Put a Little Drama in your Life
Patch.com Encinitas 10/24/11 PAT LAUNER North Coast Repertory Theatre spends an evening with three wartime “Heroes” You might think that three old World War I veterans sitting around talking wouldn’t be very dramatic. And you’d be right. But “Heroes” has other things to offer. Tony and Oscar-winning playwright Tom Stoppard adapted a 2003 French Read More →
Patch.com Santee 10/20/11 PAT LAUNER Jerry Hager directs and tours his own adaptation of the classic tales Twenty years ago, when Jerry Hager met the chair of the Grossmont College Theatre Arts Department, he noticed a picture of Marcel Marceau hanging behind the desk. “It was kismet,” says the 28 year-resident of Read More →
Patch.com Santee 9/28/11 PAT LAUNER San Diego Dance Theater culminates its 13th annual site-specific community event at the Santee Trolley Square Town Center Tote up the numbers: 12 miles of track, 6 offbeat sites, 55 talented dancers, 5 imaginative choreographers, and gobs of intrigued onlookers. It’s the 13th year of Trolley Dances, Read More →
Patch.com Santee 4/10/11 PAT LAUNER San Diego Dance Theater brings its 13th annual Trolley Dances to Santee Talk about a moving performance. Trolley Dances is emotion, diversion, action, passion and transportation all rolled into one. This unique multi-location, site-specific urban event, created by Jean Isaacs, founding artistic director of San Diego Dance Read More →
Patch.com Encinitas 9/13/11 PAT LAUNER North Coast Repertory Theatre opens its 30th season with the madcap hilarity of “Lend Me a Tenor” If the economy, the blackout, the weather and the interminable political wrangling have got you down, the pick-me-up you need is a good old-fashioned, hyperkinetic, door-slamming, mistaken-identity farce. Read More →
Patch.com Coronado 8/8/11 By Pat Launer Review: ACT San Diego youth theater brings local prem iere of the Tony Award-winning musical to the Coronado School of the Arts. http://coronado.patch.com/articles/spring-awakening-puts-teen-angst-center-stage Who can ever get inside the head of an anguished teenager? “Spring 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