Put a Little Drama in your Life
Aired on KSDS-FM on 2/1/19 RUN DATES: 1/10/19 - 2/1/19 VENUE: Centro de Bellas Artes, San Juan, Puerto Rico When an unexpected opportunity presents itself, you just have to grab it. So, when a friend called and said she had an extra ticket to “Hamilton” – in Puerto Rico, starring Lin Manuel Miranda, I leapt at the chance. Two days later, we were in the air and on our way. Miranda, the Pulitzer Prize-winning MacArthur ‘genius’ who created the Read More →
Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 1/21/19 RUN DATES: 1/11/19 - 2/24/19 VENUE: Lamb's Players Theatre Anniversaries and milestones should be celebrated. So, it makes perfect sense that Lamb’s Players Theatre would want to crow about its 25 years in Coronado. Producing artistic director Robert Smyth began the narrative section of the evening by recounting how the move from the small arena stage in National City came about – including crawling into a small, dark opening, using flashlights for the first viewing Read More →
Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 3/5/20 RUN DATES: 2/26/20 - 3/7/20 VENUE: UCSD at the Potiker Theatre There isn’t a problem, concern or crisis in our divisive current culture that doesn’t make its way into “Orestes 2.0.” Playwright Charles Mee wrote his adaptation of Euripides 408 B.C.E tragedy in 1991, during the first Gulf War, and it’s now being presented, in all its gory glory, at UC San Diego. This is the third part of Mee’s ‘Imperial Dreams’ trilogy. He considers Read More →
Aired on KSDS-FM on 4/26/19 RUN DATES: 4/10/19 - 5/5/19 VENUE: New Village Arts The premise demands a bit of the frenetic. “The Servant of Two Masters” says it all. One man, trying to minister to the needs of two patrons, both staying in the same inn, traveling with identical suitcases, awaiting an important letter that will seal their nuptial machinations. And you can imagine the rest: a bucketload of puns, pratfalls, slapstick, audience interaction, women playing men, men Read More →
Aired on KSDS-FM on 7/12/19 RUN DATES: 6/14/19 - 7/21/19 VENUE: The Eastern at PowPAC You’d have to be living under a very large rock, or in a very dark cave, not to know anything about the Boy Wizard who was The Chosen One at a certain school of witchcraft and wizardry. Now, along comes “Puffs: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic,” that is to say, Male Magic and Female Magic, which is Read More →
Aired on KSDS-FM on 9/13/19 RUN DATES: 9/4/19 - 10/13/19 VENUE: North Coast Repertory Theatre Big play. Big ideas. Big cast and costuming demands. Sir Peter Shaffer’s “Amadeus,” chock full of glorious music and colorful characters, is an often-funny tragedy about mediocrity, zealotry, gluttony, hypocrisy, blind ambition and sheer, unvarnished genius. It’s the story of the buffoonish man-child Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as seen through the eyes of Antonio Salieri, composer and arch-rival in late 18th century Vienna – though the Read More →
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-Pat Launer