Reviews

“curtain Calls” #212 – September 28th

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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 09/28/07 Dear Miss Breed is anything but silly (Though that can’t be said of Modern Millie); Lou’s Camelot King may leave you cravin ’ But no musical gaffes in Ain’t Misbehavin ’. Read More →

“curtain Calls” #221

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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 12/07/07 It’s the wackiest week you’ve ever seen: From Scrooge in Harlem to a Math Team Queen, The Grinch and a family put to the test As ‘Cyrano’ hits the Asian Wild West. Read More →

“Side By Side By Sondheim” – North Coast Repertory Theatre

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Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 July 24, 2015 They say every picture tells a story. But not every song. Unless it’s written by Stephen Sondheim, musical theater’s most revered living composer/lyricist. With his dazzling wordplay, he conveys a character, an emotion, and a very particular moment in time. Sondheim has actually said that, without those pieces of information, he can’t even begin to write a song. Many evenings of theater have focused on his funniest Read More →

“The Quality Of Life”

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PAT LAUNER TIMES OF SAN DIEGO 7/7/15 What does “Quality of Life” mean to you?   This play considers the options Pain, loss and grief: How to live with them, how to move on from them. Those questions are at the heart of the gut-wrenching drama (with a welcome slice of comic relief), “The Quality of Life,” by Emmy Award-winning L.A. writer Jane Anderson (“Mad Men”), now getting its San Diego premiere in a knockout production at Intrepid Theatre Company. Director Read More →

“DISAPPEARING ACT” – InnerMission Productions

“DISAPPEARING ACT” – InnerMission Productions

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PAT LAUNER - posted on TimesofSanDiego.com   RUN DATES: 12/11/15-12/20/15 VENUE: InnerMission Productions The statistics are appalling – but then, so is sending young boys off to brutal wars in foreign lands and expecting them to come back unscathed, and re-integrate into society on their own. One in five of the 2.7 million American veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Most shocking: twenty-two veterans commit suicide every day. In the world premiere, “Disappearing Read More →

“MY MANANA COMES” – San Diego Repertory Theatre

“MY MANANA COMES” – San Diego Repertory Theatre

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PAT LAUNER, CENTER STAGE ON KSDS-FM RUN DATES: 10/1-15 - 10/25/15 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre Did you ever think about what happens after your busboy disappears behind that swinging door? “My Mañana Comes” by Elizabeth Irwin, shows you the ‘back of house’ of a posh New York restaurant, where there’s the usual conflict and somewhat controlled chaos, not to mention the hopes and aspirations of the minimum wage employees, several of them illegal immigrants. There’s Peter, the African Read More →