Email Author Bill Raden

2013 Stories by Bill Raden

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  Christopher Shinn's Acclaimed Pulitzer Finalist Dying City at Last Arrives in L.A.

  published May 16, 2013

  "When I grew up," recalls playwright Christopher Shinn, "I grew up with the image of the artist as somebody who could be central to the culture in a big way, and that was the kind of artist I wanted... More >>

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  For 66 Years, Verdugo Woodlands Elementary School Dads Have Put On L.A.'s Weirdest Annual Drag Show

  published May 14, 2013

  See also: *10 Best Drag Clubs in L.A. *Our Latest Theater Reviews The year was 1947. Headlines announced the establishment of the Cominform and the formation of the CIA that marked the non-declarati... More >>

• One Night With Janis Joplin

  published March 21, 2013

  The seductive appeal of this musical hagiography by writer-director Randy Johnson is no mystery. Nineteen-sixties rock acts have proved effective... More >>

• S.O.E.

  published March 28, 2013

  Build a better mousetrap, it is said, and the world will beat a path to your door. Or at least to Atwater Village, where playwright Jami Brandli's... More >>

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  Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally Celebrate 10 Years Together By Returning to Where They Met: the Stage

  published Apr 15, 2013

  See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews *12 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 Ask someone to define "Hollywood marriage" -- as in the working-actor-to-working-actor kind -- and chances are the answer you ge... More >>

• Tender Napalm

  published March 21, 2013

  Tender Napalm is hardly the first play to conceptualize the ebbs and flows of romantic love as a martial art. Unlike August Strindberg's... More >>

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  A New Play About...LAUSD School Lunchr

  published Mar 27, 2013

  Cornerstone Theatre Company does not believe in art for art's sake. Nor, for that matter, do they believe in merely putting on plays. At least not in the marbled-restroom, big-ticket-opulent sense of... More >>

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  L.A.'s Premiere LGBT Stage Celebrates 30th Anniversary, As Its New Artistic Directors Discuss the Future of Queer Theater

  published Mar 26, 2013

  Only in Los Angeles could you expect to find a star-studded gala in a shopping center parking structure. But that's because only Burbank would think of squeezing its premiere legitimate stage in ami... More >>

• Mike Tyson's One-Man Show at the Pantages Theater Is Surprisingly Good

  published Mar 09, 2013

  See also: *More theater reviews Former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world Mike Tyson scored one of the more impressive comebacks of his colorful career last night. That he did so in his one... More >>

• Dostoevsky's Notes From the Underground

  published January 17, 2013

  Even transposed from 19th-century St. Petersburg to the urban wilderness of modern-day Los Angeles, Dostoevsky's hilariously unforgiving novella... More >>

• Best L.A. Novel Ever: If He Hollers Let Him Go vs. The Revolt of the Cockroach People, Round 2

  published Mar 01, 2013

  L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading: *Best L.... More >>

• Jason Reitman Directed an All-Female Glengarry Glen Ross Reading at LACMA Last Night

  published Feb 22, 2013

  When former New York Times (and ex-LA Weekly) movie critic Elvis Mitchell took over LACMA's film curatorship two years ago -- with Film Independent, which runs the L.A. Film Festival and the Spirit ... More >>

• A Scandalous Solo Show About iPhones Comes to L.A., Performed by a New Actor

  published Feb 20, 2013

  See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews It did not take Alex Lyras long to realize that there was something uniquely different about performing Mike Daisey's solo play The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve J... More >>

• Director Richard Maxwell Has Amazed and Confused New York Theater Audiences for a Decade. Now He Makes His L.A. Debut

  published Feb 20, 2013

  em>See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews Richard Maxwell confesses that he had never even heard of Eugene O'Neill's S.S. Glencairn plays prior to getting a fateful call in 2011 -- "totally out of th... More >>

• The God Particle Complex

  published January 10, 2013

  For those who take their theoretical physics seriously, writers Chris Bell and Joshua Zeller's deliriously whacked-out, big-science apocalypse... More >>

• John Lithgow Discusses The Magistrate, His Hit British Play You Can Watch in an L.A. Movie Theater

  published Feb 05, 2013

  It has been said that actors are born, not made. And though it may be more accurate to say that they are born and then made, there are certain performers whose will to act seems to be singularly tou... More >>

• Children's Plays Are Naive and Sappy. 24th Street Theatre Is Bringing Them to the Dark Side

  published Jan 22, 2013

  See also: *Debbie Devine and Jay McAdams profiled in our People Issue Take a look at what passes for children's theater in this country and one might well conclude that childhood constitutes a warm ... More >>