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“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 →

“Curtain Calls” Zorro in Hell

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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 10/06/06 Trashy White Guys and hip black chicks, Hemingway’s Rose and Trolley’s last kicks. And also, don’t say I didn’t warn ya’: Zorro’s back in California . CRAZY LIKE A FOX THE SHOW: Culture Clash’s Zorro in Hell, the Chicano crazies’ latest nutty/political creation (an actual play, with a plot!), part of a trilogy about The Golden State. This is a world premiere, co-produced and -commissioned by Berkeley Repertory Read More →

“THE WHO’S TOMMY” at the OB Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 4/19/17 RUN DATES: 3/31/17 - 5/7/17 VENUE: The OB Theatre The Pinball Wizard is a musical theater wiz as well. At the OB Playhouse, a musically outstanding rendition of “The Who’s Tommy” stars a wonderfully charismatic Jon White. But you’d better catch him fast; he’s off to Seattle come fall – to pursue a Master’s degree in Public Policy at U. Wash. Our loss. He’s outstanding in the role – a strong-voiced, natural rocker. All the Read More →

“the Matchmaker” At Cygnet Theatre / “the Uneasy Chair” At North Coast Repertory Theatre

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KPBS AIRDATE: March 09, 2007 Two comedies set in the 1880s; two writers, separated by a half-century, paying homage to the plays of the past. One is a bona fide chestnut; the other, a modern warhorse-wannabe. “The Matchmaker,” by Thornton Wilder, is an American classic, begun in 1938, revised in 1955, and ultimately the famous source for the megahit musical, “Hello, Dolly!” Read More →

“curtain Calls” Having A Fit

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By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 03/03/05 This week’s theater was deliciously rife With dark comedies of domestic strife. Devious dilemmas became acute In ‘Vigil’ and in ‘La Dispute’ But the farcical side of the faithless life Showed in ‘Private Fittings’ and ‘The Allergist’s Read More →

“HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH” at Diversionary Theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 4/12/19 RUN DATES: 3/21/19 - 5/5/19 VENUE: Diversionary Theatre Poor Hedwig. Born Hansel in East Berlin, a city, like himself, split in two, he was abandoned by his American G.I. father and neglected by his Hitler-loving Teutonic mother. An American soldier promised him a new life – if he’d put on a wig and become a wife. So, he left something of himself behind, and the botched surgery also left a little something -– the Read More →