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“The Miracle Worker” at Lamb’s Players Theatre & “Terra Nova” at North Coast Repertory Theatre & “Coyote Ugly” at the Fritz Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: May 31, 1995 It’s catch-up time. Notable productions have been piling up, and you only have this weekend to catch most of them. And the best part is, they’re all notable for very strong acting. In the historical drama division, there’s “The Miracle Worker” at Lamb’s Players Theatre and “Terra Nova” at North Coast Rep. “The Miracle Worker,” you may remember, is William Gibson’s inspiring story of Anne Sullivan, the visually-impaired teacher who takes Read More →

“a Streetcar Named Desire” At The San Diego Repertory Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: February 7, 1996 They are two giants of the American theater -- expansive, unforgettable characters. Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski -- the fluttering, fading Southern belle and the bestial, carnal working-class Pole. Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 masterpiece, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” has been etched into the American psyche by the 1951 movie, with its electrifying performances by Marlon Read More →

Changing Rainbows At The Ensemble Arts Theatre / Sight Unseen At The Fritz Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: November 13, 1996 We’ve always been fascinated by the private lives of artists -- both factual and fictional. How their inner torment is reflected on their canvases. How frequently they abuse themselves and their loved ones. How they crave fame and are tortured by it. Buyers pay top dollar for their work, but they pay Read More →

Mud At The Fritz Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: July 9, 1997 Sam Shepard meets Ethan Frome in “Mud” by Irene Fornes. It’s one of those small, searing, claustrophobic plays that fits so well into the Fritz Theatre. “Mud” features a lethal erotic triangle, a trio of characters trapped by their own poverty, ignorance, desires and destructiveness. Its gritty setting and ghastly ending are Read More →

“all In The Timing” On The Cassius Carter Centre Stage / “giving Up The Ghost”

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KPBS AIRDATE: APRIL 3, 1998 Actually, it’s all in the writing. When a play is beautifully poetic or hysterically surreal, a director has to simply get out of the way and let the language take over. In two very satisfying productions, one director does, one doesn’t, but the result still works out to excellent effect. Read More →

“suddenly Last Summer” At Diversionary Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: NOVEMBER 4, 1998 Pimping. Murder. Cannibalism. Lobotomy. Sounds like the Jerry Springer Show. But it’s really Tennessee Williams. In “Suddenly Last Summer,” his 1958 Off Broadway one-act, Williams probes his familiar themes of life and death, power, greed and corruption -- with a vengeance. He brought to the American Read More →