Put a Little Drama in your Life
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine December 1992 Ralph Elias is pondering the Big Questions: "Can one head up a small, non-profit theater company and still be an artist? And is it possible, even after twenty years at it, to be an artist and make a living?" Elias has been artistic director of the Bowery Theatre for the past 4 1/2 years. Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine November 1992 What's a pinhook? A strong, thread-thin fish-hook, used to snag crawdads and 'gators in the Bayou. In the play by the same name, it's a metaphor. "It's a little thing that gets into your soul; something traumatic that festers, and you carry it through your life," explains Jerry Riker, the author of “Pinhook”, a Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine October 1992 The six year old girl and the nine year-old boy stared at each other across the floor of the old Ratliffe Dance Academy on the corner of Broadway and Twelfth. She was into ballet; he favored tap. It was 1943. Nine years later Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine September 1992 He always thought country music was "irritating, repetitive and revolting. The music of stupid, ignorant hicks." Now Mark Harelik is starring in a country-musical he co-wrote: “ Lost Highway : The Music and Legend of Hank Williams” (at the Old Globe's Festival Theatre through October 4). He's come a long Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine August 1992 Marga Gomez doesn't forget anything. In "Memory Tricks," her autobiographical performance monologue, she remembers every nuance, gesture and intonation from her past. Gomez is recreating her childhood and, in infinite detail, recalling her mother, who started out as a flashy Puerto Rican mambo and belly dancer, and wound up a victim of Alzheimer's disease. Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine July 1992 That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure does hang around. It's almost twenty-five years since "Tommy" hit the scene, in that ground-breaking rock opera performed by The Who. "Tommy" became their anthem, and a major symbol of pop culture, with its eerily unforgettable musical themes and broad range of contradictory subjects: Read More →