Put a Little Drama in your Life
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 05/05/04 From 3rd-grade Shakespeareans on up the Food Chain To the McDermott Trio's legerdemain. While Angels and obsessives bitch and whine; Shirley gives herself a Valentine. "Shirley Valentine" can't quite figure out how she got where she is. How did Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 06/30/04 While political drama seethes in "Aloes" And the "Movin' Out" greasers get war-time lonely, Romance sings out under Moonlight and Starlight In "Triumph of Love" and "My One and Only." "A Lesson from Aloes" starts quietly. Little happens. We meet a Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 09/08/04 Whatta week of theater, Dios Mio! I saw Intimate Apparel on Antony and Cleo When, As You Like It, they took their pleasure, (Mixed with pain, Measure for Measure). They were the stars, the gifted, The Chosen… Now -- like Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 11/03/04 A "Brownstone' holds many secrets within And a 'Prodigal Son' is steeped in sin; As Macbeth would predict, before his fall: 'Stuff Happens' to us all. When I first saw "The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?" in New York (the original Broadway Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 01/05/05 One of our best years of theater has come to an end And a new year begins, with more shows to attend. An auspicious start is this week’s good news: Naomi Iizuka’s dazzling “36 Views.” Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 03/03/05 This week’s theater was deliciously rife With dark comedies of domestic strife. Devious dilemmas became acute In ‘Vigil’ and in ‘La Dispute’ But the farcical side of the faithless life Showed in ‘Private Fittings’ and ‘The Allergist’s 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