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2007 Stories by L.A. Weekly Theater Critics

• Theater Reviews: A Charlie James Brown Christmas, The Gay Mafia: Nu-Queer Winter

  published December 27, 2007

  A CHARLIE JAMES BROWN CHRISTMAS This new holiday effort by the Troubadour Theater Company is a loving poke at Charles Schulz’s TV cartoon... More >>

• Theater Reviews: The Color Purple, High School Musical, Bob's Holiday Office Party

  published December 20, 2007

     BOB’S... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Astroglyde2007, Polaroid Stories, Tango

  published December 13, 2007

   ASTROGLYDE2007 These five solo pieces succeed because of some wonderfully off-the-wall content, good writing, and humorous, energetic... More >>

• New Theater Reviews

  published December 6, 2007

  ANYTHING A comedy written in the nothing-human-disgusts-me vein, Tim McNeil’s play looks at what happens when a middle-aged widower... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Atlanta, Local Story, Schoolhouse Rock

  published December 6, 2007

  ANYTHING A comedy written in the nothing-human-disgusts-me vein, Tim McNeil’s play looks at what happens when a middle-age... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Screwballs, Winter Wonderettes, Lessons

  published November 29, 2007

  {mosimage} ALL THIS, AND HEAVEN TOO “I stopped believing in things when Diana Ross started playin... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Attempts on Her Life, The Last Schwartz, The Piano Lesson

  published November 22, 2007

  ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE Playwright Martin Crimp’s pastiche of cultural perceptions and judgments is composed of 17 disparate sketches united b... More >>

• Theater Reviews: The Bald Soprano, Dear Brutus, Fool For Love

  published November 15, 2007

  THE BALD SOPRANO Eugene Ionesco’s brilliant absurdist farce unfolds in a universe dislodged from logic and even common sense. Yet, even i... More >>

• Theater Reviews: En Un Sol Amarillo, The Glory of Living, Loyal Women

  published November 8, 2007

  Theater Pick: EN UN SOL AMARILLO (MEMORIAS DE UN TEMBLOR) or IN A YELLOW SUN (MEMORIES OF AN EARTHQUAKE) Playwright-director César Brie and the ... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Waiting For Godot, 'Nami, Virgin Love

  published November 1, 2007

   BIRDY It’s no surprise that a poet-dramatist as fine as Naomi Wallace would be attracted to William Wharton’s 1978... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Bunny Bunny, Eenie Meanie, Little Fish

  published October 25, 2007

  {mosimage}  ALWAYS — BUT NOT FOREVER Playwright Henry Jaglom’s Bergmanesque marital comedy focuses on the frenzied desperation of... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Lost Angeles, Point Break, This Lime Tree Bower

  published October 18, 2007

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• Theater Reviews: The Drawer Boy, Hollywood Hellhouse, Max Maven

  published October 11, 2007

  THE BATTLE OF WOUNDED ME Comic Heather Le Roy talks a good game when she’s deep into a caricature of one of her many Alabama relatives, or... More >>

• Theater Reviews

  published October 4, 2007

  CHEKHOV MANIA: A RUSSIAN VAUDEVILLE Straight out of the late 19th century, the “Pan-Siberian Touring Co.” brings us three of Chekho... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Black Watch, Clay, Lauren Weedman, Durango

  published September 27, 2007

  {mosimage} GO BLACK WATCH Part docudrama and part ballet, Gregory Burke’s play is an homage to th... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Hair, Girl, 20, Leap

  published September 20, 2007

  I WAS A TEENAGE HOMO! This schizophrenic musical, with book and lyrics by Jeff Scott and Bill Fagan, and music by Scott, crosses I Was a... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Avenue Q, Tug of War, The Misanthrope

  published September 13, 2007

  GO LA OFRENDA (THE OFFERING) Mix a TV afterschool-special plotline with magic realism and you get writer-director José Casas’ melodramatic yet ... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Pirates & Ninjas, A Matter of Honor

  published September 6, 2007

  PIRATES & NINJAS Arrrrgh. Yarrrr. Keep those frayed trousers swashbuckled. Just ignore the masked figures in black, scaling the walls like... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Cirque du Soleil's Corteo, The Hasty Heart

  published August 30, 2007

  CONFESSIONS OF A CATHOLIC CHILD Elizabeth Appell’s instructive melodrama about a woman’s struggle to take responsibility for her own... More >>

• Theater Reviews

  published August 23, 2007

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• Theater Reviews: Wicked, Trying, Monsieur Chopin

  published August 16, 2007

  ALICE IN WONDERLAND THRU THE LOOKING GLASS Zombie Joe’s Underground presents Lewis Carroll’s dream with songs (musical score and lyrics ... More >>

• Reviews of Paradise Lost, Bob & Ed's Discount Enlightenment Warehouse

  published August 9, 2007

  ALICE IN WONDERLAND Imagine a summer overdose on Disneyland where, say during your hundredth trip when... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Eccentric, Power, Dracula and More

  published August 2, 2007

  PICK ECCENTRIC Ernest Hemmings’ gruesomely funny play is a cynicism-fest about promiscuity and marital frustration. The Winkermans (Jame... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Zorro in Hell, The Idiot Box, Bad Seed and More

  published July 26, 2007

  {mosimage}PICK  ALICE IN ONE-HIT WONDERLAND Building on their history of stringing classical plays and literature ever so loosely around pop... More >>

• Theater Reviews: One Fell Swoop, Eddie Kill the President, Pterodactyls

  published July 19, 2007

  PICK NEW ORIGINAL WORKS FESTIVAL 2007 Already in its fourth year, REDCAT’s New Original Works (NOW) series has become one of the... More >>