Email Author Lovell Estell III

2008 Stories by Lovell Estell III

• West Side Story

  published December 18, 2008

  Now more than a half-century old, conceiver Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents (book), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) and Leonard Bernstein’s (music)... More >>

• Killing Game

  published December 4, 2008

  Absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco’s little-known play seems a logical, and theological, extension of his more famous, politically charged... More >>

• Daddy's Dyin', Who's Got the Will

  published November 27, 2008

  More than 20 years after its Los Angeles debut, Del Shores’ comedy about a dysfunctional family in 1986 Texas is still good for laughs.... More >>

• Histrionics

  published November 20, 2008

  This slate of one-acts, based on recorded events, is told through characters forgotten by history. The idea is intriguing, but the end results are... More >>

• DADDY’S DYIN’ WHO’S GOT THE WILL

  published November 20, 2008

  More than 20 years after its Los Angeles debut, Del Shores' comedy about a dysfunctional family in 1986 Texas is still good for laughs. Director... More >>

• Good Bobby

  published November 13, 2008

  Few families have commanded more public fascination or newsprint than the Kennedy clan. In his engaging character study, Brian Lee Franklin... More >>

• Gem of the Ocean

  published November 6, 2008

  August Wilson’s 10-play chronicle of the 20th-century African-American experience is one of the great achievements in dramatic literature.... More >>

• Gem of the Ocean

  published November 6, 2008

  August Wilson's ten-play chronicle of the 20th-century African-American experience is one of the great achievements in dramatic literature. Gem... More >>

• The Other Kennedy

  published October 23, 2008

  Few families have commanded more public fascination — or newsprint — than the Kennedy clan. In his engaging character study, Brian Lee... More >>

• Two Trains Running

  published October 16, 2008

  The seventh of 10 plays in his Pittsburgh Cycle, which chronicles 100 years of African-American history, this production, which runs well over... More >>

• M. Butterfly

  published October 9, 2008

  David Henry Hwang’s 1988 drama receives a fine staging by director Derek Charles Livingston. Hwang artfully blends the story of... More >>

• Asleep on a Bicycle

  published September 25, 2008

  Asleep on a Bicycle is Tony Foster’s humorous journey into a dreamscape world where nothing is as it seems. Linda (Gina Garrison) is... More >>

• Red Scare on Sunset

  published September 18, 2008

  Charles Busch’s raucous political farce takes place during the 1950s, when paranoia over the “Commie menace” was bearing down on... More >>

• Fucking Hollywood

  published September 4, 2008

  Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to update a classic. Such is the case with Paul Wagar’s adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s La... More >>

• Respect: The Girl Em-Powered Musical

  published August 21, 2008

  Respect is an engaging and fun mix of music, song, theatrical shtick. Dorothy Marcic's script is based on her book, Respect: Women and... More >>

• Body Politic

  published August 14, 2008

  Jessica Goldberg's thought-provoking drama explores the ugly cost of our war in Iraq, opening with a short but haunting scene at Walter Reed... More >>

• Lost on Lankershim

  published August 7, 2008

  This slate of one-acts, written by John Falchi, offers its share of entertaining moments. First up is “Cowboy Goodbyes,” which is more... More >>

• Betrayal

  published July 24, 2008

  Unlike the seedy environs of Harold Pinter’s earliest celebrated dramas, the mise en scène of his 1978 tale of infidelity and... More >>

• Of Equal Measure

  published July 17, 2008

  As America is poised to elect a black man to the White House, Tanya Barfield’s historical drama revisits a time when blacks weren’t even... More >>

• Shipwrecked! An Entertainment

  published July 10, 2008

  is an engaging mix of storytelling and fun written by Donald Margulies. The story chronicles the outsized life of one Louis de Rougemont, who... More >>

• Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead

  published June 19, 2008

  Bert Royal’s “Peanuts”-inspired comedy reunites some familiar folks from the popular comic strip for some high school fun and... More >>

• Finally

  published June 19, 2008

  Stephen Belber’s haunting Rashomon-styled drama is powered by Morlan Higgins’ strong, emotionally nuanced performance. He plays four... More >>

• And Her Hair Went With Her

  published May 22, 2008

  The barbershop has always held significance in the black community, a place where the gents gathered for haircuts and rapped about politics,... More >>

• I'd Rather Be Right

  published May 15, 2008

  Perhaps the current occupant of the White House might successfully solve our nation’s suffocating monetary problems if his cabinet meetings... More >>

• Safe

  published May 8, 2008

  Sometime in the future, the enemies of America will unleash a barrage of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons upon the populace. Who will... More >>