Part 1 of My Retirement Recollections: My Lifelong Love of Theater
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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/8/22 Read the full review here. Read More →
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Pat Launer
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PART 2 of my Retirement Recollections: 40 Years of San Diego Theater
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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/10/22 Read the full review here. Read More →
Feature: On Retiring, Part 1: My lifelong love affair with theater
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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/9/22 https://timesofsandiego.com/arts/2022/12/09/retiring-critic-pat-launer-reflects-on-a-40-year-love-affair-with-theater/ ©2022 PAT LAUNER/Patté Productions, Inc. Read More →
Feature: Part 2 of my Retirement Recollections: Highlights of 40 years of San Diego theater
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Sam Woodhouse Retires and Reminisces after 46 years at the San Diego Repertory Theatre
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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/25/22 Sam Woodhouse doesn’t like to look back. Or forward. He prefers to live in the moment. That’s not so surprising for someone who majored in Religious Studies for a time at UC Santa Barbara, with an emphasis on Asian religions, before switching over to theater and attending grad school at Cal Arts in Valencia. But, after nearly a half-century at the helm of the San Diego Repertory Theatre, just as he’s about to Read More →
A Eulogy for the San Diego Repertory Theatre
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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 6/10/22 We’ve all experienced so much loss in the last 2+ years: personal, political, and pandemic-related. We’ve become inured to a new horror every day. But on June 7, when the San Diego Repertory Theatre announced that it was suspending operations and shutting its doors, it really hit me hard. Over the 46 years of its existence (not all of which I lived in San Diego), I figure I’ve seen about 300 of its 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