Put a Little Drama in your Life
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine December 1990 Another wall has come tumbling down. The long-standing "fourth wall" of the theater, that invisible barrier between actor and audience, has officially crumbled. Interactive theater is here. These days, you can go to a show and move from room to room with the action (“Tamara”), dance with the Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine November 1990 Seven year-old Adam offered his $10 life savings to help rescue the theater. He understood "the biz," already having written a play-and-a-half of his own. Of course, he'd been hearing about the theater trouble at the dinner table for some time. His mother, after all, is Kit Goldman, managing Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine October 1990 Nightmare on Elm Street . It was 1988, and the Bowery Theatre had been in existence for eight years, playing in a quirky little underground space on Elm Street . Ralph Elias was brought in to direct Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, later nominated by the Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine September 1990 Mick Jagger said "You can't always get what you want," but Martin Gerrish has proved that you can. What he always wanted was a small, intimate theater where he could "direct good shows and have control over the quality." He formed Octad-One Productions in 1976, but it wasn't Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine August 1990 The cramped, little studio-office says it all -- in multiple media and in two languages. There are piles of yellowed newspapers in English and Spanish, racks of audio and video tapes. The bookshelves are methodically and bilingually tagged: Art Magazines/Revistas de Arte, Border Works/Chicano Literatura y Arte. Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine June 1990 It's something of an anomaly -- a two-headed, single-minded, theater-loving chimera. Douglas Jacobs, artistic director, and Sam Woodhouse, producing director, have melded into the unified force that is the San Diego Repertory Theatre. Fiercely proud of their harmony and unity (they refused to be interviewed Read More →