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2010 Stories by Amy Nicholson

• Lemon Durang Pie

  published November 11, 2010

  The poison pen is pretty damned funny in Christopher Durang's pair of one-acts that poke fun at playwrights Tennessee Williams, Sam Shepard, David... More >>

• Hamlet, Prince of Puddles

  published October 14, 2010

  Scholars have teased out new layers in Shakespeare's tragedy for 400 years. A new company, L'Enfant Terrible, compresses it into a 45-minute... More >>

• Witch Ball

  published August 12, 2010

  Centuries ago, a Romanian craftsman blew a glass ball for a widow pestered by a horny, tickling ghost. The blue orb was the size of a large onion... More >>

• Phil the Void: The Great Brain Robbery

  published July 22, 2010

  With his full, finely trimmed beard and unknotted bow tie, Phil van Hest looks like the best man at a wedding of ichthyologists. He knows he looks... More >>

• The Girl Who Would Be King

  published July 8, 2010

  Better to die a man than be born a woman — even a princess. Inspired by Mark Twain's short story about a girl raised as a boy in order to... More >>

• Magnum Opus: Surf Dogs Unite!

  published June 17, 2010

  No writer is credited for Magnum Opus Theatre, and it’s for his or her own protection. Every week, the ensemble mines one of L.A’.s... More >>

• Supernova

  published May 27, 2010

  Mabel (Bonnie Hunt), a naive Des Moines housewife, calls a graveyard-shift salesman named Joe in Los Angeles (Timothy McNeil), to order an... More >>

• Tooth and Nail

  published May 13, 2010

  The New Jersey hamlet of Weehawken is the site of the Hamilton-Burr duel, a fitting locale for a comedy where the characters are goaded to the the... More >>

• Langston & Nicolas

  published April 29, 2010

  It was 1930 When Langston Hughes met Cuba's Poet Laureate–to–be Nicolas Guillen, and the two young writers — both born with the... More >>

• Dirty Pooh

  published April 22, 2010

  How does Zombie Joe's Underground make A.A. Milne's short story "In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight Place" NSFW? When Winnie the... More >>

• In a Garden

  published March 25, 2010

  In 1989, a foreign bureaucrat (Mark Harelik), representing the Ministry of Culture in some (fictitious) Middle Eastern nation named Aqaat,... More >>

• Project: Wonderland

  published January 21, 2010

  The Rev. Charles Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll, opens Robert A. Prior’s play by defending his friendship with 11-year-old Alice Liddell... More >>

• Blood and Thunder

  published January 14, 2010

  In the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Marcus (Keith Arthur Bolden) isn’t scared of the newly arrived hurricane, Katrina. Marcus is an expert on... More >>