Email Author Deborah Klugman

2008 Stories by Deborah Klugman

• Inspecting Carol

  published December 25, 2008

  Written by Daniel Sullivan and the Seattle Repertory Company, this 1992 farce pokes fun at Dickens’ Christmas classic while lampooning a... More >>

• Shanghai Moon

  published December 18, 2008

  Set in 1931, satirist Charles Busch’s politically incorrect farce pokes fun at pre–Hays (censorship) Code movie melodramas from the... More >>

• My Trip Down the Pink Carpet

  published December 11, 2008

  If a zest for life is infectious, there’s probably no more delightful a carrier than Leslie Jordan. A diminutive stage, film, Emmy... More >>

• The Busy World Is Hushed

  published December 4, 2008

  Why do bad things happen to good people? How is it that God not only allows suffering but often appears to engineer it? These existential... More >>

• The Holy Mother of Hadley, New York

  published November 27, 2008

  What demons lurk among the populace of small-town America? In Barbara Wiechmann’s pretentious drama, it isn’t evil spirits but the... More >>

• Melodrama Play

  published November 20, 2008

  First produced by La Mama in 1967, Sam Shepard's rock & roll–studded one act takes an acerbic look at the music business and the wannabes who... More >>

• For All Time

  published November 13, 2008

  This third offering in Cornerstone Theater Company’s justice cycle is a disturbing docudrama by KJ Sanchez, which deals with the legal... More >>

• Leading Ladies

  published October 30, 2008

  While crackerjack performances might have transformed Ken Ludwig’s second-rate farce into a hilarious evening, that’s not what evolves... More >>

• Savage World

  published October 23, 2008

  Inspired by the story of an African-American boxer wrongfully convicted of murdering a white, Jewish couple, playwright Stephen Fife’s... More >>

• The Lieutenant Nun

  published October 9, 2008

  Billed as a comedy, playwright Odalys Nanin’s cartoonlike dramatization of the life of 17th-century Basque noblewoman Catalina de Erauso... More >>

• Little Black Lies

  published October 2, 2008

  Playwright Steve Stajich’s tenuously directed and underproduced pair of one-acts respectively explores iniquities within the medical... More >>

• 43 Plays for 43 Presidents

  published September 25, 2008

  Often, it’s not just the who, what and why that make a history lesson viable but the how — as in how you tell it. That’s the... More >>

• MIRACLE IN RWANDA

  published September 18, 2008

  I can’t imagine viewing writer-performer Leslie Lewis Sword’s play about surviving the Rwandan genocide without a sense of horror, awe... More >>

• Inside Private Lives

  published September 18, 2008

  Inside Private Lives provides a platform for audience members to interact with infamous or celebrated personages from the 20th century, as... More >>

• Last Call

  published September 4, 2008

  Thirty years after its Edinburgh Fringe festival debut, John Godber’s portrait of the frenetic Yorkshire disco scene has lost none of its... More >>

• Pen

  published August 21, 2008

  Seventeen-year-old Matt (Dennis Bendersky) is a good kid who wants to do right by his disabled mom, Helen (Jill Remez), an MS victim confined to a... More >>

• Howlin' Blues & Dirty Dogs

  published August 7, 2008

  The spirit of the blues pulsates resoundingly throughout this stirring musical based on the life of Big Mama Thornton. Class-act vocalist Barbara... More >>

• Howlin' Blues and Dirty Dogs

  published August 7, 2008

  The spirit of the blues pulsates resoundingly throughout this stirring musical based on the life of Big Mama Thornton. Class-act vocalist Barbara... More >>

• Carroll Corral

  published July 31, 2008

  Goofy, good-natured and outlandishly entertaining, this latest romp from director Matt Walker and his inspired ensemble plucks characters and... More >>

• Alice in One-Hit-Wonderland 2: Through the Looking Glass

  published July 31, 2008

  Goofy, good-natured and outlandishly entertaining, this latest romp from director Matt Walker and his inspired ensemble plucks characters and... More >>

• Desert Sunrise

  published July 17, 2008

  At the heart of Misha Shulman’s flawed rumination on humanity’s struggle to achieve peace is a well-orchestrated pas de deux by... More >>

• Dupe

  published July 3, 2008

  Alex Austin's melodrama centers on a photography collector determined to barter possession of a priceless photograph in exchange for a day —... More >>

• The Last Seder

  published June 26, 2008

  Structured around the Passover ritual, Jennifer Maisel’s satisfying family drama smoothly transcends its ethnic trappings. Marvin (Joseph... More >>

• Someday

  published June 19, 2008

  The problems faced by childless people who long for a family form the overarching theme of Cornerstone Theater’s community-workshop-based... More >>

• Mulatto's Dilemma

  published June 19, 2008

  Juliette Fairley wrote and stars in this crudely crafted melodrama about a penniless mixed-race woman named Annique. Ostensibly based on Edith... More >>