By Anne Marie Welsh [San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 April 2007]

Twenty-five years ago this summer, an intrepid group of San Diegans intent upon resuscitating the comatose La Jolla Playhouse flew en masse to New York. They watched a Public Theater production that included a mustard gas attack set to a waltz, an Englishman plummeting to his death while singing, and the Red Baron's biplane, gliding across the stage.