Put a Little Drama in your Life
PAT LAUNER FOR: TIMES OF SAN DIEGO Posted: 6/17/14 Hold your (faux) horses! The coconut-clapping hooves are clopping again, King Arthur and his Knights have returned. Silliness reigns supreme in the Tony Award-winning “ Spamalot ,” which is getting a superb airing at Moonlight Stage Productions in Vista. Having the original Broadway sets and costumes doesn’t hurt. The whole Read More →
PAT LAUNER TIMES OF SAN DIEGO Posted: 6/13/14 If you ever wondered about all those eerily smiling skeletal faces and sugar skulls in Mexican-themed gift shops, “The Journey of the Skeletons” will tell you everything you ever wanted to know… multiple times, in multiple ways… about Aztec history and the Mexican and Mexican-American celebration of El Dia de los Read More →
PAT LAUNER TIMES OF SAN DIEGO Posted 5/27/14 Got Chekhov? Christopher Durang does. The acclaimed American playwright has a fascination with the legendary Russian dramatist. The latest of Durang’s famously quirky works, “ Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” won five prestigious awards for Best Play of 2013, including the Tony. It was hailed Read More →
PAT LAUNER FOR: TIMES OF SAN DIEGO 5/9/14 Here’s a chance to be part of history. Well, a little slice of it, anyway. Lamb’s Players Theatre is trying to get into the Guinness Book of World Records, presenting the longest marathon theatrical performance ever. It’s a brilliant idea, conceived by development director Colleen Collar Smith as a Read More →
PAT LAUNER FOR: TIMES OF SAN DIEGO 5/5/14 “There’s times when it’s kosher for Jews to be a ham.” So goes a (somewhat lame and questionably grammatical) lyric in one of the goofy songs in the Lyceum show called “Old Jews Telling Jokes.” Okay, they aren’t all ‘old.’ There are two young Jews (one of whom isn’t actually Jewish… but who’s Read More →
PAT LAUNER TIMES OF SAN DIEGO Posted: 4/28/14 It’s a veritable epidemic: Holmes-mania. Sherlock, that beloved sleuth, is featured in two current TV shows. And now, along comes Coronado Playhouse with the end of his tale: a stage adaptation of two Arthur Conan Doyle stories as well as an original play the Mystery Master wrote with William Gillette, conflated in 2006 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