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2013 Stories by Bill Raden

• 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 >>