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2008 Stories by Amy Nicholson

• Macbeth

  published June 19, 2008

  With coyotes harmonizing alongside the Weird Sisters and Birnam (okay, Topanga) Wood choking the stage, Theatricum Botanicum’s outdoor... More >>

• Money & Run

  published June 5, 2008

  If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. To lure audiences away from movies and TV, some theaters... More >>

• Dream Man

  published May 29, 2008

  We’re several decades past the era when a queer-themed play could earn accolades just by daring to exist. James Carroll Pickett’s... More >>

• Tooth & Nail

  published May 22, 2008

  Gerald (Gregory Mortensen) wants his wife, Ellie (Lynn Odell), dead, only he’s the one with the inoperable brain tumor. In the... More >>

• The Importance of Being Earnest

  published May 1, 2008

  Oscar Wilde’s frivolous comedy gets a thoroughly inessential staging. Two sets of anthroponymically crossed lovers — Algernon and Cecily... More >>

• Personality Crisis

  published April 24, 2008

  Thirty-year-old writer and musician Trixie (Megan Lee Ethridge) knows herself: She’s boring. Her boyfriend, Gary (Michael Hampton), persuades... More >>

• Chico's Angels: Chicas Are Forever

  published April 17, 2008

  “Dis is like one of those Agatha Crispy movies,” gushes bubblehead detective Frieda Laye (Danny Casillas), referring to her fourth... More >>

• A Beautiful View

  published April 10, 2008

  Liz (Sarah Boughton) and Mitch (CeCe Pleasants) are two new best girlfriends drawn together by their shared love of camping, fear of bears and... More >>

• The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940

  published April 3, 2008

  On the eve of WWII, a blizzard traps 10 people (and at least one murderer) in the labyrinthine countryside mansion of German Baroness Elsa von... More >>

• The All-Female 1929 Skidoo Review

  published March 27, 2008

  In writer-director Eugene H. Butler's sentimental variety show, Meme (Audrey Marlyn), a former vaudeville star and her great granddaughter... More >>

• Concrete Folk Variations, Chapter One: Death of a Sugar Daddy

  published March 13, 2008

  Concrete Folk Variations, Chapter One: Death of a Sugar DaddyLos Angeles, 1947, and the last thing you want to be is communist or... More >>

• The Eulogy

  published March 6, 2008

  Brynn Thayer stands before her father's flag-draped coffin. Skilled at sports, seduction, and securities fraud, he had a big personality that... More >>

• Concrete Folk Variations, Chapter One: Death of a Sugar Daddy

  published March 6, 2008

  Los Angeles, 1947, and the last thing you want to be is communist or homosexual. And for the city’s lesbian community, persecution looms with... More >>

• Mr. Marmalade

  published March 6, 2008

  Four-year-old Lucy (Heather Ann Smith) is learning that boys are impossible. She wants to play house; they’re content with doctor. Her pal,... More >>

• Shut Up and Eat Your Groundlings

  published January 10, 2008

  The Groundlings' pipeline to SNL has much to do with their predilection for supersized characters butting heads with the normals in skits with... More >>

• Sex, Drugs and Minivans

  published January 10, 2008

  SEX, DRUGS AND MINIVANS The typical Lisa Ann Orkin tale is a monologue you’d overhear at brunch — a stream of consciousness gush that... More >>

• Splatter Pattern

  published January 10, 2008

  Neal Bell's dirge slowly enthralls. It features a time-bending gimmick: A grieving writer named Dunn (Jim Hanna) rewinds his conversations with... More >>

• Bust

  published January 10, 2008

  "Reveal no personal information," orders an organizer to prison volunteer Lauren Weedman in the return of her hilarious and brutally frank... More >>

• PROVE IT ON ME

  published January 10, 2008

  "I don't like crackers with my soup... that kind of appetite will get me killed," insists lesbian blues singer Georgia Brooks (Sweet Baby J'ai) to... More >>

• The Marvelous Wonderettes

  published January 10, 2008

  In their cotton-candy chiffon dresses, songbirds Missy, Suzy, Betty Jean and Cindy Lou (Kim Huber, Bets Malone, Julie Dixon Jackson and Kirsten... More >>

• A Brief History of Penguins and Promiscuity

  published January 10, 2008

  Seven years ago in a Parisian hotel, linguist Julia (Sondi Kroeger Foley) conceived a son. On the anniversary of the blessed impregnation, the... More >>

• ALL ABOUT WALKEN: The Impersonators of Christopher Walken

  published January 10, 2008

  So these eight Christopher Walken impersonators glide onstage, strutting and yowling and wearing bad wigs. Most are decent Walkens, and the best... More >>

• PUTTING ON THE FRITZ

  published January 10, 2008

  Fourth wall? These two one-acts smash right through it by introducing their characters with a series of smart monologues. When the playwrights... More >>

• The Monkey Jar

  published January 10, 2008

  At a close-knit charter elementary school, a struggling fourth-grader (Josh Ogner) brandishes a gun at his teacher, Mr. Dori (Henry Hayashi). The... More >>

• I'm Your Girl

  published January 10, 2008

  Depressive Catherine (Lori Allen Thomas) drives off a bridge. Her boyfriend, Mantello (Jeffrey Wylie, with a scuzzy mustache), knew Catherine was... More >>