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2008 Stories by Deborah Klugman

• March On, Dream Normal

  published June 5, 2008

  Well served by its intimate venue, Jeanette Scherrer’s slice-of-life drama communicates the torments of a soldier newly returned... More >>

• I Gelosi

  published May 29, 2008

  Writer-director David Bridel underpins his delightful comedy with historical events, making a vastly entertaining work richer and more relevant. I... More >>

• Hot & Ready

  published May 22, 2008

  intimates steamy sex; true to that innuendo, this pair of monologues explores two contemporary women’s perspectives on romance... More >>

• Hillary Agonistes

  published May 15, 2008

  It’s June 2009. Hillary Clinton (Priscilla Barnes) has ascended to the Oval Office. Suddenly, without warning, 65 million people, including... More >>

• Trapezoid

  published May 8, 2008

  In writer Nic Cha Kim’s amiable sci-fi comedy, a robotics company recruits a slam poet named Peter (Lanny Joon) to invest both art and soul... More >>

• Emergency

  published May 1, 2008

  Near Liberty Island, a slave ship named Remembrance materializes from the murky depths of the Hudson River. The nation is electrified. Crowds of... More >>

• Klub

  published April 24, 2008

  In Mitch Watson’s brilliant existential satire Klüb — a revival of the Actors’ Gang’s 1992 production — a group of... More >>

• Showing Our Age

  published April 17, 2008

  Performed by a six-person ensemble under Laurel Ollstein and Theresa Chavez’s direction, this docudrama dramatizes a patchwork of stories... More >>

• Time's Scream and Hurry

  published April 10, 2008

  Of uneven caliber, these three monologues by writer-director Paul Hoan Zeidler share urban settings and violent motifs. In “So-So’s... More >>

• Tallgrass Gothic

  published April 10, 2008

  There’s not much happening in the backwater farm community where Melanie Marnich’s steamy drama unfolds: Folks go to church, get drunk,... More >>

• Closer

  published March 6, 2008

  A sharp, savvy, often visceral work, Patrick Marber’s unblinking probe into the modern-day battle of the sexes emerges bloodless and... More >>

• Metamorphoses

  published January 10, 2008

  Made up of a dozen or so tales, Mary Zimmerman's alternately funny and sorrowful adaptation of Ovid's classic poem relays centuries-old myths with... More >>

• IL BIDONE

  published January 10, 2008

  Part of a trilogy that includes La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, Federico Fellini's 1955 film Il Bidone grew out of the Italian neo-realist... More >>

• The Time Machine

  published January 10, 2008

  It's a safe bet that writer-director Phil Abatecola and producer-lead performer Julian Bane are big fans of this H.G. Wells science-fiction... More >>

• WHAT THE BUTLER SAW

  published January 10, 2008

  Risqué and relevant when it first premiered, Joe Orton's 1969 lampoon of the British mental-health system — and of the repressed... More >>

• Stupid KIds

  published January 10, 2008

  Playwright John C. Russell might have been a fly on the wall in the school cafeteria when he wrote this endearing and insightful teen drama about... More >>

• Othello

  published January 10, 2008

  Director Lisa Wolpe sets Shakespeare's passionate play in 1930s Fascist Italy, illuminating little of its complexity. From the outset, Fran... More >>