Put a Little Drama in your Life
Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 December 27, 2013 Don’t you wish, sometimes, that you could just walk – or fly – away from the interminable obligations of adulthood? That’s part of our endless fascination with Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up. In its gazillion stage and screen adaptations, Read More →
Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 December 20, 2013 Holidays got you down? Already overstuffed on treacle and sentimentality? Theatrical help is on the way. Musical, satirical or silly, there’s a Christmas antidote with your name on it. If you think “The Christmas Carol” could use a little goosing, try “Scrooge in Rouge” Read More →
Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 December 13, 2013 Reasons to be pretty; reasons to be Santa. A Bad Boy playwright and a local theater do their thing. The world of Neil LaBute isn’t a very pretty place. His male characters are often Neanderthals who judge women Read More →
Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 December 6, 2013 The classic Christmas story, “The Gift of the Magi,” is all about sacrifice in the name of love. In O. Henry’s timeless tale, what each member of a cash-strapped couple gives up is an ironic match: he buys her combs; she’s sold her hair to buy him a Read More →
Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 November 29, 2013 The show urges you to “Come Look at the Freaks.” That’s the opening number of “Side Show,” which began life on Broadway in 1997 and has been “reimagined” for a La Jolla Playhouse ‘revisal,’ presented in association with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., where it Read More →
Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 November 22, 2013 You don’t expect to see pole-dancing at the theater. But that’s just one of many dramatic – and sensual – talents of Caroline Kinsolving , who gives a knockout career-defining performance in “Venus in Fur.” As the suggestive title might suggest, this is one sexy show. Read More →