Put a Little Drama in your Life
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine November 1999 Young, Italian-Irish wannabe-opera singer directs play about wartime Southern Jews. Seems unlikely, but Cynthia Stokes is up to the task. Actually, the 36 year-old Albuquerque native hasn't wanted to be an opera singer for a long time. Instead, she's directed operas (in Houston, L.A. and San Diego) as Read More →
Published in Pasadena Magazine October 1999 Mavis and Mona; Pump Boys and Dinettes. Jim Wann has created them all. Born in the small-town South, in the town of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee (looking out for nearby Chattanooga), Wann's heart remains below the Mason-Dixon Line, even though he lives in upstate New York. His musical compositions and theatrical creations are Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine October 1999 Shortly after I moved to San Diego in 1979, I was writing my doctoral dissertation on the acquisition of American Sign Language, and I decided to start a theater of the deaf, which seemed the perfect combination of my various interests. Sorely in need of a crash-course in sign language, I was referred to Jean Kelly. Read More →
SEPTEMBER 1999 Published in In Theater It's not a very long trip from Delano, California to San Diego. But it's been some journey for Luis Valdez. On the way from picking cotton at age six to his current residency at the San Diego Repertory Theatre (supported by a Pew Charitable Trust grant through TCG), Valdez has gone through more than the usual Read More →
Published in In Theater Well, the Eyre is clear now in San Diego… As the La Jolla Playhouse prepares to send Broadway its striking, well-received, extended-by-popular-demand, revised musical version of "Jane Eyre" (directed by John Caird, designed by John Napier), new shows are coming in and a much-respected director is moving on. Michael Greif, the Playhouse's artistic director Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine September 1999 “Most of what I say in an interview isn’t true,” says acclaimed actor Roger Rees, who’s directing “The Merry Wives of Windsor” at the Old Globe (September 4-October 9). So caveat lector; let the reader beware. What is true is that Roger Rees was born May 5, 1944 Read More →