Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: December 16, 1992 Sholem Aleichem means "Peace be with You." But it also means Solomon Rabinowitz. Sholem Aleichem was the pen name for one of the most literate, humorous and revered of Jewish poets and writers. Born in 1859 near Kiev in Russia , he died Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: December 9, 1992 There's A Christmas Carol everywhere you go these days. Not only in elevators, department stores and telephone hold-lines, but also on stages around the county. The story by Charles Dickens has been with us for almost 150 years. And the San Diego Repertory Theatre has been twisting, turning, revising, revamping 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 →
KPBS AIRDATE: November 25, 1992 For no apparent reason, there are eight actors in "The Dresser," a comic drama by British playwright Ronald Harwood. It's really a two-person piece. There's the title character, Norman , and there's Sir, the fading actor-manager at the helm of a crumbling Shakespearean company. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: November 18, 1992 Anyone who knows anything about music or theater has a strong opinion of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim. The Tony, Oscar and Pulitzer Prize-winner has been hailed as the most important, creative, innovative composer-lyricist of his generation -- and damned as the most dark, cerebral and inaccessible musical theater artist of his or any day. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: November 11, 1992 The society is filled with civilized shallowness. The wealthy are consumed with appearance, obsessive about their expensive diversions. They have a superficial grasp of love; only the trivialities are serious to them. They celebrate a war, and make light of the casualties. One might call them “morally moronic.” Read More →