KPBS AIRDATE: DECEMBER 29, 2000 In the beginning, there was a void. The world was a straight and narrow place, and darkness was upon the crooked landscape. And then, creative artists saw the light. And gay plays rained down upon us for what seemed like forty years. A veritable flood of homoerotic plays and performance art. Après Paul Rudnick, the deluge. Actually, there was a torrent Read More →

KPBS AIRDATE: DECEMBER 22, 2000 Cue the Christmas bells. (SOUND) Cue the cowbell (SOUND). Cue the cow (SOUND). Another Christmas cash-cow sidles into the already crowded holiday field. Look! There's the Sugarplum Fairy, and Ebenezer Scrooge, and over there's the Grinch. And, demanding a significant piece of its own commercial real estate, Lamb's annual bovine contender, "Festival of Christmas." So what's wrong with Read More →

KPBS AIRDATE: DECEMBER 15, 2000 It's 10:30, New Year's Eve. First Night, as they say in New England. Danny Fleming is getting ready to close up the video store for the year. And then, out of the snow -- actually, out of the blue -- in walks Meredith O'Connor. It's been 20 years. He has obsessed about her since 8th Read More →

KPBS AIRDATE: DECEMBER 8, 2000 Ladies and gentlemen, and children of all ages…. Step right up to the Scrooge and Marley Circus. You'll see clowns and jugglers, acrobats and aerialists, a giant, a midget, a sword-swallower. And, in the center ring, you'll thrill to the transformation of the hard-hearted, tight-fisted, whip-snapping ringmaster, Ebenezer Scrooge. It's not as far-fetched as it sounds. Circuses were Read More →

KPBS AIRDATE: DECEMBER 1, 2000 It was one of those remarkable moments that only happens in live theater. On opening night of "The Scarlet Pimpernel," 20 minutes into the show, the stage was suddenly bare and the suspension of disbelief was shattered by a voice-of-God booming over the Civic Theatre P.A. system. There would be a delay, we were told, because of "a little accident backstage." The houselights Read More →