“curtain Calls” Holding Out For A Hero
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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 08/25/06 No one can be hyper-critical When good plays become political Lincolnesque is in D.C. And Eyolf’s by a Norway sea. While Five Cups is Read More →
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“curtain Calls” #190
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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 04/27/07 Learn to Drive with Li’l Bit Get your poetry from Wit And be provoked, in many ways, By the UCSD Fest of New Plays Read More →
“curtain Calls” #223
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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 12/21/07 At holiday time, it’s a Jungle out there As Christmas Carols waft through the air. Givin’ ‘em The Dickens THE SHOW: A Christmas Carol , a traditional Victorian version, adapted by Jacqueline Goldfinger as a 90-minute, musically infused ensemble piece, directed Read More →
“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 →
“WOODY GUTHRIE’S AMERICAN SONG” from Intrepid Theatre
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Posted at Timesofsandiego.com on 6/5/16 RUN DATES: 5/12/16 - 7/17/16 VENUE: Intrepid Theatre at the Horton Grand Theatre His most famous song is “This Land is Your Land.” But while everyone knows the upbeat, patriotic verses of the Woody Guthrie classic, few are familiar with the more chilling verse – the one about hunger and poverty and welfare lines that ends, “Is this land made for you and me?” In “Woody Guthrie’s American Song,” a story-song narrative conceived in Read More →
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-Pat Launer