Put a Little Drama in your Life
Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 December 26, 2014 Young Clara has a lot in common with Cindy-Lou Who. They both confront a Christmas-hating creature, and manage to save the day – and the holiday. Cindy-Lou sidles up to the Grinch; Clara outsmarts the Rats, in a “modern retelling” of “The Nutcracker.” Read More →
Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 December 19, 2014 True to its title, singing is the focus of Cygnet Theatre’s new adaptation of “A Christmas Carol.” At times, Sean Murray’s version is near-operatic in structure; he takes Dickens’ phrases, from the various incarnations of the 1843 classic, and with the aid of composer Billy Thompson, puts the Read More →
Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 December 12, 2014 He knew everyone and told everything. That was a source of pride for him – no one could name-drop like Truman Capote – but it could be a source of pain, too. When he was 8, living in Monroeville, Alabama, he published his Read More →
Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 December 5, 2014 The Old Globe is takin’ it to the streets. Well, maybe not the streets, but out of the theater box and into the community. Renowned producer Joseph Papp created the Mobile Shakespeare program in 1957, and decades later, Globe artistic director Barry Read More →
Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 November 28, 2014 If you want to see a show that makes your marriage, however imperfect, feel absolutely flawless, check out the three monstrously dysfunctional but hilariously funny couples in “Absurd Person Singular.” Sir Alan Ayckbourn, one of the world’s most prolific playwrights (70 plays and counting), has Read More →
Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 November 21, 2014 Know the difference between ‘naked’ and ‘nude’? ‘The Calendar Girls’ will tell you: Nude simply means more or less undressed. Naked means unprotected and vulnerable. So, it’s nude photos in Tim Firth’s poignant 2009 comedy, “Calendar Girls.” Based on a true story and made Read More →