Email Author Bill Raden

2010 Stories by Bill Raden

• Traveling Carnival Freakshow

  published December 9, 2010

  If Tod Browning and the Brothers Quay had collaborated on a stage version of The Island of Dr. Moreau, the results might have resembled... More >>

• Schmutzigen Deutsche Kabarett

  published December 2, 2010

  This latest, late-night creation from sardonic, surrealist director-choreographer Amanda Marquardt is so straightforward and simple in its concept... More >>

• The Night of the Tribades

  published November 25, 2010

  Generally speaking, biographies of even immortal artists rarely produce compelling dramas. Whatever mysterious alchemy transmutes raw experience... More >>

• Diving Normal

  published November 4, 2010

  A 2006 New York Fringe Festival favorite, playwright Ashlin Halfnight's tale of an unlikely romantic triangle between a trio of Manhattan misfits... More >>

• Chico's Angels: Chicas in Chains

  published October 7, 2010

  Somewhere in an alternate TV universe, where it is always the 1970s and the posh Charles Townsend Agency still services L.A.'s moneyed class with... More >>

• The Glass Menagerie

  published September 16, 2010

  Director Gordon Edelstein's dynamic, iconoclastic revival of Tennessee Williams' revered, 1944 memory play arrives at the Mark Taper Forum... More >>

• Brewsie and Willie

  published July 29, 2010

  If the name Gertrude Stein isn't enough of a clue to not expect your average, well-made play, just walk into the seventh floor, downtown-penthouse... More >>

• Two Plays by Yukio Mishima

  published July 15, 2010

  Perhaps most notorious in the West for his sensational, 1970 suicide by seppuku, controversial poet-novelist Yukio Mishima was also a playwright... More >>

• A Memory of What Might Have Been

  published June 17, 2010

  George Bernard Shaw wrote that “men and women are made by their own fancies in the image of the imaginary creatures in [their] youthful... More >>

• Drunk Talk

  published June 17, 2010

  Welcome to McSwiggins. For the motley assortment of career barflies, neighborhood hotheads, Walmart Casanovas and lovelorn alcoholics who make it... More >>

• Dementia

  published May 6, 2010

  Anyone who survived the deadly HIV plague years of the ’80s, when the best and brightest of the arts community were wiped out by the disease,... More >>

• Copenhagen

  published April 29, 2010

  Though playwright Michael Frayn's virtues as a historian have been hotly debated in the decade since his speculative historical whodunit played on... More >>

• The Mystery Plays

  published April 8, 2010

  Though its title alludes to the biblical pageants of medieval Europe, playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s 2002 pair of supernatural-themed... More >>

• Lascivious Something

  published April 1, 2010

  "Things often burst," intones a radio newscaster in the premiere of playwright Sheila Callaghan's simmering symbolist melodrama. That line could... More >>