Put a Little Drama in your Life
KPBS AIRDATE: January 09, 2004 Eighteen months ago, Gina Angelique had a baby. The wildly imaginative choreographer and founder of Eveoke Dance Theatre thought a lot about motherhood and its particular joys and obligations.. So last year, when 65% of the population said they were in favor of sending their daughters and sons off to war, she just couldn't understand it. And that got her Read More →
PAT LAUNER - posted at TimesofSanDiego.com RUN DATES: 11/13/15-12/13/15 VENUE: Scripps Ranch Theatre David Ives, a Lit. sensation Creates a thing called ‘translaptation.’ He translates, adapts and has his way With farces that are très français. It’s maybe a blessing, maybe a curse: His translaptations appear in verse. Scripps Ranch already sparked a fire With a knockout production of “The Liar.” Yet this later work, “The Heir Apparent,” Seems a bit more socially aberrant. For all its clever word accretions It dwells too long on body secretions. And since its Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: AUGUST 19,1991 It's almost as if we're watching "The Heliotrope Bouquet by Scott Joplin and Louis Chauvin" through an opium haze. But ragtime wizard Joplin wasn't as much into mind-bending drugs as his contemporary Chauvin. At the time we meet him, however, in 1917, Joplin is sliding downward from syphilis, and his mind is fuzzy with fever, as he flashes Read More →
PAT LAUNER posted on TimesofSanDiego.com RUN DATES: 11/6/15-11/21/15 VENUE: InnerMission Productions Brodie is a lover of language – but she’s not such a great communicator. She’s a professional, professorial linguist, who’s having a clandestine affair with one of her (much younger) female grad students. Now, at age 42, with the help of an anonymous donor, she’s 12 weeks pregnant and about to undergo amniocentesis. For a self-professed straight-talking scientist, she has trouble interacting with almost everyone: her genetic counselors, her Read More →
Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 1/5/16 RUN DATES: 12/8/15 - 1/17/16 VENUE: The Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles It may have sold 50 million copies worldwide, but Robert James Waller’s “The Bridges of Madison County” was a featherweight novel of, as one critic put it, “sentimental slush.” It’s the sappy story of an Italian war bride, stuck in the vast cornfields of 1960s Iowa. One day, a photographer from National Geographic stops by to ask directions to one of the local Read More →
KPBS AIRDATE: March 15, 1991 We're in a small resort town on the South Carolina coast. We hear the waves lap against the sand, and the clang of a distant lighthouse bell. But soon the seaside silence is shattered. We learn that chemicals and garbage have been dumped in the ocean. And a truckload of metaphorical garbage has been dumped on the lives of Lamar and Price, two troubled semi-siblings. In fact, "Sun Bearing Down" 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