Put a Little Drama in your Life
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 06/23/06 Hard to believe, but isn’t it nifty That this column is my number 150? Comedies, tragedies, deaths and scares, It’s all piled up (just like The Chairs). We’ve been through it together, by Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 07/08/05 We just got back from Ireland Begorrah and Erin-go- bragh ! With its hills, vales, glens and greenness It’s truly a Shangri-La. We drove about 1500 miles Greeted with Guinness and Jameson’s Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: December 1, 1993 "Friday Night Refugees" introduces us to a culture within a culture within a culture. "Hi, I'm Billy, and I'm an alcoholic," it begins. Billy is addicted, recovering and gay. His weekly twelve-step group calls itself the Friday Night Refugees. And the homegrown play he appears in, is presented Read More →
PAT LAUNER TIMES OF SAN DIEGO 2/18/15 There was a time when Broadway musicals provided the pop hits of the day. “West Side Story” was certainly one of those shows. It was a groundbreaker, with its brilliant score by Leonard Bernstein, book by Arthur Laurents and lyrics by a twentysomething Stephen Sondheim, spawning songs like “Tonight,” Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: JULY 27, 1994 They were separated by style, substance and a century, but now they're as close as cousins. The seventeenth century comic playwright Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux snuggles up to nineteenth century Naturalistic novelist Emile Zola, compliments of the La Jolla Playhouse. The Playhouse has done it again: pairing two disparate but Read More →
Aired on KSDS-FM on 4/29/16 RUN DATES: 4/10/16 - 5/1/16 VENUE: South Coast Repertory Things are pretty hairy on college campuses these days – what with racist pranks, date-rape, even open-carry gun laws at some schools. In the world premiere, “Office Hour,” at South Coast Rep, playwright Julia Cho is wading into the deep, dark waters of campus terrorism English major Dennis is scaring his creative writing teachers and fellow students. He sits at the back of the room, hunkered 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