Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: OCTOBER 7, 1998 Writers have always been fascinated by the oddball, the eccentric, the loner, the misfit, the social outcast. Bernard Pomerance focused on perhaps the most outrageous example of all John Merrick, AKA “The Elephant Man,” a freak of nature so hideous that he was rejected by just about everyone. Harvey Fierstein turned his pen Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: SEPTEMBER 30, 1998 It’s officially the end of summer, and in its season playoffs, the Old Globe got three times at bat: they knocked one clear out of the park, then they hit a line drive for a solid double. But the last time at the plate, the theater struck out. Let me explain. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: SEPTEMBER 23, 1998 Comedy is serious business. It isn’t easy to write, and it isn’t easy to get right. It requires language facility, physical agility, impeccable timing, and a modicum of restraint. It’s a lot less funny if it’s played for laughs. Two current comic offerings are so conspicuous in their efforts to be Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: SEPTEMBER 16, 1998 Two richly dark and beautiful productions -- worlds, continents and centuries apart -- but each remarkably true to its source. It’s times like these that remind us why the Old Globe and the La Jolla Playhouse are Tony Award-winning theaters -- when they use their foresight and funds to bring in outstanding guest artists to illuminate classics like “Romeo and Juliet,” and commission new Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: SEPTEMBER 2, 1998 Audiences love to look behind the curtain, and theater people love to look into the mirror, so it’s a perfect match. Plays within plays and plays about the making of plays have been treading the boards ever since there were boards to tread... and the ‘Hey Kids! Let’s put on a play!’ scenario never Read More →
Published in In Theater September 1998 It’s big. It’s brash. It’s filmic. It’s epic. And it was anybody’s guess how it would translate onto the stage. But “Dogeaters” takes a bite out of the doubters and chews up the skeptics. Poet/novelist/screenwriter/multimedia theater artist Jessica Hagedorn has remained remarkably true to her best-selling 1990 novel (a National Book 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