Q&A with the San Diego Union-Tribune about my Retirement
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Posted at the SanDiegoUnionTribune.com on 12/20/22 Read the full review here. Read More →
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Pat Launer
Put a Little Drama in your Life
Reviews
“TROUBLE IN MIND” at The Old Globe
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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/13/22 RUN DATES: 2/10/22 - 3/13/22 VENUE: The Old Globe Some works of art don’t stand the test of time. Others, though created decades, or even centuries ago, feel like they could have sprung forth yesterday. Happily for the art but sadly for the continued relevance, “Trouble in Mind” by Alice Childress, is a work that endures. Though the sometimes-comic drama is more than a half-century old, it could easily have been penned by any of Read More →
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 →
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 →
“RIPPLES FROM WALDEN POND” from Write Out Loud
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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/3/22 RUN DATES: 11/17/22 - 12/10/22 VENUE: Write Out Loud at the Tenth Avenue Arts Center Two years, two months and two days. That’s how long Henry David Thoreau (1817-1863) spent in the little 10’x15’ cabin he built on the beautiful, wooded Walden Pond near Concord, MA, where his family lived. The land was owned by his generous friend, essayist and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thoreau spent most of his time “sauntering,” immersing himself in nature, Read More →
“THE YELLOW WALLPAPER” from Write Out Loud
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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 11/20/22 RUN DATES: 11/17/22 - 12/10/22 VENUE: Write Out Loud at the Tenth Avenue Arts Center There’s been a lot of talk about the patriarchy lately, especially in relation to men making decisions and laws that govern women’s bodies and lives. We thought we’d gotten past all that years ago, but it keeps rearing its ugly head. Charlotte Perkins Gilman knew all about it when, in 1897, she wrote and published (in the New England Magazine, 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