Email Author Pauline Adamek

2012 Stories by Pauline Adamek

• Down Around Brown Town

  published December 20, 2012

  One good thing about this exuberant jukebox song-and-modern-dance tribute to the legendary soul singer is that nobody tries to "do" James Brown.... More >>

• A Down & Dirty Christmas

  published December 6, 2012

  Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre doesn't always present Grand Guignol and horror fare; it also serves up kids shows (currently playing on Sundays... More >>

• The Santaland Diaries

  published November 29, 2012

  The season brings with it enough Christmas- and holiday-themed fare to set your teeth on edge from sugar overload. Fortunately for the cynics... More >>

• Terminator Too: Judgement Play

  published November 22, 2012

  Some of the folks involved with the long-running Point Break Live! have regrouped to present another live spoof of a popular movie, this... More >>

• Their Eyes Saw Rain

  published November 15, 2012

  Playwright West Liang also stars in his astonishingly intense ensemble drama, set in a fictitious small country town. The specter of tragedy hangs... More >>

• Kong: A Goddamn Thirty-Foot Gorilla

  published November 1, 2012

  Adam Hahn's spoofy homage to King Kong, the 1933 creature feature about a colossal gorilla that is captured and then runs amok in New York... More >>

• Year of the Rabbit

  published September 27, 2012

  Watching Keliher Walsh's multifaceted mini-saga about war feels like peering through a kaleidoscope at tiny, glittering particles that shift and... More >>

• The Para Abnormals

  published September 6, 2012

  A trio of paranormal investigators has several close encounters with menacing spirits in Thomas J. Misuraca's comedy thriller, now playing at... More >>

• My Romantic History

  published July 5, 2012

  Glaswegian playwright D.C. Jackson's uproarious and award-winning comedy (it gained a Scotsman Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival... More >>

• Compleat Female Stage Beauty

  published June 14, 2012

  In 1661, King Charles II permitted women to perform as actresses on British stages and decreed that males were no longer allowed to assume those... More >>

• Beautified

  published May 31, 2012

  Beautified, Tony Abatemarco's simply beautiful dramedy, is both a love letter to his brother, the play's subject, and a poignant tribute to... More >>

• The Last Day

  published May 3, 2012

  Inspired by her father's crucial but clandestine involvement in the U.S.' evacuation of Saigon as it was taken over by the Viet Cong (signaling... More >>

• The Bungler

  published April 12, 2012

  Employing playful and inventive staging, director Julia Rodriguez-Elliott maximizes the Italian commedia dell'arte roots of 17th-century French... More >>

• The Color Purple

  published March 15, 2012

  This dazzling and buoyant musical (on Broadway from 2005-08), based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize–winning saga, charts an oppressed... More >>

• Days of Wine and RosesWine

  published January 19, 2012

  J.P. Miller's 1958 teleplay (later a play and then a feature film) was groundbreaking in its dramatization of the problems of alcoholism. It was... More >>