Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: November 18, 1992 Anyone who knows anything about music or theater has a strong opinion of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim. The Tony, Oscar and Pulitzer Prize-winner has been hailed as the most important, creative, innovative composer-lyricist of his generation -- and damned as the most dark, cerebral and inaccessible musical theater artist of his or any day. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: November 11, 1992 The society is filled with civilized shallowness. The wealthy are consumed with appearance, obsessive about their expensive diversions. They have a superficial grasp of love; only the trivialities are serious to them. They celebrate a war, and make light of the casualties. One might call them “morally moronic.” Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: November 11, 1992 If the state of your life or your world has got you grinding your teeth, the title of Terrence McNally's latest play has the pre-sleep exercise remedy: "Lips Together, Teeth Apart." It's a provocative and intriguing title, and so's the play in many ways. But what's really intriguing is the Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: November 4, 1992 This is as Wilde as it gets -- Oscar Wilde, that is. "The Importance of Being Earnest" has been hailed as a comic masterpiece, a brilliant slice of satire on the upper classes, who richly deserve all the skewering they get -- both today, and in 1895 when the play was written. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: October 28, 1992 The San Diego Rep has Spunk. And how. The pulsing, rhythmic, muscular adaptation of three Zora Neale Hurston stories has danced its way into the Lyceum Theatre. It's a spare, eloquent, language-rich series of folk tales -- black in hue but universal in tone. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: October 21, 1992 A critic owes it to her audience to be honest about her biases. So let me come clean and say that I didn't really care for the original, 1977 smash-hit musical, "Annie." It was cartoonish, but not in the right ways. It milked the cute-kids and dog routine to Read More →
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-Pat Launer