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“CHAPATTI” – North Coast Repertory Theatre

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PAT LAUNER, CENTER STAGE ON KSDS-FM RUN DATES: 10/21/15 - 11/15/15 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre “Chapatti” is an Irish play with an Indian name – and that’s not the only unusual part of it. Galway-based writer Christian O’Reilly presents two senior citizens – both lonely, unhappy and utterly devoted to their pets. He’s got a dog; she has 19 cats. They meet-cute at the veterinarian’s. From the get-go, you know how it will end. Yet O’Reilly inserts several unpredicted Read More →

“le Petomane” At The La Jolla Playhouse

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KPBS AIRDATE: June 25, 1992 The puns, like the bowling pins being juggled, fly fast and furious. "Le Petomane" is billed as "a comedy of airs," and it has to do with Joseph Pujol, a baker cum cabaret performer in turn-of-the-century Paris , who earned fame, fortune and, now, a measure of immortality, by creative wind-passing. Read More →

“festival Of Christmas: Angel’s Arms” At The Lamb’s Players Theatre & “la Pastorela San Diego” By Teatro Mascara Magica At The Old Globe Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: December 21, 1994 The strains of holiday music are in the air -- and in the elevator, at the mall, on the phone line. But one place they blessedly belong at this time of year is on theater stages. Some delectable old-time carols pop up regularly in the Lamb's Players "Festival of Christmas." And bilingual lyrics are Read More →

HUANG YI AND KUKA

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RUN DATES: 10/15/15 VENUE: UC SAN DIEGO, ARTPOWER If your taste runs to performance that’s outside the box, this has been a bountiful week in San Diego – particularly on the UCSD campus. Last weekend was the 2nd La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls (WoW) Festival, a 3-day cornucopia of 22 intriguing, often exciting, site-specific events. Many pieces were outdoors and immersive, engaging or interacting with the audience. And then, on September 14, along came “Huang Yi & Kuka,” courtesy Read More →

“AT THIS EVENING’S PERFORMANCE” at North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 7/17/17 RUN DATES: 7/12/17 - 8/6/17 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre “Comparisons are odorous,” Shakespeare’s malaprop-spewing Dogberry famously declaimed. Comparing Nagle Jackson’s 1978 trifle, “At This Evening’s Performance,” to Michael Frayn’s hilarious and brilliant “Noises Off” (as occurred in some promotional material) is both odorous and odious. (For the record, Frayn’s farce premiered after Jackson’s, in 1982, but he wrote an earlier, one-act version in 1977). The only thing these two theater works have in Read More →

“VOYEURS DE VENUS” at Moxie Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 8/24/18 RUN DATES: 8/12/18 - 9/2/18 VENUE: Moxie Theatre “Race is what I do,” African American playwright Lydia Diamond has said. “Race and gender, sexuality and class.” Check, check and check. These issues reverberate throughout her 2002 play, “Voyeurs de Venus,” in addition to a heap of other subjects, including colonialism, victimization, objectification, exploitation and conciliation, punctuated by sex, gore, dance, nudity and a minstrel show. The play, getting an excellent production at Moxie Theatre, under the Read More →