Put a Little Drama in your Life
PAT LAUNER - THE SAN DIEGO JEWISH JOURNAL Feature: “Golda’s Balcony” OCTOBER 2015 She may have looked like a Yiddishe Mama, but she was a tough-as-nails leader and the indomitable Mother of a nation. That would be Golda Meir and the State of Israel. Golda’s story is expansive and impressive, and a small part of it is depicted in the 2003 stage-play, “Golda’s Balcony,” by William Gibson. Golda was born in 1898 in Kiev, Ukraine, the daughter of a poor Read More →
Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 October 31, 2014 He had a wild and misspent youth. But when he cast off his dissolute companions, he grew up. We watched him become king in “Henry IV.” And in “Henry V,” Shakespeare shows how Harry became a leader – compassionate in his rule, but ferocious when necessary. Read More →
Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 October 24, 2014 A discourse on the existence of God. You wouldn’t think it would be the stuff of drama. But when the debaters are Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, and Oxford professor C.S. Lewis, lay theologian and creator of Narnia, you’d be surprised how lively the Read More →
PAT LAUNER TIMES OF SAN DIEGO 10/21/14 October is prime time for a wacky homegrown scare-fest, where “The Bad Seed” meets cheesy ‘50s B-horror flicks. Oh, and don’t forget the drag. If this sounds like your cup of theatrical insanity, head over to Diversionary Theatre for its leaner, meaner reprise of “She- Rantulas from Outer Space – in Read More →
Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 October 17, 2014 They had me at Round One. “The Royale,” by Marco Ramirez, is about one of the most dangerous and deadly sports – boxing, which is to say, bashing someone’s brains in – but there’s something irresistibly primal and visceral, rhythmic and ritualistic about the play. Read More →
Pat Launer, Center Stage on KSDS JAZZ88 October 10, 2014 The plays of Sam Shepard create a bleak portrait: a desolate Southwest landscape of raw emotion, family dissolution and mutual destruction. Cygnet Theatre has impeccably paired two of Shepard’s darkly comic dramas, performed in repertory, ingeniously called Shep Rep. Read More →