Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: January 07, 2005 East meets West, in ancient and modern guise. Art confronts forgery. Deception seeps in between friends and lovers. Moral ambiguity is everywhere – in the artist as well as the art dealer, the academic as well as the journalist. Absolutely nothing is what it seems in Naomi Iizuka’s dazzling and provocative “36 Views.” The play, a beautiful, bicultural meditation on truth and Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: March 18, 2005 Boys will be boys. Right now, you can get a bellyful of jerks, weirdos and overgrown adolescents on San Diego stages. The self-proclaimed jerk is in “The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron,” an often-hilarious one-man show about how men are hard-wired for idiocy. A lot of their nasty habits and unconscionable acts toward women are, says engaging actor Miles Stroth, directly Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: May 20, 2005 Mismatched couples meet class consciousness and social commentary in George Bernard Shaw’s loquacious but amusing “Misalliance.” The play was a flop when it opened in London, shortly after it was written in 1910, but it made a big splash on this side of the pond when it premiered in New York in 1953. Still, it’s a talky, sometimes prolix Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: July 15, 2005 The summer is heating up on local stages, and there’s every kind of offering from the ridiculous to the sublime. At the Globe’s outdoor Summer Shakespeare Festival, you can have it both ways. Festival artistic director Darko Tresnjak reveals his whimsical and silly side with a vaudeville/slapstick production of “The Comedy of Errors.” Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: September 09, 2005 Rebels with a cause. Young folks who stand up against their society are storming local stages. Consider: Huck Finn, Romeo & Juliet and the shaggy denizens of “Hair.” It was personal independence and racial freedom that ignited the incorrigible and irresistible Huckleberry Finn. Now he’s back, in a marvelous Moonlight Amphitheatre production of the Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: November 11, 2005 Well, the “Jersey Boys” have successfully made the trip back East. The irresistible jukebox musical, about the rise and fall and rise of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, began as a huge hit at the La Jolla Playhouse last year, directed by Des McAnuff. The megawatt show just opened on Broadway – to a rousing reception from New Yorkers and 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