Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: April 02, 2004 Christ is on the cross in the movies, God is being debated in the Pledge of Allegiance, and we’ve got crucifixion and redemption on San Diego stages. The dramatist shoots for satire and the theologian for philosophical fantasy. Spiritual matters are at the heart of “The Great Divorce” and “Resurrection Blues.” Morality has always been on Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 03/31/04 It was a week of spiritual connection: From a crucifixion to a 'Resurrection,' With Hell and Heaven charting their course In C.S. Lewis' 'Great Divorce' And 'Frankie and Johnny' were overheard Saying, L'amour? Bien sur -- C'est Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: March 26, 2004 Theater is all about illusion, and so, quite often, is love. We all see what we want to see, believe what we want to believe, even in the face of hard-edged reality. This theme recurs, poignantly, in three knockout productions currently on San Diego stages. What we expect of a lover, a mother, a woman, a man is not always what Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 03/24/04 This week, the stage was estrogen-fueled; Chicks rocked, females ruled (Though some were less than bona fide -- like the one who's utterly 'Butterflied'). Some are Divas, some are shady; A Spider Woman and a Gingerbread Lady. Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: March 19, 2004 Sex and violence are frequent bedfellows on stage and screen. But playwright Nilo Cruz has the unique ability to marry menace and romanticism in the lush, steamy plays he sets in his native Cuba. In the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Anna in the Tropics," and in "Two Sisters and a Piano," currently receiving a poignant production at the Old Globe, it is language Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 03/17/04 You know what they always say: Life is just a cabaret But that thought warrants another look When you're a boy who's fallen into a book. And I, 'mid all the rigmarole, Just put myself in Cruz control Read More →
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-Pat Launer