Posts tagged "March"

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine March 2005 When Fran Gercke, co-founder of New Village Arts, first read The Waverly Gallery, he thought, “You’d have to be a hermit, or totally cold-blooded, not to respond to this.” His company’s latest production concerns the reaction of a New York family to the downward spiral of their feisty, high-powered matriarch, who’s slipping away before their eyes, succumbing to age and dementia. Sounds dark and intense -- which does, in Read More →

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine March 2004 Okay, let's get the terminology straight first. There's a difference between children's theater and theater for children. In discussing their new theatrical venture, Lamb's Players Theatre producing artistic director Robert Smyth and associate artist James Saba are assiduous about making the distinction. "In theater for children," explains Saba, a highly regarded local actor who served Read More →

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine March 2003 They're cousins in an arranged marriage. They live with his domineering mother, who treats her daughter-in-law like a servant. The mama's boy husband is weak and sickly. The suffocated, unsatisfied wife falls in love with her husband's best friend, a handsome, lusty artist. Ah, yes, it's Paris, 1864. And, one day, during a boat ride on the river, the lovers throw Read More →

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine March 2002 You could call it trial by jury. Anyone who seriously considers a career in theater has to develop thick skin. Theatermakers put their guts on the line with every venture, and the scrutiny is brutal -- and very public. Anyone who's too thin-skinned will never last. Beeb Salzer, design Professor in the Department of Theatre at San Diego State Read More →