Put a Little Drama in your Life
DECEMBER 1996 Published in the Globe Magazine FEATURE ON "MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN" Long heralded as the "founder of American drama," Eugene O'Neill lived a life that was as dramatic as anything he ever wrote. His biography includes adventures at sea, gold prospecting in Honduras, destitution on the waterfronts of Buenos Aires and New York, hard drinking, three Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine November 1996 Dennis Kelly was born to be Joe Boyd. Both the real and the fictional characters grew up loving loser baseball teams. Boyd, the middle-aged fan of the fictional Washington Senators, sells his soul to the Devil to become the world's greatest ballplayer and defeat those “Damn Yankees”. Kelly, a Cubs fan who still Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine October 1996 It may be blasphemous to say so, but this is a Christian group that produces damn good theater. (Is that blasphemy?) Well, it's no sin -- and no secret -- that Lamb's Players has been getting great critical and audience attention. But that's no surprise to its Artistic Producing Director, Robert Smyth. Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine October 1996 The drugstore soda jerk watched the actors come in from the theater in the park. They reminded him of his own first experience on a stage: as a deep-voiced troll in a kindergarten play. The kid grew up, but he never lost sight of that park or that theater. This month, Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine October 1996 Lisa Kron started out in straight theater ("mostly playing old ladies and next-door neighbors"), which is kinda funny, since she might have been the only Jewish lesbian in Lansing, Michigan, or maybe the only lesbian Jew. "I always had a queer sensibility," she admits. "I wasn't pretty and I wasn't getting much attention. Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine September 1996 Shakespeare never had it so jazzy. His words and deeds have been set to music before, but not like this. This month (September 14-October 26), the Old Globe Theatre presents the world premiere of “Play On!”, loosely based on the Bard's 1601 comedy “Twelfth Night”, with music by.... Duke Ellington. Read More →