FEATURE: THE SHOW CANNOT ALWAYS GO ON: SAN DEGO THEATERS CONFRONT OMICRON SURGE
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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 1/16/22 RUN DATES: JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2022 VENUE: Theaters throughout the community Read the full review here. Read More →
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Pat Launer
Put a Little Drama in your Life
Reviews
2021 in Review… Best San Diego Theater of the Year
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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/28/21 Best of the Year... onstage and online Read the full review here. Read More →
“HYPE-MAN” streaming from co-presenter San Diego Repertory Theatre
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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 4/14/21 RUN DATES: 4/8/21 - 5/8/21 VENUE: A production of the American Repertory Theatre and Company One Theatre, co-presented by the San Diego REP “Sometimes, you gotta get on up and just say it!” Fight the power. Object to the status quo. Protest the senseless police killing of Black people. It took the (presumably fictional) Boston murder of 17 year-old Jerrod Davis — unarmed, but shot by police 18 times — to nearly break up a Read More →
“WITCHLAND” from Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company
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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 11/24/21 RUN DATES: 11/18/21 - 12/11/21 VENUE: Backyard Renaissance Theatre Ahh, lovely, pastoral Richland, situated in southeast Washington State, at the confluence of the Yakima and Columbia Rivers. A plethora of outdoor activities. Three hundred days of sunshine a year. And something a lot darker down below. In 1943, the U.S. Army established the Hanford Engineering Works (now called the Hanford Site). It was there, as part of the Manhattan Project, that 74 tons of Read More →
“AZUL” at Diversionary Theatre
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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/5/21 RUN DATES: 11/19/21 - 12/19/21 VENUE: Diversionary Theatre What are the odds? Two Cuba-set plays in one week. About Castro and the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. With Cuban music. At the same time OnStage Playhouse is premiering Herbert Sigüenza’s holiday show, “A People’s Cuban Christmas,” Diversionary Theatre is presenting the West coast premiere of “Azul,” by C Qunitana. Much of CQ’s 2019 play (which premiered at the Southern Rep Theatre in New Orleans) is Read More →
“A PEOPLE’S CUBAN CHRISTMAS” at OnStage Playhouse
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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/5/21 RUN DATES: 12/1/21 - 12/19/21 VENUE: OnStage Playhouse Can a person find redemption? Can a country? The former forms the spine of Charles Dickens’ 1843 classic, “A Christmas Carol.” The latter question is at the heart of Herbert Sigüenza’s “A People’s Cuban Christmas Tale,” having its world premiere at OnStage Playhouse in Chula Vista. In his Playwright’s Note in the digital program, Sigüenza, co-founder of the acclaimed Latino comedy troupe, Culture Clash, and resident playwright 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