Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: April 8, 1992 I've always felt that dinner theater can be murder. But that was the old days, when you got a chicken leg and mashed potatoes to go with a soggy serving of Neil Simon. This is the nineties. Dinner theater is served up with murder and Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 05/04/07 There are Two Trains Running To Freedom NY Where, Under the Elms, desires uncork. TAKE THE A TRAIN THE SHOW: Two Trains Running , Read More →
SDNN: Feature on ADAM LAMBERT, American Idol By Pat Launer Title: ADAM LAMBERT: American Idol Returns to his Musical Theater Roots He walked in when he was 8, a strawberry blond, freckle-faced kid. He left at 17 looking pretty much the same. But in between, Adam Lambert developed into a charismatic triple-threat, which in musical theater terms, means Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: December 9, 1992 There's A Christmas Carol everywhere you go these days. Not only in elevators, department stores and telephone hold-lines, but also on stages around the county. The story by Charles Dickens has been with us for almost 150 years. And the San Diego Repertory Theatre has been twisting, turning, revising, revamping Read More →
By Pat Launer 7/29/03 Love, we know, is full of surprises, It comes in multiple shapes and sizes, It makes you cold, it makes you schvitz It strikes at the Globe as well as the Fritz: It thwarts the very best-laid plans Of straight men and gay men and Mae West Read More →
Published in Gay and Lesbian Times September 5, 2002 It was a lesbian breakthrough and a lesbian nightmare. While "The Killing of Sister George" knocked down barriers and opened eyes, it also drew the wrath of the gay community, since it gave a highly skewed view of lesbian life, all S&M and B&D and little more. Some boycotted and banned the 1968 film version of Frank Marcus' play, calling it 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