Put a Little Drama in your Life
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 12/07/07 It’s the wackiest week you’ve ever seen: From Scrooge in Harlem to a Math Team Queen, The Grinch and a family put to the test As ‘Cyrano’ hits the Asian Wild West. Read More →
TimesofSanDiego.com on 4/18/17 RUN DATES: 4/12/17 - 5/7/17 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre What every uptight, passive, bourgeois milquetoast needs is an Auntie Mame or an Aunt Augusta to show him the finer points of the amoral, hedonistic life. Henry Pulling spent his first 50+ years in a safe, predictable existence, a banker who never ventured out of his London suburb. Then his mother died, and at the funeral, he meets his dynamic, assertive, irresistible septuagenarian Aunt Augusta, and before Read More →
Aired on KSDS-FM on 9/2/16 RUN DATES: 7/14/16 - 9/18/16 VENUE: The Old Globe “Words, words, words,” as Hamlet would say. But “Love’s Labor’s Lost” came earlier, and it’s punch-drunk on language. Every character is besotted with his or her own wit, affinity or verbosity. Shakespeare was sending up the writing styles of his time. It makes for a clever linguistic exercise. On the outdoor Festival Stage, The Old Globe has mounted a splendid production, gorgeously designed to resemble Read More →
patlauner.com Blog Post on 5/11/18 RUN DATES: 5/10/18 - 5/17/18 VENUE: UC San Diego I just saw a terrific play in the Wagner New Play Festival at UCSD . “How to Defend Yourself,” by Lily Padilla, a third year MFA student in the playwriting program, is a knockout. Another of her works was in the La Jolla Playhouse WoW Festival (“And Then You Wait”). This one has an offstage centerpiece: a campus rape, which engenders all manner of feelings, Read More →
Pat Launer on San Diego Theater By Pat Launer , SDNN February 18, 2010 http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2010-02-17/things-to-do/theater-things-to-do/an-inspector-calls-a-delicate-balance-plus-theater-news THE SHOW: “An Inspector Calls ,” a psychological thriller and a Lamb’s Players Theatre revival He shuffles in, wrinkled raincoat and all. Columbo with Read More →
“ KNOWING CAIRO ” at The Globe Theatres & “ FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIRE DE LUNE ” at Vantage Theatre & “ DEPORTING THE DIVAS ” at Diversionary Theatre KPBS AIRDATE: April 11, 2003 In the heart and on the stage, love is a fickle, unpredictable business. At three different theaters, folks of varied ages, customs and cultures battle with their Read More →
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-Pat Launer