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“SLEUTH” – Scripps Ranch Theatre

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PAT LAUNER posted at TimesofSanDiego.com RUN DATES: 9/11/15 - 10/11/15 VENUE: Scripps Ranch Theatre The great thing about Anthony Shaffer’s intellectual cat-and-mouse game, “Sleuth,” is that it’s so intricately and exquisitely plotted, even if you’ve seen it before (not too too recently), you can experience the shocks and surprises all over again. In the interest of not spoiling the fun for anyone, all that can be said is that the multi-layered puzzler is set in an English country house Read More →

“2.5 MINUTE RIDE” and “WELL” at Diversionary Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/21/17 RUN DATES: 2/9/17 - 3/19/17 VENUE: Diversionary Theatre Lisa Kron won two Tony Awards in her first foray on Broadway: Best Book of a Musical and (with composer Jeannine Tesori) Best Score. The show, “Fun Home,” was named Best Musical of 2015, and it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. . But long before that, Kron was known as a founding member of a satirical, feminist theater troupe, The Five Lesbian Brothers. And Read More →

“THE ELEPHANT MAN” at Backyard Renaissance and Oceanside Theatre Company

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 4/10/16 RUN DATES: 4/8/16 - 4/24/16 VENUE: Backyard Renaissance and Oceanside Theatre Company There are dramatic tragedies, and there are real-life tragic stories. Joseph “John” Merrick had one of the latter kind – a heartbreaking tale of neglect, abuse, pain and abandonment. His mother died when he was young and, rejected by his father, Merrick wound up in one of those notorious Victorian London workhouses. Possessed of some horrific deformity (still unidentified) that rendered him Read More →

“GYPSY” at Cygnet Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 8/26/16 RUN DATES: 7/14/16 - 9/4/16 VENUE: Cygnet Theatre There are stage mothers and Tiger Moms, helicopter mommies and non-maternalistic narcissists. And then there’s Mama Rose, who out-smothers ‘em all. “Gypsy” is a brilliant musical, with a legendary creative team: book by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. It nominally tells of the evolution and rise of world-renowned ecdysiast (that’s a highfalutin’ term for stripper, as she informs us) Gypsy Rose Read More →

“ALL THE WAY” at South Coast Repertory

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 9/21/16 RUN DATES: 9/2/16 - 10/2/16 VENUE: South Coast Repertory Politics is a matter of convincing and compromise. And no one was a better schmoozer, seducer, arm-twister and back-breaker than our 36th President (1963-68), Lyndon Baines Johnson. It can be fascinating to watch how the sausage of lawmaking gets made, as we saw in the 2012 Steven Spielberg film, “Lincoln,” with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery. In a similar vein of Read More →

“PERFECT ARRANGEMENT” at Intrepid Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 2/12/17 RUN DATES: 2/2/17 - 3/12/17 VENUE: Intrepid Theatre Some people hark back to the 1950s as a simpler time – of “golly-gee” and pearls, white gloves and Jello. Everything neat and tidy and well-defined. Except, a good deal was roiling beneath the ultra-polite, unruffled surface. The air was thick with paranoia. Racism was endemic, Red-baiting became a national pastime. And then there was the Lavender Scare. The State Department, charged with ferreting out Communists, Read More →