Put a Little Drama in your Life
Playwrights Project at the Cassius Carter Centre Stage KPBS SUBMISSION DATE: NOVEMBER 13, 1999 The settings range from the South in the 1840s to somewhere between this life and the next. The writers range from age 13-18. The quality ranges, too. It's the annual presentation of the winning productions from the statewide competition of Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: NOVEMBER 12, 1999 Theater is all about illusion. "The Illusion" is all about theater. Well, not only theater. It's also about reality versus artifice, mortality, redemption and lust… but mostly, it's about love: filial, friendly and passionate. And since a reclusive sorcerer takes center stage, it's about magic. Which brings us back to theater. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: NOVEMBER 5, 1999 As the decade, the century and the millennium come to a close, what's on our collective, political minds? -- China; Russia and the Balkans; cyberspace and Y2K, of course. They're all marking time in "Phenomenal Acceleration," local playwright Tim's West's satirical new meditation on the millennium, where no fiction could be as bizarre as our worldwide reality. West Read More →
KPBS SUBMISSION DATE: NOVEMBER 1, 1999 If Flips is slang for Filipinos, then Flipzoids must be flipped-out Flips. All three characters in Ralph Pena's "Flipzoids" are lost, looking for a place to call home. The hyper-assimilated one seeks (anonymous) connection in a men's room. The young immigrant woman searches for an American identity in the dictionary and the mall. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: October 29, 1999 The La Jolla Playhouse production of "Sweet Bird of Youth" is like an elegant, fragile ceramic bowl. From a distance, it's lovely, but when you look closer, it's got lots of little cracks that mar the finished product. Some of the problem was in the clay, so to speak, what the potter or Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: OCTOBER 22, 1999 If religious fanatics had their way, some of the world's great works of art never would have seen the light of day. Someone's always brandishing a metaphorical fig-leaf, whether their sensibilities are offended by theater, music, books or visual art. Even today, vile forces conspire against genius and creativity, whenever it doesn't match their own doctrinaire agenda. Read More →
“San Diego is a hotbed of theater. Every year, I see 200-250 productions. This is fertile ground for new work. In addition to the prodigious local talent, theatermakers from around the country come here to premiere their latest creations. San Diego sends more shows to Broadway than nearly any other city in the U.S.”
-Pat Launer