“curtain Calls” #190
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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 04/27/07 Learn to Drive with Li’l Bit Get your poetry from Wit And be provoked, in many ways, By the UCSD Fest of New Plays Read More →
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“curtain Calls” #189
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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 04/20/07 Enchanted April means Italian heaven, Dancers are On the Spot with Seven, As we sing Wozzeck’s elegy New Plays spring forth at UCSD. WHISPERS AND Read More →
“sailor’s Song” At New Village Arts / “the Treatment” At Moxie Theatre
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KPBS AIRDATE: April 13, 2007 It’s a rare and singular experience, the kind every theaterlover lives for – having a response to a production that’s so visceral, so intense, it literally takes your breath away. This week, I had it twice. Both plays were about life and death. But one focuses on love, and one on war. Small San Diego theaters presenting West coast premieres by Read More →
“curtain Calls” #188
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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 04/13/07 The Oresteia’s Treatment is conflated, While a Sailor’s Song is celebrated. Each Hold, Please gal becomes an arch-rival But Renny and Backbone are tales of survival. Read More →
“menopause The Musical” At Diversionary Theatre
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Pat Launer KPBS-FM Airdate: April 06, 2007 Most women wouldn’t exactly find menopause something to sing about… unless they’re singin ’ the blues. But writer/producer Jeanie Linders thought there was plenty of humor to wring out of The Change. So, gearing her show to her 38 million Baby Boomer comadres , she took two Read More →
“the Long Christmas Ride Home” At Diversionary Theatre
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Pat Launer KPBS-FM Airdate: March 30, 2007 Leave the children snug in their beds. The puppets in “the Long Christmas Ride Home” aren’t kid-friendly cuties, though they are kids. The life-sized bunraku puppets were written into the play by Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel, to stand in for the vulnerable, easily manipulated children in a traumatized family. She specified that they shouldn’t 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