Put a Little Drama in your Life
PAT LAUNER TIMES OF SAN DIEGO 4/15/14 He’s a bona fide American hero: wise, compassionate father; upright, ethical attorney; staunch defender of the weak and oppressed. So what if he’s a fictional character? Atticus Finch is a paragon of parenthood and moral integrity. It’s hard not to love him as much as Scout does. Atticus Read More →
PAT LAUNER TIMES OF SAN DIEGO 2/23/15 The Sycamores really know how to live. “Life’s pretty simple if you just relax,” says Grandpa. “All we ask is to go along and be happy in our own sort of way.” Each member of the family blows with the wind (or, as the late mythologist Joseph Campbell Read More →
By Pat Launer 8/12/03 The best of times, the worst of times; A theater week measured in "Nickels and Dimes," With a "Sight Unseen," an "Angry Inch." And a "Country" visit that makes you flinch. Add to that an exit from SDSU, To begin the next stage, my own Act 2. Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 04/07/04 Motion or stasis; You specify: Be moved by 'Still Life' Or take wing with 'Varekai.' Just the other day on NPR, I heard two war vets being interviewed. The one from Vietnam just couldn't get past what he'd done, how he'd Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 12/01/04 History and comedy and drama, oh my! The holiday weekend fairly flew by: A Lion roared, an elf felt disdain, And whaddaya know ?… Jesus hopped the A train. As prison dramas go, this one’s a killer. Angel Cruz, a poor Puerto Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 07/29/05 ‘So Here’s the Thing’: It’s ‘Confession’ time: Gay and straight, absurd and sublime. Musical, ecstatic, dramatic, chagrined: Like ‘Moonlight and Magnolias,’ it’s soon Gone With the Wind. 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