Put a Little Drama in your Life
Patch.com Coronado and La Mesa 4/24/12 By Pat Launer Leigh Scarritt, along with two performers from recent Lamb’s Players productions, stars in “Respect: A Musical Journey of Women,” in downtown San Diego La Mesa Patch: Helix Grad Kelsey Venter Stars in Lyceum Theatre Production of 'Respect' Venter shares the Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: January 20, 2006 The year is getting off to a potent political start on San Diego stages. Whether it’s comedy, tragedy or docu -drama, ancient or modern, theater does a great job of making us take a good look around and close look inside. “ Ajax ,” a 2500-year old Read More →
Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/3/20 RUN DATES: 1/24/20 - 3/1/20 VENUE: New Village Arts One piano. Four hands. Two performers. Thirteen characters. Fourteen songs. 100 minutes. I’ll do the math: It all adds up to one wacky, manic mystery. “Murder for Two,” by Joe Kinosian (book and music) and Kellen Blair (book and lyrics), premiered at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre in 2011. It had an eight-month run Off Broadway in 2013-2014. In 2015, it arrived at The Old Globe, with Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: January 13, 2006 This is Our Youth. It’s the name of a play, and the theme for the month on local stages. Young people are in the spotlight in a variety of venues. Coming up at Diversionary Theatre, there’s a staged reading of the play that established the reputation of playwright/screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan. “This is Our Youth” concerns Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: AUGUST 18, 2000 If I want to see "The Taming of the Shrew," I'll go see Shakespeare… or "Kiss Me, Kate," Cole Porter's brilliant 1948 musical. But I don't need a nasty, retro, unfunny, misogynistic supposed comedy written in 1997 by that British curmudgeon, Alan Ayckbourn. "Things We Do For Love" gives us all the stereotypes the playwright Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: March 20, 1996 If I were on the Pulitzer Prize committee, Wendy Wasserstein and her “Heidi Chronicles” never would’ve won. But I wasn’t and she did, and the rest is theater history. She is one of the most acclaimed woman playwrights in America, and that in itself is an accomplishment. She makes people laugh, and that is, 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