Put a Little Drama in your Life
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 01/19/07 With a Misbegotten Moon, what can you do For a Yellowman and demented Don Q? We’ve a surfeit of these lovers and fighters And a bevy of promising new Young Writers. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: January 19, 2007 Two plays fueled by booze, where bourbon plays a deadly role. Neither the classic nor the new work is primarily about the anguish of alcoholism. But it takes a terrible toll in both. Several of the dramas of theatrical titan Eugene O’Neill were frankly autobiographical; alcohol was a destructive force in the life of the playwright, and Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: January 12, 2007 Theater’s supposed to be provocative, right? So what better way to kick off the year than with a few plays about sex and politics? Or sex and war, to be precise. 6th @ Penn Theatre is filling its schedule with beguiling titles and bewitching fare. On weekends, it’s “Slut,” a solo show about a woman who really likes Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 01/12/07 Sex and war, in provocative plays And purple prose at the Pattés. Well, I have to say, the 10th anniversary of the Patté Awards for Theater Excellence was a stellar event. There was, of course, the champagne/hors d’oeuvre reception and the Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: January 05, 2007 Taking a musical from stage to screen is always a major challenge. But “Dreamgirls” has a truckload of extra baggage. First, of course, there’s the comparison to the original 1981 stage musical, which won six Tony Awards and ran for more than 1500 performances on Broadway. In brief: more glitz, less grit. Then, there’s the source material, the meteoric rise of Diana Ross Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 01/05/07 2006 was a political year, a year marked by peaks and valleys, comings and goings, stasis and change. And so it was in the local theater scene. Politics reared its head onstage in pieces old and new. Some plays commented directly on current governmental shenanigans -- such as the Read More →
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-Pat Launer