Email Author Neal Weaver

2008 Stories by Neal Weaver

• Holiday Fever!

  published December 18, 2008

  Eight singing, dancing, clowning performers cavort and strut their stuff against a lavish background of silver lamé, snowflakes and... More >>

• Scrooge Must Die!

  published December 11, 2008

  The Actors’ Gang’s X-rated take on Dickens’ classic tale gives new meaning to the phrase “a blue Christmas.”... More >>

• Death and the Maiden

  published December 4, 2008

  Ariel Dorfman’s political/philosophical melodrama centers on Paulina (Hungarian actress Enci), who was tortured and raped while a prisoner of... More >>

• Shock Therapy

  published November 27, 2008

  Psychiatrist Colin (Scott Paulin) and his painter wife, Becca (Lisa Robbins), are throwing a Labor Day bash. But Colin specializes in treating... More >>

• Backseats & Bathroom Stalls

  published November 13, 2008

  It used to be said that comedy was about the restoration of the social order. But writer Rob Mersola seems intent on demonstrating that, at ground... More >>

• Backseats & Bathroom Stalls: A Not-So Romantic Comedy of Bad Manners

  published November 13, 2008

  It used to be said that comedy was about the restoration of the social order. But writer Rob Mersola seems intent on demonstrating that, at ground... More >>

• Mary's Wedding

  published November 6, 2008

  Canadian playwright Stephen Massicotte tries, in a two-actor play, to re-create a World War I battlefield, a horseback ride across the Canadian... More >>

• Love's Old Sweet Song

  published October 30, 2008

  This wacky 1940 William Saroyan comedy celebrates the Fresno writer’s centennial year. In Depression-era Bakersfield, spinster Ann Hamilton... More >>

• Bittersweet Valentine

  published October 23, 2008

  Noël Coward's career was in eclipse and he was dealing with his own declining powers when he wrote this bittersweet comedy set in a charity... More >>

• Kiss of the Spider Woman

  published October 9, 2008

  Manuel Puig’s novel dealt with the volatile relations between frivolous gay window-decorator Molina (Chad Borden), and Valentin (Daniel... More >>

• Made Me Nuclear: The Operetta

  published October 2, 2008

  On March 1, 2006, singer-songwriter Charlie Lustman was informed by his doctor that he had a rare osteosarcoma (bone cancer) of the upper jaw.... More >>

• 9 to 5: The Musical

  published September 25, 2008

  9 to 5 is based on the 1979 hit film, with a rollicking score by Dolly Parton, a clever and fast-paced script by the movie’s... More >>

• It's the Housewives!

  published September 18, 2008

  The Housewives, in this rock musical with book by Hope Juber and Ellen Guylas, are three moms who put together an act for the PTA talent night,... More >>

• True Love

  published September 11, 2008

  This biographical play, written and acted by Walter Williamson and Larry Thomlinson, deals with the relations between Pulitzer Prize–winning... More >>

• Letter to the World

  published September 11, 2008

  Few writers embraced as many contradictions as 19th-century New England poet Emily Dickinson. Though a lifelong spinster and recluse from the age... More >>

• Antiwar Movements

  published August 28, 2008

  In Irwin Shaw’s 1935 expressionistic antiwar play, six soldiers, killed in combat in an unspecified war, stand up and refuse to be buried. At... More >>

• Cherchez la Femme

  published August 21, 2008

  This strange, almost Pirandellian one-act is not what we expect from Arthur Miller. A former New York policeman turned private investigator, Tom... More >>

• Suffer the Long Night

  published August 14, 2008

  Writer Mary Ruth Clarke and writer-director-actor-producer Greg Glienna tell the dizzy tale of an inept community theater. The company’s... More >>

• Suddenly, Last Summer

  published August 7, 2008

  When Tennessee Williams wrote this play in 1958, prefrontal lobotomy was largely discredited, but it remained a hot issue for Williams. His... More >>

• A Company of Wayward Saints

  published July 31, 2008

  The leader-impresario, Harlequin (Andrew Mueller), of a stranded, down-on-its-luck commedia dell’arte troupe meets a wealthy patron who... More >>

• The Accomplices

  published July 24, 2008

  We often call World War II “The Good War,” but Bernard Weinraub’s documentary drama reminds us of its less benevolent aspects. He... More >>

• Shots in the Dark

  published July 17, 2008

  When composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and writer John Weidman look at assassins, their vision is wayward, tough, ambiguous, sympathetic and... More >>

• Assassins

  published July 17, 2008

  When composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and writer John Weidman look at assassins, their vision is wayward, tough, ambiguous, sympathetic and... More >>

• Rose

  published July 10, 2008

  Playwright Martin Sherman (Bent) and actor Naomi Newman combine forces to tell the tale of Rose, born in an obscure shtetl near Chernobyl.... More >>

• American Tales

  published July 3, 2008

  For these one-act musicals, writer-adapter Ken Stone and composer Jan Powell turn to great names in American literature: Mark Twain's rollicking... More >>