Put a Little Drama in your Life
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 03/24/05 Strange bedfellows for a theatrical trio: A comedy, revue, and ‘ Antony and Cleo.’ ‘Reverse Psychology’ will make you glad To return, evermore, to ‘Forever Plaid.’ QUEEN OF Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: March 18, 2005 Boys will be boys. Right now, you can get a bellyful of jerks, weirdos and overgrown adolescents on San Diego stages. The self-proclaimed jerk is in “The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron,” an often-hilarious one-man show about how men are hard-wired for idiocy. A lot of their nasty habits and unconscionable acts toward women are, says engaging actor Miles Stroth, directly Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 03/17/05 It was ‘A Thousand Clowns’ all right, some males sans introspect; From the blood-sucking, singing ‘Bat Boy’ to the oxymoron ‘Male Intellect.’ When you’re trapped in a Kafkaesque circumstance Make like Martha and Gina: ‘When life’s weird, we dance!’ What do you get when you cross Tommy, Hedwig, Dracula, Edward Scissorhands and JC Superstar? A charismatic weirdo, of course. It’s Bat Boy, now (briefly) appearing in “Bat Boy ,The Musical,” a wacky, garish sendup of Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: March 11, 2005 All’s fun in love and war – and beauty contests. Society is aptly skewered in two satirical comedies – George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” and Robert Longbottom’s “Pageant.” Human folly never looked so good. In the 1991 musical, with book and lyrics by Bill Russell and Frank Kelly, music by Albert Evans, the competition Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 03/10/05 Beauty is as beauty does And ‘Pageant’s’ the wildest that ever was. But in the Moonlight, beneath the tan, You can see The Arms AND The Man. War is hell. But some people romanticize Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: March 04, 2005 How do you like your comedy? – Leaning more to the sitcom or the Britcom? The farcically silly or the darkly satiric? A big, brash extravaganza or a tiny, intimate tête à tête? Well, choose your comedic poison – or knock yourself out and see both. The La Jolla Playhouse is inaugurating its new Potiker 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