KPBS AIRDATE:   DECEMBER 31, 1999 If the holidays make you feel fried, why not get Fritzed?   Once again, the Fritz Theater goes against the typically angelic seasonal treacle by presenting a devilishly acid-laced dark-comic confection. This year, it's "The Hothouse," written, in 1958, by that ever-cryptic British absurdist, Harold Pinter. It's Christmas Eve inside a Read More →

KPBS AIRDATE: DECEMBER 24, 1999 He's mean, he's green, and he's back, in all his Grinchy glory. Yes, it's the grouch the Whos hate to hate, the shaggy, musical answer to "Bah! Humbug!" "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" returns San Diego to wow the kiddies -- and their folks, in this successful second edition of the Globe holiday sellout.   It's a quick, 75-minute, intermissionless sprint Read More →

KPBS AIRDATE: DECEMBER 17, 1999 Talk about the holiday spirit… how about four of them? That would be the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future… and old Marley, who "was dead, to begin with."   This month, you can get spirited away to the 24th incarnation of "A Christmas Carol" at the San Diego Repertory Theatre. The cast of characters is Read More →

KPBS AIRDATE:   DECEMBER 10, 1999                   Tired of the same old Christmas classics? Well, there are three new kids in town, holiday confections written by local playwrights. Each has an uplifting theme, a bevy of beautiful voices, and at least one delightful child actor. In "Amelia's Sugarplum Nightmare," it's 13 year-old Kelsey Read More →

KPBS AIRDATE:   DECEMBER 3, 1999 Christmastime, 1939. Atlanta is all a-flutter about the opening of "Gone With the Wind." No one is going to let that nasty little moustached man thousands of miles away ruin their holiday with some silly invasion of Poland.   The young girls are much more concerned with who's going to escort them on "The Last Night Read More →