Put a Little Drama in your Life
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 06/22/07 Three fierce women, wild and fearless, Don’t make for shows that are perfect or peerless. OVERVIEW : It’s a big week for women: death-defying females are the centerpiece of two world premieres Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: December 19, 1991 Garrison Keillor knows that good radio is fun to watch. So does Blackfriars Theatre. They're back with an all new, improved version of last year's runaway fund-raising hit, "More of the Laughing Buddha Wholistik Radio Theatre." A door slams. We hear footsteps approaching. And we see Read More →
Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/21/17 RUN DATES: 2/9/17 - 3/19/17 VENUE: Diversionary Theatre Lisa Kron won two Tony Awards in her first foray on Broadway: Best Book of a Musical and (with composer Jeannine Tesori) Best Score. The show, “Fun Home,” was named Best Musical of 2015, and it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. . But long before that, Kron was known as a founding member of a satirical, feminist theater troupe, The Five Lesbian Brothers. And Read More →
Aired on KSDS-FM on 11/4/16 RUN DATES: 10/14/16 - 11/13/16 VENUE: New Village Arts Kids are little sponges, right? From birth, they soak up whatever oozes or spews from their parents. Never was this so graphically demonstrated as in Yazmina Reza’s 2008 dramedy, “God of Carnage.” The first salvo is fired in a playground brawl, where one 11 year-old hits another with a stick, knocking out some teeth and injuring his pride. But the real carnage comes when the Read More →
Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 4/22/18 RUN DATES: 4/19/18 - 4/29/18 VENUE: La Jolla Playhouse site-specific WoW production An admonition courses through “What Happens Next,” a world premiere produced by the La Jolla Playhouse, in association with L.A.’s Cornerstone Theatre: “If you haven’t been there, you can’t understand.” The ‘there’ is war – specifically, in this case, the recent (ongoing) wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Award-winning playwright Naomi Iizuka, head of the MFA Playwriting program at UC San Diego, was commissioned by Read More →
Published in Gay and Lesbian Times August 22, 2002 Arthur Miller never really goes out of style (though he may shift in and out of popularity), because his plays deal primarily with morality and social conscience. Preachy or not, we need him now, more than ever. "All My Sons" was Miller's first successful play. When it premiered in 1947, it foreshadowed his later, greater masterwork, 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