BEST SAN DIEGO THEATER PRODUCTIONS OF 2022
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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/30/22 Read the full review here. Read More →
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Pat Launer
Put a Little Drama in your Life
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2010-2020 Looking Back on a Decade of San Diego Theater
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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/30/19 Perusing my “Best of the Year” lists over the 2010s, I noticed first how the local theater landscape had changed. Some of the most powerful and memorable productions came from theater companies that are no longer with us — most notably, tiny, spiky/spunky, risk-taking ion theater and the aptly-named Intrepid Theatre (still alive, but focused now on outreach and education, rather than producing new work). Over the course of the decade, we also Read More →
FEATURE/PREVIEW: San Diego Rep’s Latinx New Play Festival
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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 8/28/21 RUN DATES: 9/3/21 - 9/6/21 VENUE: Live and online It isn’t the first, and it won’t be the last. But it is the most flexibly accessible. The 5th annual San Diego REP Latinx New Play Festival is a hybrid affair. There are three ways to enjoy the weekend Festival (9/3-5), which celebrates the work of Latinx playwrights from across the nation: You can attend the event live (while the REP space is undergoing renovations, the Festival 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 →
FEATURE: “DIANA: THE MUSICAL” coming to Netflix and Broadway in 2021
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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/30/21 It’s been a really rough year for the British Royals. Now, along comes “Diana, the Musical,” for all the world to see… and Broadway, too. The show, which premiered in 2019 at the La Jolla Playhouse, was scheduled to open on Broadway last March. It was two weeks into previews when it was forced to shutter because of the pandemic. “Diana the Musical” celebrates the life of Princess Diana and chronicles her stratospheric Read More →
2020 Theater Year in Review
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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/30/20 It was a tough and terrible year — in oh, so many ways. Theaters and theatermakers were especially hard-hit. Nationwide, all theater spaces were closed down, and all those who lovingly toil in those spaces lost their gigs and their livelihood — including designers, directors, actors, musicians, stage managers, technicians and more. Some of them may not make it through. But on the upside, theatermakers remained endlessly imaginative and resourceful, and they found 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