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2010 Stories by Deborah Klugman

• Roccopella

  published November 18, 2010

  Embellished with funky MTV-inspired videos, writer/solo performer George Spielvogel’s goofy, good-natured comedy sports an array of ditzy... More >>

• HYPERBOLE: origins

  published November 11, 2010

  It's not easy to wrap sentences around this fantastical storytelling spectacle created by a collaboration of artists under Sean T. Calwelti's... More >>

• La Razon Blindada (The Armored Reason)

  published September 23, 2010

  How does a prisoner survive without hope? Writer/director Aristides Vargas drew inspiration for this poignantly horrific black comedy from the... More >>

• Stepping on a Few Toes

  published September 16, 2010

  What makes one person's story compelling and another's banal? Maybe it's what people call soul. In her involving one-woman show, writer/performer... More >>

• Bones

  published August 5, 2010

  Childhood sexual abuse may no longer be the unmentionable topic it once was, but that hasn't lessened its horror or salved the terrible scars... More >>

• Grace & Glorie

  published June 17, 2010

  Sensitive direction by Cameron Watson and distinguished performances by Beth Grant and Melinda Page Hamilton transform playwright Tom... More >>

• The Good Woman of Setzuan

  published June 10, 2010

  Gods are no help to man in Bertolt Brecht's bleak parable of a play (translated by Eric Bentley with music by Elizabeth Swados). The question... More >>

• Madagascar

  published June 10, 2010

  JT Rogers' intriguing drama is set at various times in a hotel in Rome and begins with three ostensibly unconnected monologues. A 20-something... More >>

• Tracers

  published June 3, 2010

  Thirty years after its Los Angeles debut, writer John DiFusco's antiwar drama retains its relevance and power. Written collaboratively in the... More >>

• Cumbia de mi Corazon

  published May 6, 2010

  A romance with music, set in the netherworld, playwright Tony Campion’s delectable fable depicts a trio of afterlife employees trying to... More >>

• My Sister in This House

  published April 22, 2010

  In 1933 France, two submissive churchgoing maids named Christine and Lea Papin brutally murdered their employer and her daughter, a crime that... More >>

• Forgiveness

  published February 26, 2010

  What happens to love when the specter of childhood sexual abuse rears its ugly head? Soon-to-be-married Jill (Emily Bergl) and Ben (Peter Smith)... More >>

• Cousin Bette

  published February 5, 2010

  Drawn from Balzac’s La Comèdie humaine, playwright Jeffrey Hatcher’s adaptation revolves around a cunning woman’s campaign... More >>

• Proof

  published January 28, 2010

  What's the link between mathematics and madness? If you inherit your father's genius, will you also fall heir to his lunacy? Playwright David... More >>

• The Imaginary Invalid

  published January 21, 2010

  Lance Davis’ abridged 75-minute adaptation of Molière’s classic eschews all subtlety in an amusing, accessible romp with plenty... More >>