Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: September 08, 2006 There’s a dramatic fall harvest you might not know about in San Diego – fresh, new theater groups are springing up, and new plays are being cultivated. 6th @ Penn Theatre and downtown’s newest venue, New World Stage, have a busy schedule hosting fledgling companies and premiering new works. Reconnoiter Theater just made an impressive debut at 6th @ Penn, with Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: September 01, 2006 A conversation took place 65 years ago, and it’s still a matter of controversy and conjecture. It was 1941. Denmark was under Nazi occupation. German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a dangerous, clandestine visit to his former mentor, Danish physicist Niels Bohr. Although the two brilliant, Nobel Prize-winning scientists were colleagues and friends, they were on opposite sides of the war, both Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 09/01/06 Millie gets a Push while digging for gold And in Copenhagen , memories slowly unfold. THE SHOW: COPENHAGEN , Michael Frayn’s Tony Award-winning drama (Best Play, 2000) Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: August 25, 2006 Theater, where the old meets the new. A fledgling company marks a great playwright’s centenary, and the Old Globe presents a provocative world premiere. A celebration of two influential men: Henrik Ibsen, the father of modern drama, and Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president. “Lincolnesque” is the title of Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 08/25/06 No one can be hyper-critical When good plays become political Lincolnesque is in D.C. And Eyolf’s by a Norway sea. While Five Cups is Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: August 18, 2006 Summer is an especially good time to take the kids to the theater. They can relish staying out late, sitting under the stars, and if perchance, sleep begins to overtake them, they’re already wrapped in a blanket. But two current shows should enthrall them: a beloved musical, “The Wizard of Oz,” and one of the world’s greatest ghost stories that spark 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