Put a Little Drama in your Life
Published in In Theater March 1999 "The Ballad of Floyd Collins" is more than just the plaintive opening number. It could be the tale of the show's evolution. Commissioned in 1994 by the American Music Theatre Festival of Philadelphia, "Floyd Collins" opened at Playwrights Horizons in the busy 1996 season, up against "Rent" and "Noise/Funk." It got lost in the shuffle; Read More →
PAT LAUNER, CENTER STAGE ON KSDS-FM RUN DATES: 11/13/15 - 12/10/15 VENUE: La Jolla Playhouse Two beautiful young women kiss in a spring rainfall. It’s a stunning scene in the world premiere, “Indecent,” at the La Jolla Playhouse. It was also a provocative moment in a much earlier play, “The God of Vengeance,” that caused such a furor when it opened on Broadway in 1936 that the cast and producer were arrested on obscenity charges. The history of that 1907 Read More →
Pat Launer on San Diego Theater By Pat Launer , SDNN Thursday, August 27, 2009 READ MINI-REVIEW of “Julius Caesar” Road Show THE SHOW: “Leaving Iowa ,” a 2004 nostalgic comedy, at Lamb’s Players Theatre Raise hands if you’ve never sat in Read More →
SDNN: Feature “A Weekend with Pablo Picasso” Pat Launer SDNN.com 3/16/10 http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2010-03-16/things-to-do/weekend-with-pablo-picasso-premieres-at-san-diego-rep “Weekend with Pablo Picasso” premieres at San Diego Rep: One-man show stars Culture Clash’s Herbert Siguenza He was 7 years old when he was given a life-changing book, an intimate photographic essay entitled Read More →
December 2010 Dear, Dear Sandy , I want you to know that I’m not wearing black –I think you’d like that. But I AM wearing black lace underwear; I think you’d REALLY like that. I need to grab whatever amusement I can get right now… It’s been such a hard week for all of us. And like everyone else, I’ve been flooded Read More →
Patch.com Coronado 8/8/11 By Pat Launer Review: ACT San Diego youth theater brings local prem iere of the Tony Award-winning musical to the Coronado School of the Arts. http://coronado.patch.com/articles/spring-awakening-puts-teen-angst-center-stage Who can ever get inside the head of an anguished teenager? “Spring 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