Email Author Lovell Estell III

2012 Stories by Lovell Estell III

• A Snow White Christmas

  published December 20, 2012

  Just in time for the holidays comes writer Kris Lythgoe's delightful reimagining of this fairy tale nicely packaged in the style of British panto,... More >>

• 86'd

  published December 13, 2012

  What would you do for a hefty slice of $5 million? Some answers come along with laughs in this dark comedy by Jon Polito and Darryl Armbruster. At... More >>

• Silent

  published November 29, 2012

  That Los Angeles now is considered the homeless capital of the United States makes the West Coast premiere of Irish playwright Pat Kinevane's... More >>

• Anna Lucasta

  published November 15, 2012

  Phillip Yordan originally wrote this play for a Polish family, but its blunt theme of liberated female sexuality was deemed unsuitable for the... More >>

• Bald Soprano: A Christmas Anti-Play

  published November 8, 2012

  Even after 60 years and counting, Eugene Ionesco's classic absurdist farce The Bald Soprano is still one of France's most popular and... More >>

• Faith: Part One of a Mexican Trilogy

  published November 1, 2012

  This is the final installment of Evelina Fernandez's epic trilogy chronicling the Mexican-American immigrant experience. A World War II Arizona... More >>

• You Can't Take It With You

  published October 25, 2012

  Imagine a home where live snakes, spontaneous ballet dancing, fireworks explosions and occasional xylophone playing are ho-hum affairs, and you'll... More >>

• Julius Caesar

  published October 11, 2012

  There were a handful of other Elizabethan dramas written about Julius Caesar, but Shakespeare's offers a more entertaining dramatization of Rome's... More >>

• Three Views of the Same Object

  published September 27, 2012

  Love, aging and death contour Henry Murray's multilayered play Three Views of the Same Object. Academic professionals Poppy and Jesse... More >>

• Yard Sale This Sunday!

  published September 20, 2012

  On balance, director Karen Maruyama and the Groundlings' Sunday Company comics do a solid job of mining these 20-plus sketch routines for laughs.... More >>

• Assassins

  published September 6, 2012

  America does offer equal opportunity for all when it comes to gun violence. That's the disquieting motif of Stephen Sondheim's brutally funny... More >>

• Frickin

  published August 23, 2012

  It's the 10-year reunion for the class of Brooklyn's FDR High School, and the past and present are about to collide. Gina (Gabrielle Wagner), Jenn... More >>

• The Adding Machine

  published August 9, 2012

  Welcome to the cheerless world of Mr. Zero (a fine turn by David Allen Jones), a numbers-crunching office drone, 35 years on the same job ("Never... More >>

• Jekyll and Hyde

  published July 12, 2012

  Frank Wildhorn’s musicals are generally hit-and-miss affairs that have been both panned and praised over the years. But for this strong... More >>

• The New Electric Ballroom

  published June 28, 2012

  There is something oddly redolent of Samuel Beckett in Enda Walsh's story about the woeful plight visited upon three sisters, The New Electric... More >>

• Iris

  published May 31, 2012

  This latest offering from Cirque du Soleil is a dazzling homage to the cinematic arts. Directed and choreographed by Philippe Decouflé with... More >>

• Camp Logan

  published May 24, 2012

  Celeste Bedford Walker's compelling drama is based on an obscure incident from the paleolithic era of American race relations. The script follows... More >>

• Learned Ladies

  published May 24, 2012

  Four hundred years haven’t dulled the comic edge or the timeliness of this little-known gem of Molière’s. Director Heather... More >>

• Missionary Position

  published May 10, 2012

  This is the second part of Steven Fales' Mormon Boy Trilogy, which is now running in full spectrum on different nights at the Hudson... More >>

• The Vault: Bankrupt

  published April 12, 2012

  This amusing parody about the recent financial meltdown and uber consumerism gives new meaning to the expression "blood bank." Henry Reynolds (Sam... More >>

• Waiting for Godot

  published March 29, 2012

  This stellar revival of Samuel Beckett's absurdist classic Waiting for Godot makes it a fresh, new experience. Director Michael Arabian has... More >>

• Working

  published March 22, 2012

  In a period of high unemployment and assaults on unions and public service pensions, this revival of Working, a musical homage to the... More >>

• Three Year Swim Club

  published March 1, 2012

  Set on the island of Maui in the 1930s, Lee Tonouchi's drama tells the little-known story of schoolteacher Soichi Sakamoto, who took a group of... More >>

• On Holy Ground

  published February 23, 2012

  Stephanie Liss' pair of one-acts explores the timeworn Israeli/Palestinian conflict through the experience of three women. "Daughter of My People"... More >>

• Buddha: A Fantastic Journey

  published February 16, 2012

  There are an estimated 500 million practicing Buddhists in the world today, one of whom is Evan Brenner, the creator and performer of this one-man... More >>