Put a Little Drama in your Life
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 10/27/04 A wide range of theater; on the comical side Both 'Fit to Be Tried' and 'Fit to be Tied!' Dramatically/thematically, 'A Girl's War' was callous; And musically speaking, A is for '…Alice.' Nicky Silver is a nutcase. His plays are filled with Read More →
Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 10/8/18 RUN DATES: 10/3/18 - 10/28/18 VENUE: Cygnet Theatre Call the PC Police! If you have any penchant toward Political Correctness, Taylor Mac is here to disabuse you of every sacrosanct notion, every sacred cow, every meme, trope or bromide about… well, just about everything. Tighten your seatbelts; it’s gonna be a bumpy (but uproarious) ride. Mac, an acclaimed New York writer/composer/performer, is a pioneer of questioning gender norms who prefers to be referred to by Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: March 16, 2007 Everybody needs some bawdy. And that’s just what you get in “Restoration Comedy,” the latest work by the award-winning San Francisco playwright Amy Freed. She conflated two popular comic works from late 17th century England, Love’s Last Shift, or Virtue Rewarded, and its sequel, The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger. Both were written in 1696, during the Restoration, which came just after the Read More →
Aired on KSDS-FM on 12/2/16 RUN DATES: 11/19/16 - 12/23/16 VENUE: ion theatre In the early 1980s, young, vibrant gay men were dropping dead in droves. One angry, combative activist became hellbent on finding out why, and getting funding for research. AIDS didn’t even have a name yet. But everyone was turning a blind eye to the crisis. Larry Kramer, long-time writer and agitator, documented his experience in battling the rampant institutional lack of interest from the government, the media, the Read More →
Aired on KSDS-FM on 4/20/18 RUN DATES: 4/11/18 - 5/13/18 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre He may be England’s most prolific playwright: 82 plays and counting, over the last 60 years. He may be a knight. He may create juicy and colorful characters. But the comedies of Sir Alan Ayckbourn are rife with cynicism – especially about marriage. And despite the fact that his 1982 diversion, “How the Other Half Loves,” is as clever as his other works, it Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: March 01, 2003 For many of us, the '60s was the defining decade of our lifetime. And the seminal events of that era were marked by music. We females went from whiners to young women, from preteens to protesters. After the assassinations and the British invasion, we all lost our innocence -- one way or another. Okay, maybe the all-girl musical revue "Beehive" isn't Read More →
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-Pat Launer