Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: DECEMBER 2, 1998 Alfred Uhry was a 50 year-old, not-so-successful lyricist for Broadway musicals when he went to the theater one night and sat through a play bad enough to inspire him. “I could do better than that if I wrote about my grandmother,” he said. And so he did. The result was “Driving Miss Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: FEBRUARY 3, 1999 It was a big weekend of loss and abandonment for me – not in my personal life, but in the theater. I ventured north to Orange County and L.A. for a theater weekend of three plays in two days. And they all had to do with a search for something lost, and impossible to recapture. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: APRIL 7, 1999 It’s a great week for seeing how the other half lives. At the San Diego Rep, there’s a world premiere Latino play, “Marriage is Forever,” and the Globe’s got “Blues for an Alabama Sky.” One’s comic, the other’s very dramatic; both are about finding your way in a not-always welcoming land, making a new life, Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: JUNE 2, 1999 Whatever happened to the fourth wall? There used to be some distance and separation between actors and audience. But now, more than ever, the players come right out and talk to us directly. As if we’re friends. As if it’s as natural as yogurt that hundreds of us have come to visit. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: JULY 21, 1999 So you’re standing out there in Balboa Park, and the thunder starts to roll. SOUND: Thunder Even though you know you’re about to go into the theater, you still shudder and look for rain. “Thunder is Knocking on the Door,” Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: SEPTEMBER 29, 1999 By now, we've all had a bellyful of American mobsters… their contorted faces looming ominously on the small and large screen. Mafiosi with their Noo Yawk accents, their molls, their mothers and their murderous machinations. Now, we meet their transcontinental counterparts. The London underworld is the setting of the brutal and brutally funny "Gangster Read More →
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-Pat Launer