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2010 Stories by L.A. Weekly Theater Critics

• Theater Reviews: Groundlings Holiday Show, The First Jo-el, Diva on the Verge

  published December 23, 2010

  GO  BOB BAKER'S NUTCRACKER Need a novel gift idea that'll be met with more gratitude than yet another... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Caught, The Santaland Diaries, Julia

  published December 16, 2010

  THE ANIMALS AND ME Vinnie Torrente's whimsical play has much of the flavor of a children's book, but it's undermined by clumsy... More >>

• THEATER REVIEWS: A CHICAGO CHRISTMAS CAROL, EXIT 10, THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, OUR BEDS ARE CROWDED

  published December 9, 2010

  GO A CHICAGO CHRISTMAS CAROL In 1906, Upton Sinclair's muckraking novel The Jungle exposed the appalling and... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Cinderella, Schmutzigen Deutsche Kabarett

  published December 2, 2010

  GO  CINDERELLA This very amusing romp transplants English music hall and holiday pantomime into the... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, Looking for Paul, The Night of the Tribades

  published November 25, 2010

  CALLIGRAPHY Large prosceniums don't always favor the stories they frame. The cultural arena in Velina Hasu Houston's new play... More >>

• Theater Reviews: The Limitations of Genetic Technology, Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein

  published November 18, 2010

  CRIMES OF THE HEART is a play that's been widely performed ever since it won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1981. But for... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Lemon Durang Pie, Hyperbole: Origins, Lucia Mad

  published November 11, 2010

  BARRYMORE William Luce's (The Belle of Amherst) 1996 two-character play studies the rakish actor John Barrymore (Jack... More >>

• THEATER REVIEWS: THE AUTUMN GARDEN, VON BACH, DIVING NORMAL

  published November 4, 2010

  GO  ATTACK OF THE ROTTING CORPSES Zombie Joe's short, fun offering is a chaotic mix of Night of the... More >>

• Theater Reviews: From Hoboken to Hollywood: A Journey Through the Great American Songbook

  published October 28, 2010

  BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE First produced in 1958, writer John Van Druten's creaky comedy extols the notion that women may lay... More >>

• Theater Reviews: K2, The Train Driver

  published October 21, 2010

  EVERYTHING WILL BE DIFFERENT Teenage Charlotte (Alana Dietze) is intense, emotional and not attractive in a conventional... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Loveland, Blithe Spirit, The Butcher of Baraboo

  published October 14, 2010

  GO  BLITHE SPIRIT Noël Coward's comedy faced an acid test in its first outing: It opened in the... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Chico's Angels: Chicas in Chains, Hello, Merrily We Roll Along

  published October 7, 2010

  GO  CHICO'S ANGELS: CHICAS IN CHAINS Somewhere in an alternate TV universe, where it is always the 1970s... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Titus Andronicus, Debbie Reynolds: Alive and Fabulous

  published September 30, 2010

  GO  DEBBIE REYNOLDS: ALIVE AND FABULOUS On opening night, myriad Debbie Reynolds cronies decked out in... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Of Grapes and Nuts, Paradise Park, The Web

  published September 23, 2010

  THE BIRTHDAY BOYS In Aaron Kozak's drama, three young soldiers performing routine guard duties in Baghdad's Green Zone are... More >>

• Theater Reviews: The Glass Menagerie, The Good Boy, Stepping on a Few Toes

  published September 16, 2010

  ANAÏS: AN EROTIC EVENING WITH ANAÏS NIN The famously candid diaries of Anaïs Nin avoid one weekend in the '50s,... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Something to Crow About, Waiting fr Lefty and more

  published September 9, 2010

  BAIL ME OUT Auto shop proprietor Joe Bidone (playwright Renato Biribin Jr.) views the world with a sense of bewildered... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Jewtopia, Last Fare, Titus Redux

  published September 2, 2010

  EAT THE RUNT Sometimes a good concept, a canny script and talented performers add up to less than one hopes for. Directed by... More >>

• Theater Reviews: A Wither's Tale, All My Sons,Karma the Musical

  published August 26, 2010

  GO ALL MY SONS With the recent BP oil disaster, the Enron debacle, and the misadventures of financial moguls... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Parasite Drag, Free Man of Color, Witch Ball

  published August 19, 2010

  BOYS' LIFE Watching director Dan Velez's uninspired production, it might seem hard to believe that Howard Korder's acerbic... More >>

• Medea, A Wolf Inside the Fence, Topdog/Underdog

  published August 12, 2010

  BECOMING NORMAN Utah native Norman P. Dixon has had two coming-out parties: first, as a gay man and second as an artist. At... More >>

• Theater Reviews: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk, They Call Me Mister Fry, Bones

  published August 5, 2010

  GO  BONES Childhood sexual abuse may no longer be the unmentionable topic it once was, but that... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Bedroom Farce, Brewsie & Willie

  published July 29, 2010

  THE BAKER'S OVEN The softly Southern lilt of the imploring, impassioned pastor's voice sermonizing on patriotism playing as... More >>

• Theater Reviews: The Rendezvous, Nano Nation, Brooklyn, U.S.A.

  published July 22, 2010

  GO  BROOKLYN, U.S.A. This crime melodrama by John Bright and Asa Bordages, who wrote many of the classic... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Thurgood, As the Globe Warms, I'm Not Here Anymore

  published July 15, 2010

  AS THE GLOBE WARMS Solo performer Heather Woodbury creates elaborate worlds. For her performance, What Ever, Woodbury... More >>

• Theater Reviews: Beyond, Priscilla's Perfect Day, Arcadia

  published July 8, 2010

  ANGELOS/DATING STORIES The setting for Tony Perzow's comedy, Angelos, is a New York City barber shop peopled with a colorful... More >>