Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: APRIL 27, 1994 Not only does it have a provocative title, "I Hate Hamlet," a play first produced in 1991, already has a place in theater history. During its brief but legendary Broadway run, in the middle of a duel scene, one actor actually tried to injure another, while he ad-libbed a variety of denigrating comments about the younger man's thespian prowess Read More →
Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/3/21 RUN DATES: 10/1/21 - ongoing VENUE: Netflix See it at home before Broadway! Read the full review here. Read More →
Aired on KSDS-FM on 11/16/18 RUN DATES: 11/4/18 - 11/24/18 VENUE: InnerMission Productions There’s an almond-shaped mass of gray matter in your brain called the amygdala, that’s responsible for emotions. In 2001, this factoid inspired the now-acclaimed playwright Sarah Ruhl to create her first full-length work, “Melancholy Play.” As one character puts it in his “defense of melancholy,” it’s “a disappearing emotion.” We talk about depression all the time, but melancholy – often sentimentalized in song -- seems to have Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: December 2, 1992 Season's "Greetings"! The holiday theater season has officially begun. It's been launched with a laugh at North Coast Repertory Theatre, with "Greetings!" by Tom Dudzick, a new playwright with a great sense of humor. His plot-line is silly and predictable and his play is old-fashioned, Read More →
Aired on KSDS-FM on 3/1/19 RUN DATES: 2/9/19 - 3/17/19 VENUE: The Old Globe It’s always been fascinating to me that people pour out their hearts and souls to a complete stranger in an advice column. I guess anonymity is empowering. In 2010, when best-selling author Cheryl Strayed was asked to take over an advice column called “Dear Sugar,” in The Rumpus, an online literary magazine, her response was an unequivocal ‘No.’ In addition to the difficulty of the Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: AUGUST 18, 1999 MUSIC: “Opening” Ahh, the moors… those lonely, dark, desolate places, rife with windswept imaginings and ripe for ill-fated romance. The perfect setting for the kind of Gothic melodrama favored by the Brontë sisters, Emily and Charlotte. Heathcliffe and Catherine of Wuthering Heights. Jane and Edward of Thornfield Hall. Read More →
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-Pat Launer