 The puns, like the bowling pins being juggled, fly fast and furious. "Le Petomane" is billed as "a comedy of airs," and it has to do with Joseph Pujol, a baker cum cabaret performer in turn-of-the-century Paris , who earned fame, fortune and, now, a measure of immortality, by creative wind-passing. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: August 26, 1992 Some books for kids aren't just for kids. And some have staying power across the generations. "The Secret Garden," by Frances Hodgson Burnett, is one of those books. Last year, when the novel turned eighty, it resurfaced as a smash, award-winning Broadway musical. Read More →
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-Pat Launer