Email Author Paul Birchall

2011 Stories by Paul Birchall

• Stations: A Los Angeles Holiday Story

  published December 22, 2011

  In this modern dance narrative Stations, director Lili Fuller offers us a holly jolly, hip-hoppy Christmas. And one thing's for sure: Your... More >>

• Atomic Holiday Free Fall

  published December 8, 2011

  It's Christmas and that means 'tis the season … well, for aliens to land in Las Vegas in 1966 and attempt to infiltrate the Rat Pack so... More >>

• Pick of the Week: Way to Heaven (Himmelweg)

  published October 13, 2011

  Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga's powerful psychological horror show takes as its inspiration Theresienstadt, a Nazi concentration camp that... More >>

• The Cask of Amontillado

  published September 22, 2011

  Heady helpings of malice and spite flow like flagons of the fine sherry mentioned in the title of this classic Edgar Allen Poe vignette.... More >>

• Way to Heaven

  published September 22, 2011

  Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga's powerful psychological horror show takes as its inspiration Theresienstadt, a Nazi concentration camp that was... More >>

• 4.48 Psychosis

  published August 18, 2011

  Playwright Sarah Kane's kaleidoscopic drama premiered shortly after her suicide in 2000. At the time, one British theater critic called the work a... More >>

• Mad Women

  published May 12, 2011

  Known for his mastery of the intimate, character-driven performance, John Fleck does not disappoint in this offbeat, yet strangely heartfelt solo... More >>

• Juno and the Paycock

  published April 28, 2011

  In director Allan Miller's emotionally deft production of Sean O'Casey's powerful Irish drama, "The whole world's in a state of total chassis."... More >>

• The Cripple of Inishmaan

  published April 14, 2011

  If you think Los Angeles is an unkind city, you should try Inishmaan, the seemingly quaint and picturesque Irish village setting of Martin... More >>

• Broken Glass

  published March 24, 2011

  Arthur Miller's searing 1995 drama ostensibly deals with the theme of Jewish assimilation and the price of ignoring evil in the rest of the world.... More >>

• The Woodpecker

  published March 10, 2011

  In playwright Samuel Brett Williams' angry drama of despair, we are introduced to a coterie of tragic characters who virtually line up to debase... More >>

• Chinese Coffee

  published January 13, 2011

  Playwright Ira Lewis' 1992 drama, making its West Coast debut, hails from an era of manly Manhattan-centric plays in which a pair of gentlemen... More >>