Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: February 16, 2007 Here’s a dramatic coincidence: two plays about writers in conflict and competition. About the creative process, the price of fame -- and the toll success takes on relationships. One of the comic dramas is a world premiere by a 29 year-old playwright. The other is a recent work by a Pulitzer Prize winner. The Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 02/09/07 No matter the season (beggin’ yer pardon): You might get Hay Fever in The Secret Garden THE SHOW: Hay Fever, a 1925 comedy of manners by the inimitable mocker of manners, Noël Coward THE BACKSTORY: Written Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: February 09, 2007 Ahh, the idle rich. They have an overabundance of time – to abandon their relatives and debase their friends. Whether effete snobs or petulant little girls, the wannabes take a drubbing in two veddy English plays: Noël Coward’s “Hay Fever” and the musical version of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved classic, “The Secret Garden.” Young Mary Lennox is Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 02/02/07 It must have been written in the stars To spend the week with two different Czars! Both Tevye and Boris had Russian fear, While Tennessee viewed things Cloudy and Clear. And whaddaya know? I developed a yen Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: January 26, 2007 Absent passion is unfulfilling anywhere, but it’s particularly unsatisfying in the theater. If there’s a romance onstage, you want to believe in the infatuation; if the obsession is less personal, you want it to absorb you as much as the character. Alas, in two new plays, we are not aroused – either by ardor or enthusiasm. In Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 01/26/07 The Heart of a Dog is a very weird place There are Happy Endings in Night Music and Ace. If all this theater makes you feel thin-skinned Just stand up and aim 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