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2006 Stories by L.A. Weekly Theater Critics

• Theater Reviews

  published December 28, 2006

  THE AWAKENING Joshua (Derek Shaun) saw his father lynched when he was a child, causing his mother to... More >>

• Theater Reviews

  published December 21, 2006

  AUDITION! THE MUSICAL Between her third and 12th birthdays, 1950s child star Evelyn Rudie earned an Emmy nomination, a Walk of Fame star,... More >>

• Mastering Sex and Tortillas!

  published December 14, 2006

  Adelina Anthony — a.k.a. La Profesora, Mama Chocha, and Papi Duro — conducts her riotous one-woman show in Spanglish, but her... More >>

• Mabou Mines Dollhouse and Weekend Theater Reviews

  published December 7, 2006

  The men in director Lee Breuer and performer Maude Mitchell’s bawdy, touring adaptation of Ibsen’s play tower at around 4 feet... More >>

• Theater Reviews

  published December 7, 2006

  MABOU MINES DOLLHOUSE The men in director Lee Breuer and performer Maude Mitchell’s bawdy, touring adaptation of Ibsen’s play tower ... More >>

• Eurydice and Weekend Theater Reviews

  published November 30, 2006

  Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House (last winter at South Coast Repertory) and Demeter in the City (last summer at REDCAT) are... More >>

• Theater Reviews

  published November 30, 2006

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• Theater Reviews

  published November 23, 2006

    BEST/WORST First, take David (Ben Parrillo), a salesman who wants a new account at work, then add his wife, Angela (Casey... More >>

• It Ain't No Fairy Tale

  published November 16, 2006

  Just when you feel you’d rather throw yourself out a tenth-floor window than sit through another autobiographical one-woman show about... More >>

• Theater Reviews

  published November 16, 2006

  THE COMEDY OF ERRORS In a streamlined adaptation by director Steven Shields, a cross-dressing cast adds... More >>

• Weekend Theater Reviews

  published November 9, 2006

  DEATH OF A SALESMAN Okay, I admit it: I wasn’t looking forward to seeing Willy Loman’s dreams shattered yet again. When the play bega... More >>

• Theater Reviews

  published November 9, 2006

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• Weekend Theater Reviews

  published November 2, 2006

   DIRK Like the book on which it’s based, the plot in this stage adaptation of Douglas Adams’ novel Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detect... More >>

• Theater Reviews

  published November 2, 2006

   ALI: The Man, the Myth, the People’... More >>

• Theater Reviews

  published October 26, 2006

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• Weekend Theater Reviews

  published October 19, 2006

    THE AMERICA PLAY Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks places Abraham Lincoln, a recurring figure in her plays, at the center of a surrealistic... More >>

• Theater Reviews

  published October 19, 2006

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• Theater Reviews

  published October 12, 2006

  THE BOMBA TRILOGY Christopher Kelley’s dizzying trio of talky one-acts toys with the unease betwee... More >>

• Theater Reviews

  published October 5, 2006

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• Weekend Theater Reviews

  published September 28, 2006

  SIDES: THE FEAR IS REAL The nightmare of the actors’ audition/performance keeps coming around — once, it was Christopher... More >>

• Theater Reviews

  published September 28, 2006

  CRACK WHORE, BULIMIC, GIRL-NEXT-DOOR Three actresses play various facets of a single character in Marnie Olson’s one-act about body image... More >>

• Urinetown and More Weekend Theater Reviews

  published September 21, 2006

  Part political cartoon, part faux folk tale, Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis’ gloriously irreverent hit Broadway musical delivers a hilarious... More >>

• Theater Reviews

  published September 21, 2006

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• Weekend Theater Reviews

  published September 14, 2006

    DO LORD REMEMBER ME Next time you hear some guy bitching about how there’s no good theater in L.A., hogtie him, toss him into you... More >>

• Theater Reviews

  published September 14, 2006

    THE BACCHAE Charles L. Mee’s take on Euripides’ Theban tragedy is an acquired taste. Written in the early 1990s, it’s a kind... More >>