Put a Little Drama in your Life
Pat Launer Posted 9/26/13 Family and friends. Hard to define. Impossible to predict and control. The culture, locale or situation may vary, but the ties are binding, if inevitably unstable. Everything is relative in “Boyle Heights,” a comic drama written by Josefina Lopez in 2009. Lopez was born in Mexico and moved to the titular Read More →
By Pat Launer Posted 2/9/13 Re-thinking Shakespeare. It’s been going on for hundreds of years. But if you’re going to re-set the Bard’s work in another timeframe, there had better be a reason. That reason is not exactly clear in Intrepid Theatre Company’s new production of “Hamlet.” The time between the World Wars affords some lovely Read More →
Pat Launer October 8, 2012 William Missouri Downs’ play, “The Exit Interview,” has everything in it including, I think, the kitchen sink. Cheerleaders? Check. Brechtian Alienation Effect? Check. A masked, armed terrorist? Check. About-to-be-unemployed college teacher? Check. Questions about the existence of God, the meaning of life, and the usefulness of product placement and Read More →