Put a Little Drama in your Life
Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 January 30, 2015 Remember that old t-shirt expression? ‘Life is hard, and then you die.’ Well, suffering is what Stephen Karam’s “Sons of the Prophet” is all about. He’s created a gaggle of characters subjected to the indiscriminate and destructive whims of destiny: over two hours, calamity piles onto catastrophe. Read More →
Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 January 23, 2015 The blonde at the next table has “a mouth that would’ve sent Shakespeare thumbing through a thesaurus.” So says poker-faced Sam Galahad, a hard-boiled, hard-drinking private eye who’s on the case of a murdered millionaire and his missing daughter. That MIA bombshell was the love of Read More →
PAT LAUNER TIMES OF SAN DIEGO 1/19/15 A Jew and an Arab walk into a theater. Nope, it’s not a joke – though it’s teeming with them. “One Arab. One Jew. One Stage: Laugh in Peace” features two standup comedians who’ve appeared together around the world, hosted by Jews, Muslims and interested, open-minded others. Now, they’re coming to San Diego for one night only (two shows), Tuesday, January 27, courtesy of the San Diego Center for Jewish Read More →
PAT LAUNER TIMES OF SAN DIEGO 1/19/15 “We’re jungle creatures,” the Queen says to the King. But, as portrayed in William Goldman’s magnificent 1966 comic drama, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II are far worse than that. The 12th century English monarchs are carnivorous beasts, who eat their young. Those offspring, one might say, deserve being eaten – and worse. They’d as soon see Read More →
Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 January 16, 2015 It’s 2017, and a relentless young militant, an Iraq War vet named Trish, is shot in front of the White House by a cop who accidentally used a bullet instead of a stun-gun. She immediately embarks on a stunning, mind-bending flashback, reliving her life and the history of American Read More →
PAT LAUNER TIMES OF SAN DIEGO 1/12/15 He was a brilliant British hyphenate: novelist, poet, academic, medievalist , literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist . Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was famously known as C.S. Lewis, though his friends called him Read More →