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2008 Stories by L.A. Weekly Theater Critics

• Theater Reviews: Yo Ho Ho! A Pirate's Christmas, It's a Stevie Wonderful Life!

  published December 25, 2008

  GROUNDLINGS HOLIDAY SHOW This evening of sketch comedy contains a bit of everything, from basic improvisations and... More >>

• Theater Reviews: The Life, Babes in Toyland, Holiday Fever!

  published December 18, 2008

  GO  BABES IN TOYLAND While visions of nutcrackers and Victorian misers dance through the Yuletide entertainment... More >>

• Theater Reviews: My Trip Down the Pink Carpet, Scrooge Must Die!

  published December 11, 2008

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• Theater Reviews: Woyzeck, Daddy's Dyin' Who's Got the Will

  published November 27, 2008

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• New Theater Reviews: The School of Night, The Joy Luck Club

  published November 20, 2008

  BEAUTY OF ASHES Writer and star Peres Owino’s furious semibiographical poetry and dance piece about female victimization... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Eat the Runt, Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Cute With Chris

  published November 13, 2008

  GO BACKSEATS & BATHROOM STALLS It used to be said that comedy was about the restoration of the social order. But... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Lions, Spring Awakening, A Man's A Man

  published November 6, 2008

  BETTER LATE THAN NEVER Writer-performer Virginia Watson’s staged bio takes its title from the 25 years it took her to... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Lovelace: A Rock Opera, U.S. Drag, How Cissy Grew

  published October 30, 2008

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• Theater Reviews: Tragedy: A Tragedy, Waiting in the Wings, Good Bobby

  published October 23, 2008

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• Theater Reviews: The Sequence, Faithful, Two Trains Running

  published October 16, 2008

  ASSES & ELEPHANTS Playwright Suzanne Bressler’s sweet but unevenly executed romantic comedy offers an election-year... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Hamlet, Razorback, The Most Mediocre Story Never Told

  published October 9, 2008

  ARMSTRONG’S KID Stanley Bennett Clay’s drama about guilt, anger and repression centers on a trial stemming from... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Joe's Garage, Sea Change, Fatboy

  published October 2, 2008

  BE LIKE WATER Veteran performance-art monologist Dan Kwong takes a stab at multicharacter, dramatic narrative with this rather... More >>

• Theater Reviews: 9 to 5: The Musical, 43 Plays for 43 Presidents

  published September 25, 2008

  GO  ASLEEP ON A BICYCLE  is Tony Foster’s humorous journey into a dreamscape world... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Red Scare on Sunset, Miracle in Rwanda

  published September 18, 2008

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• Theater Reviews: The Redhead Musical Manifesto, The Belle of Amherst

  published September 11, 2008

  AGAMEMNON Stephen Wadsworth stages Robert Fagles’ translation of Aeschylus’ tragedy in the amphitheater at the Getty... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Fucking Hollywood, Educating Rita

  published September 4, 2008

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• Theater Reviews: Bury the Dead, Coriolanus, Inherit the Wind

  published August 28, 2008

  ABIGAIL’S PARTY What might have been provocative in 1979, when Mike Leigh’s play first appeared, now feels dated.... More >>

• Theater Reviews: The Bad Arm — Confessions of a Dodgy Irish Dancer, Alley Cat and Some Kind of Love Story

  published August 21, 2008

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• Theater Reviews: Freedom of Speech, Just Like White People

  published August 14, 2008

  THEATER PICK  BEVERLY WINWOOD PRESENTS THE ACTORS SHOWCASE With her chrome-plated red bob, manicured nails and chiseled,... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Gulls, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Howlin' Blues and Dirty Dogs

  published August 7, 2008

  BAD PENNY consists of speeches and dialogues by Mac Wellman that accrue into a theatrical poem/meditation on American life,... More >>

• Theater Reviews: American Dead, Alice in Wonderland 2: Behind the Looking Glass

  published July 31, 2008

  GO  AMERICAN DEAD Brett Neveu’s play, first commissioned by Steppenwolf Theatre Company in... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Betrayal, Eh Joe, An Attic an Exit

  published July 24, 2008

  GO  THE ACCOMPLICES We often call World War II “The Good War,” but Bernard Weinraub’s documentary... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Assassins, The Comedy of Errors

  published July 17, 2008

  THEATER PICK  ASSASSINS When composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and writer John Weidman look at assassins, their vision... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Rose, Spring's Awakening

  published July 10, 2008

  CAPSIZED FLOTSAM Donaco Smyth’s fun comedy is set in — and ostensibly modeled after — the witty literary... More >>

• Theater Reviews: American Tales, In on It

  published July 3, 2008

  GO  AMERICAN TALES For these one-act musicals, writer-adapter Ken Stone and composer Jan Powell turn to... More >>