Put a Little Drama in your Life
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 10/014/05 Illness, anarchy, The American Dream; Things aren’t always what they seem. In “Dog Act,” the future is dotted with dangers, Cancer becomes the destroyer in “Strangers,” Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 06/09/06 Bright and funny, sweet and meek; This was Wendy Wasserstein week. Three nights of Wendy and her ‘sisters’ And all their (undesirable) Misters. And all Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 02/09/07 No matter the season (beggin’ yer pardon): You might get Hay Fever in The Secret Garden THE SHOW: Hay Fever, a 1925 comedy of manners by the inimitable mocker of manners, Noël Coward THE BACKSTORY: Written Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 09/28/07 Dear Miss Breed is anything but silly (Though that can’t be said of Modern Millie); Lou’s Camelot King may leave you cravin ’ But no musical gaffes in Ain’t Misbehavin ’. Read More →
PAT LAUNER - posted on TimesofSanDiego.com RUN DATES: 12/11/15-12/20/15 VENUE: InnerMission Productions The statistics are appalling – but then, so is sending young boys off to brutal wars in foreign lands and expecting them to come back unscathed, and re-integrate into society on their own. One in five of the 2.7 million American veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Most shocking: twenty-two veterans commit suicide every day. In the world premiere, “Disappearing Read More →
Aired at KSDS-FM on 5/20/16 RUN DATES: 5/5/16 - 6/12/16 VENUE: Diversionary Theatre There are some stories you just can’t imagine becoming musicals: but a serial killer gave us “Sweeney Todd” and Presidential murderers inspired “Assassins.” Now, along comes “The Boy Who Danced on Air,” a stomach-churning tale of the buying and abuse of young boys in Afghanistan, a long-standing tradition called Bacha Bazi, or “boy play.” The youths are dressed as girls and taught to dance for 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