Put a Little Drama in your Life
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine December 1991 He really “isn't” the British Neil Simon, though heaven knows they've been compared enough times. (But he's also been compared to Anton Chekhov, so go figure). Playwright Alan Ayckbourn does have some commonalities with Simon. They're roughly of the same generation; Simon's 64, Ayckbourn's 52. They're both Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine November 1991 Uh-oh. They're boasting about "incestuous relationships" and "unnatural acts." Sledgehammer Theatre is at it again. San Diego 's shock-loving fringe theater company is caught in another maelstrom. Just as their various "bad-boy" members are emerging in the theatrical mainstream, they come along and brag about Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine October 1991 These are days of multicultural awareness and cultural pluralism. Organizations are forming all over the country, to promote the mythology, beliefs or cultural history of particular non-mainstream groups, which no longer comprise an American minority, especially in California . San Diego has its share of cultural theater groups, one Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine September 1991 It may not be the greatest show on earth, but how about the greatest show in Golden Hill? The Fern Street Circus is coming to town, with a semi-big top, one ring, and a whole heckuva lot of community spirit. This is the brain-child of John Highkin, a 40 year-old Cambridge-educated Golden Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine August 1991 It's slim pickin's for a summer smorgasbord. The setting is spectacular -- a sun-speckled afternoon or a star-splashed night in San Diego . But the table is a bit bare, and a lot of the offerings, though heaped with hype, seem the same. You don't have to loosen your Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine July 1991 Milky White is on the mooove. The remote-control cow, specially built for Moonlight Amphitheatre's Southern California premiere production of Stephen Sondheim's “Into the Woods” (the first since the Old Globe's in 1987), has been all over the state and points east in the past nine months. The imaginative, inspired bovine has Read More →