Put a Little Drama in your Life
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 11/23/04 A week chock-full of laughter and tears: Liz, Hecuba and The Last Five Years. With Sir Patient, too, it sure was a tank- ful ; Plenty of theater for which to be thankful. A Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: November 19, 2004 German playwright Freidrich Hebbel once said, “In a play, everybody’s right.” Well, in Sam Shepard’s "A Lie of the Mind," it seems like everybody’s wrong. This 1985 Big Sky, Western epic is populated by disaffected losers, loners and deserted lovers – all adrift in chaos and confusion. Even as they are beaten, shot, humiliated or abused, these troubled, Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 11/17/04 Women on the verge and men unkind: “Princess Ida” and “A Lie of the Mind” With “Hyper-Focus,” it’s plain to see: They’re all probably suffering from ADD! In this season of crazy, senseless acts, “A Lie of the Mind” (which is what Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: November 12, 2004 Sometimes, it's best to leave a classic alone. It doesn't need to be updated, cross-gendered, race-mixed or musicalized. If it's classic, it can survive on its own -- unadorned. Two current cases in point: "A Streetcar Named Desire" at UCSD and "The Goodbye Girl" at Moonlight Stage Productions. Neil Simon's comical movie was a Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 11/10/04 Blanche always sets the night on fire In Williams' "A Streetcar named Desire." In "The Goodbye Girl," nothing's more absurd Than an outrageously gay/fey Richard III. Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, "A Streetcar Named Desire," is a brilliant, complex study Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: November 5, 2004 A killer, a dreamer and a goat-lover. Take your pick; it's a wild week of high-tension drama -- on the theatrical as well as political stage. The murderer is "Macbeth," that megalomaniacal Thane who, with his malignant wife, kills a passel of people in order to fulfill the kingly prophesies of the cackling, cauldron-stirring 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