Put a Little Drama in your Life
Center Stage with Pat Launer on KSDS JAZZ88 December 28, 2012 2012 is waning, but you’ve got one more shot at holiday fever onstage: “Christmas on My Mind,” one of the latest and most popular of Lamb’s Players Theatre’s three decades of Festival of Christmas scripts, more than a dozen shows created by resident playwright Kerry Meads. Read More →
Center Stage with Pat Launer on KSDS JAZZ88 December 21, 2012 You might not have thought it possible, but there is a way to have a snowy holiday season in San Diego. You can see a live production of “White Christmas.” It’s all there – the romance, the great songs, the fabulous Read More →
Center Stage with Pat Launer on KSDS JAZZ88 December 14, 2012 Here’s an interesting juxtaposition: a nationally-known professional theater troupe touring a sophomoric, amateurish holiday trifle; and a youth theater company presenting an earnest, thought-provoking drama with music. Like the title character in “ Yentl ,” I’ll opt for an educational experience every time. Read More →
Center Stage with Pat Launer on KSDS JAZZ88 December 7, 2012 Here’s a theater truism: New work doesn’t always work. Three new plays opened this week, and while all reflected serious commitment, none was seriously successful. And each production defied another dramatic adage: Less is more. All seemed overdone, and trying too hard. Read More →
Center Stage with Pat Launer on KSDS JAZZ88 November 30, 2012 It can be your mortal clock – or your mortal enemy. Time is of the essence in three diverse theater offerings. The stage is cluttered with clocks in “Hickory Dickory ,” the third work by Chicago playwright Marisa Wegrzyn Read More →
Center Stage with Pat Launer on KSDS JAZZ88 November 23, 2012 Ghosts, robots and feathered angels. Fantasy meets a fraught reality in three provocative productions. The biggest and splashiest is the world premiere of “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,” inspired by the album of the same name by Read More →