Put a Little Drama in your Life
Encinitas 10/8/10 Patch.com Dek: Encinitas’ first resident professional theater company has a winning gameplan When you call yourself Intrepid, you have to be willing to go out on a limb. But finding a home for the professional theater company – Encinitas’ first – was less a risk than a matter of kismet. Christy Yael and Sean Read More →
3/24/11 PAT LAUNER A creative thinker creates a creative thinker Patch.com Carlsbad The voices of young people aren’t always heard. But the Playwrights Project, which was founded in San Diego, has always been dedicated to giving a platform to youthful, creative thinkers. This is the 26th year of their annual statewide California Young Playwrights Contest that culminates Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: MARCH 3, 2000 Feminism strikes back… in two plays that will make you squirm…one with discomfort, one with an uncontrollable desire to bolt from the theater. Kelly Stuart's "Furious Blood" may make you angry at the patronizing, paternalistic ways of the world that haven't changed since the time of the ancient Greeks. But Wendy Wasserstein's "An American Daughter" will make you angry you Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: SEPTEMBER 16, 2000 Trying to analyze, interpret, dissect or explain the work of Samuel Beckett is often, like his plays, an exercise in futility. So instead of trying, in the face of a veritable Becketteria these last few months…. "Waiting For Godot" last spring, and two quickies -- "Krapp's Last Tape" and "Play" now at Sledgehammer Theatre, I thought you might get a better Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: APRIL 27, 2001 A new play festival is always something to crow about. Okay, some fledgling works don't fly. But you might just witness the shell-breaking birth of something wonderful. So, take a chance; the theater of tomorrow is in the youth of today. This year, there are two exciting theatrical spawning grounds: right now, you can catch the UCSD New Play Festival 2001… and in Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: January 25, 2002 It's a great time for single women…that's dramatically, not socially speaking. This month, there are four solo female shows in town-- two at San Diego Rep, one at the Fritz and one at North Coast Repertory Theatre. Sisters are doin' it for themselves… "Angel in Between" and "An Evening with Eleanor" may be widely disparate thematically, focusing 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