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2011 Stories by Neal Weaver

• Cinderella Christmas

  published December 29, 2011

  There's lots of magic to delight the kids — who are invited to boo the ugly stepsisters — and a live miniature horse to pull... More >>

• A Christmas Westside Story

  published December 15, 2011

  Following their long, goofy tradition of musical mash-ups, director Matt Walker and the Troubadour Theatre Company combine the songs from West... More >>

• Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie

  published November 17, 2011

  While researching the life of Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered and isolated radium, playwright Alan Alda went to... More >>

• Jerker, or the Helping Hand: A Pornographic Elegy with Redeeming Social Value and a Hymn to the Queer Men of San Francisco in Twenty Phone Calls, Many of them Dirty

  published November 10, 2011

  When Robert Chesley's ground-breaking play was first produced in 1986 at Celebration Theatre, it was roundly condemned in certain quarters. But... More >>

• Waiting for Lefty

  published September 22, 2011

  Of all the agit-prop plays of the 1930s, only this Clifford Odets work was potent enough to capture mainstream attention, launch Odets' career,... More >>

• Hyper-Chondriac

  published September 22, 2011

  In this comic solo show, writer-performer Brian Frazer examines the difference between hypochondriacs and hyper-chondriacs. The former imagine... More >>

• Jolson at the Winter Garden

  published September 8, 2011

  This nostalgic musical, written by Bill Castellino and Mike Burstyn, starring Burstyn in the title role, is a hagiographic biography of... More >>

• Raised in Captivity

  published August 25, 2011

  Though Henry David Thoreau observed, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation," the desperate characters in Nicky Silver's dark comedy are... More >>

• Twist: An American Musical

  published July 7, 2011

  This big, splashy musical, with book by William F. Brown and Tina Tippit, lyrics by Tena Clark, and music by Clark and Gary Prim, is loosely... More >>

• Bash'd! A Gay Rap Opera

  published June 30, 2011

  Since this musical, created by Canadian writers Chris Craddock and Nathan Cuckow and composer Aaron Macri, was inspired by the spike in hate... More >>

• 100 Saints You Should Know

  published June 2, 2011

  All the characters in Kate Fodor's play, now receiving its West Coast premiere, are searching for some sort of validation, though they seek it in... More >>

• Gypsy

  published May 26, 2011

  With its huge cast, multiple settings, book by Arthur Laurents, score by Jules Stein and catchy lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, this show has become a... More >>

• Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays

  published May 5, 2011

  This highly acclaimed evening of short plays by award-winning playwrights, dealing with the subject of marriage equality, was first presented as a... More >>

• The Temperamentals

  published April 21, 2011

  The term NHI was a code word used by Los Angeles police in their case files in the 1950s. It stood for NO HUMANS INVOLVED, and referred to any... More >>

• Goodbye, Louie ... Hello!

  published April 14, 2011

  The late playwright Allan Manings was blacklisted and forced to move to Canada. There, he worked on a horse farm till 1961, when he was able to... More >>

• The Next Fairy Tale

  published March 17, 2011

  Writer-composer Brian Pugach uses a fractured fairy tale to deliver a message of tolerance and acceptance. Four Fairy Godmothers assemble, under... More >>

• Love Sucks

  published March 3, 2011

  In traditional French farce, though everybody determinedly pursues sex, their efforts are constantly thwarted and conventional morality triumphs... More >>

• The Sonneteer

  published February 24, 2011

  Nick Salamone's play examines the ways in which homophobia, guilt, self-delusion and hypocrisy cause the gradual disintegration of the Cardamones,... More >>

• Macho Like Me

  published January 20, 2011

  In her solo performance, the very funny Helie Lee explores the issue of male privilege from a South Korean female perspective. (Though she was... More >>