Put a Little Drama in your Life
Published in Gay and Lesbian Times December 12, 2002 'Tis the season… to get Scrooged. Come on, you can get it up for Ebenezer one more time. The San Diego Rep is still doing it -- after 27 years! Anyway, what would the holidays be without a couple of "Nutcrackers" and "A Christmas Carol?" Scrooge has had a wild ride at the Rep. For Read More →
Published in Gay and Lesbian Times February 28, 2003 Forget 'Where the Boys Are"…. "Beehive" is where the GIRLS are. With its focus on '60s girl groups, you could call this the female "Forever Plaid." But though those ultra-tight harmonies may have thrilled you, the songs didn't break off a piece of your heart (to quote a Pearl of wisdom). And that frankly geeky show, while perennial and amusing, Read More →
SAN DIEGO JEWISH JOURNAL JULY 2011 What do George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and Hershey Felder have in common? They’re all NJBs, of course (Nice Jewish Boys), the sons of Eastern European immigrants. All were piano prodigies who became prolific composers. And they’re all the same person. For a while, at least. Onstage at the Old Globe (July 1-Aug. 28). Read More →
FOR: SAN DIEGO JEWISH JOURNAL MAY 2013 The celebrated Green Day musical comes to town By PAT LAUNER http://sdjewishjournal.com/site/5058/jewish-whiz-meets-%e2%80%9camerican-idiot%e2%80%9d/ The knockout, hyperkinetic, multimedia rock musical “American Idiot” is about disaffected Millennials who can’t wait to break out of Suburbia and break away from their parental constraints. But that isn’t at all the story of Read More →
PAT LAUNER posted at TimesofSanDiego.com RUN DATES: 9/25/15 - 10/11/15 VENUE: San Diego Musical Theatre “We Are What We Are” is pretty much the theme song of “La Cage aux Folles,” the 1983 Tony Award-winning Jerry Herman/Harvey Fierstein musical (based on a French farce of the same name, and an inspiration for the Robin Williams/Nathan Lane movie, “The Birdcage”), all about acceptance of others, set in a St. Tropez drag cabaret club. The show is also a valentine to Read More →
Aired on KSDS-FM on 3/4/16 RUN DATES: 2/24/16 - 3/27/16 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre French farceur Georges Feydeau has been dead for nearly a century. But an English translation of one of his works is now making its American premiere, in a major coup for North Coast Repertory Theatre. This isn’t the first translation of the 1892 comedy, but British playwright Kenneth McLeish made some essential alterations to the original in the 1990s, conflating characters, shifting the focus 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