Put a Little Drama in your Life
PAT LAUNER TIMES OF SAN DIEGO 4/17/14 “In the Heights” is all about getting a break, or getting another chance. And so is “In the Heights” at San Diego City College. Director June Richards and co-director/choreographer Alicia Rincon have assembled a cast of newbies and more experienced talent. Some are in the Theater Department at the College. Read More →
PAT LAUNER TIMES OF SAN DIEGO 4/15/14 He’s a bona fide American hero: wise, compassionate father; upright, ethical attorney; staunch defender of the weak and oppressed. So what if he’s a fictional character? Atticus Finch is a paragon of parenthood and moral integrity. It’s hard not to love him as much as Scout does. Atticus Read More →
PAT LAUNER TIMES OF SAN DIEGO 4/15/14 He’s a bona fide American hero: wise, compassionate father; upright, ethical attorney; staunch defender of the weak and oppressed. So what if he’s a fictional character? Atticus Finch is a paragon of parenthood and moral integrity. It’s hard not to love him as much as Scout does. Atticus Read More →
Pat Launer TimesofSanDiego.com 4/8/14 Samuel D. Hunter writes about everyday folks in small-town Idaho, where he grew up. They’re ordinary people, faced by extraordinary circumstances – at least in the context of their fairly mundane lives. In “The Whale,” a wonderful work that won multiple awards in New York last year, it was a 600-pound online teacher, eating himself to Read More →
Pat Launer TimesofSanDiego.com 4/2/14 At the opening night of Massenet’s “Don Quixote,” possibly the San Diego Opera’s final production, it was hard not to hum ‘The Impossible Dream.’ Given the financial constraints the company complained of when ringing its own death knell a few weeks ago, it was difficult not to feel that 70 people onstage, with multiple, elaborate sets, is extreme and excessive, Read More →
Pat Launer TimesofSanDiego 4/3/14 Piecing and snipping, stitching and stuffing. That’s what it takes to create a quilt – and tell a life story, a dictum that’s repeated throughout the musical “Quilters,” making its return to Lamb’s Players Theatre for the third time. It’s all about prairie women, and how they documented – and escaped from – the hardships, joys and 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