Put a Little Drama in your Life
AIRDATE: April 26, 2002 On stages near and far, brotherly love is looking a lot like fratricide. Siblings under stress feature in two new plays and a West Coast premiere. Up at South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, we have the Collyer Brothers, the subject of acclaimed playwright Richard Greenberg's latest venture, "The Dazzle." Three years ago, Greenberg dazzled local audiences Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: JULY 29, 1998 Theatrically, they couldn’t be more different. One’s a multi-million-dollar megamusical; the other’s a tiny, intimate drama. But both were written in faraway countries, set against a harrowing political backdrop. And both feature an unhappy couple: one pair can’t stay apart, the other can’t get together. It’s an unlikely ménage: Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: February 26, 1997 In 1870, at the ripe old age of 58, Charles Dickens died in England, while working on a serialized novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. More than a century later, Rupert Holmes turned his lifelong obsession with the unfinished novel into a musical called “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” for which he wrote the book, score and lyrics. Read More →
Aired on KSDS-FM on 11/1/19 RUN DATES: 10/11/19 - 11/17/19 VENUE: Lamb's Players Theatre Meet Hugo and Frédéric, identical twin brothers. By the end of “Ring Round the Moon,” the cold, calculating manipulator discovers that he has a heart, and the romantic milquetoast finds his spine. After many incidents, hurdles and machinations, both wind up perfectly matched. The play is an English adaptation, written by Christopher Fry in 1950, of a 1947 French satire by Jean Anouilh. It’s the Read More →
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-Pat Launer