Email Author Steven Mikulan

Awards

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "Rage Against the Sex Machine"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "Tet Offensive"

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1998 Stories by Steven Mikulan

• Day of a Locust

  published December 3, 1998

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• The Kid From Brooklyn

  published November 19, 1998

  Peter J. Nieves got a lot of admiring comments around the Weekly when his expressionist play The Toilet opened at the Complex this... More >>

• Buried Children

  published November 5, 1998

  "What happened was this: . . ."These words begin many a scene in Texarkana Waltz, Louis Broome's charming, disarming play about family... More >>

• Nobel Savage

  published October 29, 1998

  Somewhere in Mark Medoff's new play, Gila, a character mentions that a million chimpanzees were killed in laboratories during the search for a... More >>

• The Body Politic

  published October 8, 1998

  Let's face it, most Americans would have been mortified to learn that their president had had a bowel movement in the White House, let alone... More >>

• Spying on Justice

  published October 1, 1998

  "Excuse me, but how do you spell deceased?" I don’t often get asked this by strangers in a public place, but then, Room 1050 o... More >>

• Hop Dreams

  published September 24, 1998

  The rarefied world of the drug addict, like that of the thief, gambler or wartime soldier, is a professional existence whose peculiar realities... More >>

• Eddie the Confessor

  published September 17, 1998

  A pudgy, big-eyed comedian with a wayward mouth glides onto the stage, looking for all the world like a younger Ozzy Osbourne, although what... More >>

• The Disquieting

  published September 3, 1998

  Christopher Titus comes off as one scary guy. From the moment he appears in Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding, his features made thick and primitive by... More >>

• Death Takes a Meeting

  published September 3, 1998

  The entertainment industry's narcotic dependence upon physical beauty and its denial of mortality have inflicted upon Southern California an... More >>

• A Doctor Calls

  published August 13, 1998

  Fifteen years ago Charles Marowitz staged a Los Angeles Actors Theater production of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People in which Gerald Hiken... More >>

• Night of the Long Knives

  published August 13, 1998

  It's been 20 years since the release of John Carpenter's Halloween: the film that made us reconsider the American kitchen as something more than... More >>

• Toner Poem

  published August 6, 1998

  Firing up a copy machine may not inspire the atavistic awe of harnessing nature that comes from turning on a water tap, but we'd be fools to... More >>

• My Own Private Nuremberg

  published July 2, 1998

  Guilt, even more than misery, loves company, which may explain why we often lose sight of the separate sources of collective evil. (The old... More >>

• The Prisoner of El Centro Avenue

  published June 25, 1998

  Off the stage, Tanner has comfortably embraced the mother he had once wished dead. Sally Tanner, who changed her own name at the same time her son... More >>

• The Prisoner of El Centro Avenue

  published June 25, 1998

  It's 8:30 on a warm evening in May 1997, and a reading of Justin Tanner's new comedy, Coyote Woman, has just ended at the Cast Theater. The play,... More >>

• Mr. Booth Goes to Washington

  published June 18, 1998

  It might be said that John Wilkes Booth was America's first political actor: Long before Paul Robeson, Jane Fonda and Warren Beatty - or, for that... More >>

• Fetal Positions

  published June 4, 1998

  THE WATER CHILDREN By WENDY MacLEOD At the MATRIX THEATER 7657 Melrose Ave. Through July 13 ... More >>

• Bet Noir

  published May 7, 1998

  Gambling, at least as it exists in literature, is not just some juicy existential trope; it's a veritable watermelon of a metaphor. The gambler... More >>

• A Clockwork L'Orange

  published April 30, 1998

  GREAT MEN OF SCIENCE Nos. 21 & 22By GLEN BERGER At CIRCLE X THEATER CO. The Lost Studio Theater 130 S. La Brea Ave. Through April... More >>

• Gambling on Disaster

  published April 23, 1998

  If a young Berkeley design firm has its way, a certain popular film combining romance, saltwater and tragic destiny will be expressed in stone... More >>

• Watch on the Rhone

  published March 26, 1998

  There's a moment in Gertrude Stein's play about a French town during the German Occupation when one character advises another to "just be natural... More >>

• The Importance of Being Iconoclastic

  published March 12, 1998

  ''The further West one comes," Oscar Wilde wrote of his 1882 visit to the United States, "the more there is to like." The city he liked most was... More >>

• Soap Box Derby

  published March 12, 1998

  BURNING BLUE By DMW GREER At the COURT THEATER 722 N. La Cienega Blvd. Through April... More >>

• Divided We Stand

  published February 26, 1998

  Although the American century arrived with the myth of its melting pot, today we live in a culture riven by identity politics and their dissonant... More >>