Put a Little Drama in your Life
PAT LAUNER TIMES OF SAN DIEGO 7/1/14 Who could possibly hate Hamlet? You might be annoyed with him for being such an indecisive wimp. But hate him? Only a TV star being pressured into the iconic role could have that kind of negative passion for the black-clad Dane. And so it is, in Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 05/25/07 Into London and Florence we’re heartily hurled In Bunbury and The School of the World. RETURN OF THE NON-EXISTENT THE SHOW: Read More →
By Pat Launer www.sdtheatrescene.com 06/09/06 Bright and funny, sweet and meek; This was Wendy Wasserstein week. Three nights of Wendy and her ‘sisters’ And all their (undesirable) Misters. And all Read More →
Aired on KSDS-FM on 11/25/16 RUN DATES: 11/13/16 - 12/11/16 VENUE: Moxie Theatre The decision about whether and when to become parents is private, personal, even political. For lesbian couples, there are no potential accidents or pregnancy surprises. Every step must be judiciously planned. So, when two best-bud duos get together, and one pair breaks out the pre-natal champagne, the four-way relationships become both charged and threatened. Sarah Gubbins, an L.A.-based playwright and screenwriter, sets her award-winning 2011 comic Read More →
Aired on KSDS-FM on 8/3/18 RUN DATES: 7/14/18 - 8/26/18 VENUE: Welk Resort Theatre Funny thing about plaid. Every time the cross-stripe fabric waltzes out of style for a while, it somehow sashays back in. Same goes for “Forever Plaid.” The 1989 musical revue keeps re-surfacing, with its wacky costumes, geeky quartet and goofy premise. Now the tale of four nerds is back, a nostalgic reminder of the close-harmony guy-groups of the 1950s. The Plaids were killed enroute to their first professional Read More →
Aired on KSDS-FM on 8/18/17 RUN DATES: 8/3/17 - 8/27/17 VENUE: San Diego Repertory Theatre She may not have been the manipulative opportunist who appears in the musical. But Eva Perón, was an Argentine icon, beloved by the people during her life, and long after her death in 1952 at age 33. It’s no wonder her rags-to-riches story inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to create “Evita,” first as a rock opera concept album, and in 1978, a fully 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