Email Author Lovell Estell III

2010 Stories by Lovell Estell III

• The Santaland Diaries

  published December 16, 2010

  Even in these lean times, when jobs are hard to come by, David Sedaris' humorous monologue (adapted by Joe Mantello) about the absurdities of his... More >>

• The Sunset Limited

  published November 25, 2010

  John Perrin Flynn’s topnotch staging of Cormac McCarthy’s 1996 two-character play shows that the author is a gifted dramatist as well as... More >>

• Attack of the Rotting Corpses

  published November 4, 2010

  Zombie Joe's short, fun offering is a chaotic mix of Night of the Living Dead and Hotel, with just a smattering of old-school... More >>

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

  published October 28, 2010

  The big-band show in this musical (book by Luca Ellis, Paul Litteral and Jeremy Aldridge) is staged as a behind-the-scenes live taping of a... More >>

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

  published October 14, 2010

  The big-band show in this musical (book by Luca Ellis, Paul Litteral and Jeremy Aldridge) is staged as a behind-the-scenes live taping of a... More >>

• Jewtopia

  published September 2, 2010

  It's been a little more than seven years since the long-running original comedy was last seen in the City of Angels. This revival is far more... More >>

• Topdog/Underdog

  published August 12, 2010

  Lincoln and Booth are bizarre monikers for a pair of siblings. In this solid revival of Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer Prize–winning drama,... More >>

• The Jesus Hickey

  published June 17, 2010

  Billboards, potato chips, freeway underpasses, tree stumps and pigeon coops are just some of the places Christ’s image has appeared, or... More >>

• Four Places

  published May 20, 2010

  The family outing on display in Joel Drake Johnson's unsettling comedy resembles a gathering of ornery, wounded jackals. Siblings Warren (Tim... More >>

• Four Places

  published May 20, 2010

  The family outing on display in Joel Drake Johnson's unsettling comedy resembles a gathering of ornery, wounded jackals. Siblings Warren (Tim... More >>

• Jawbone of an Ass

  published May 6, 2010

  The title is lifted from an Old Testament passage and is fitting for Nan Schmid’s sparkling satire about faith run amok in the heartland.... More >>

• Side by Side by Sondheim

  published March 18, 2010

  Stephen Sondheim has graced the musical theater landscape with wry urbanity for more than 50 years. This 1976 revue of the composer and... More >>

• Rock 'n Ridicule

  published March 18, 2010

  The country might be flat broke ’n broken, but we have an embarrassment of riches in material for political and social satire, which this new... More >>

• Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead

  published January 28, 2010

  Yes, Charlie Brown, you're still a good man. But in Bert Royal's darkly funny parody of the Peanuts comic strip, the gang is all grown up,... More >>