Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: June 30, 2006 Love and greed. It’s a struggle to the death. In “Das Barbecü,” a wacky twist on Norse mythology, love conquers all. But a Brecht classic is considerably more sinister; in “Mother Courage,” war is hell, family is cherished, but making a buck trumps all. Bertolt Brecht was one of the most influential dramatists of Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 06/30/06 War is raging, alas and alack: A great time to bring Mother Courage back. While nostalgically and with bravado Starlight brought us Hot Mikado, And Miracle Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: June 23, 2006 They all want to be understood, to explain their perspective to the world. But in three theatrical instances, fictional and factual, we fail to understand. A reclusive man at the end of his life, and a pair of enigmatic couples: one patently absurd, the other, historical but thoroughly incomprehensible. Of course, meaninglessness was the whole Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 06/23/06 Hard to believe, but isn’t it nifty That this column is my number 150? Comedies, tragedies, deaths and scares, It’s all piled up (just like The Chairs). We’ve been through it together, by Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: June 16, 2006 Crazy comes in all kinds of colors. It can be driven by jealousy or genetics. In a drama and a comedy, lunacy trumps brilliance … and plot resolution. In Peter Shaffer’s “Amadeus,” the green-eyed monster makes a fiend of composer Antonio Salieri, who is the kingpin in the 18th century Viennese court -- until Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart enters laughing. In the Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 06/16/06 Comedy and drama in myriad hues From Amadeus to Five Shades of Blues. A New Theatre voice, a reading with stars And a totally whacked-out Christmas on Mars. 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