Put a Little Drama in your Life
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 11/03/04 A "Brownstone' holds many secrets within And a 'Prodigal Son' is steeped in sin; As Macbeth would predict, before his fall: 'Stuff Happens' to us all. When I first saw "The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?" in New York (the original Broadway Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 10/05/07 Don Q is fictional; Oscar’s not there, And the Globe is hosting A Catered Affair. Oh, that Wacky Uncle Harvey THE SHOW: A Catered Affair, a world premiere Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: JULY 16, 1992 This Lettice is no vegetable. Miss Lettice Duffet is an irrepressible English tour-guide with a passion for history, theater and embellishment. She is working at Fustian House, which she considers to be "the dullest house in England." The history of the place being so terminally boring, she finds it necessary in her Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: April 21, 1993 In the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the Cold War, the nation is wounded. In "States of Shock," Sam Shepard's latest play, we survey the whole American landscape in the person of five characters: all the unhealed responses to overt and covert combat. The White Woman and White Man just want to Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 08/12/05 Theater entertains us in so many ways: From a musical ‘ Zhivago ’ to a host of New Plays, From ‘Ragtime’s’ tale of American strife To the comic mayhem of the ‘Allergist’s Wife.’ Let’s face Read More →
PAT LAUNER SAN DIEGO JEWISH JOURNAL DECEMBER 2011 Feature: Broadway Pops Suggested Title: The Virtues of a Virtuoso: The San Diego Symphony brings back violin luminary Itzhak Perlman http://sdjewishjournal.com/site/3120/raise-the-curtain/ At age 3, he taught himself to play on a toy fiddle. He had perfect pitch, precocious 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