Put a Little Drama in your Life
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine December 2002 For a comic actor, he's a pretty serious guy. Lewis J. Stadlen is naturally funny -- who else could play that madman/mischief-maker, Max Bialystock, centerpiece of "The Producers"? -- but he loves to talk about books and theater, success and acting. It didn't intimidate him to step into the huge shoes of the ever-manic Zero Mostel, who played Max onscreen in Read More →
Published in Décor & Style Magazine 'Tis the season…. for something old, something new, something old made new and something out of the blue. For traditionalists, The Nutcracker returns to San Diego and Orange County. The California Ballet brings back Tchaikovsky's all-time favorite, in downtown and North County venues. Executive director Maxine Mann choreographs a cast of 160, backed by members of the San Diego Symphony. The Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine November 2002 THE DOCTOR IS IN He meant what he said And he said what he meant… So his readers are faithful, 100%. Silly characters, goofy shapes, wacky rhymes and Crayola colors. But there was method to his madness. And he changed children's books Read More →
Published in Décor & Style Magazine Onstage this month: a few spitfires and a Spitfire Grill. The Spitfire Grill is the new musical based on the 1996 indie film of the same name. Into a town with no future steps a girl with a past. The movie, written and directed by Lee David Zlotoff, concerned a female ex-con who appears in the small, Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine October 2002 It's one of the most famously vitriolic insults in literary history. Writer Mary McMarthy went on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980 and called fellow writer Lillian Hellman a fraud. "Every word she writes is a lie," she said, "including and and the." "I was completely mesmerized," confessed Nora Ephron. "You couldn't help but think it was Read More →
Published in Décor & Style Magazine Old friends and enemies take to the stage this month. Peter and Wendy return, along with all our Dr. Seuss friends. And two literary masters exchange barbs after death. Peter and Wendy is a magical, musical retelling of J.M. Barrie's 1911 novel about the characters in his 1904 hit play, Peter Pan. One critic described the award-winning Read More →