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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1999 Stories by Steven Mikulan

• Bad News

  published December 30, 1999

  Shortly before Labor Day, NASA‘s new QuikSCAT satellite made an unsettling discovery: Iceberg B10A, a Rhode Island--size behemoth, was breakin... More >>

• Altar Cocker

  published December 23, 1999

  The absence of civility is noted everywhere in American life these days, from the freeway to the... More >>

• Bloody Mama

  published November 18, 1999

  No Orchids for Miss Blandish, at the Ivy Substation, opens with a shrouded body wheeled out before a caddy of gleaming instruments and the dull... More >>

• Visitation Rites

  published November 4, 1999

  Allow me to suggest, to playwrights in search of a New Year’s resolution, that they quietly abandon the dysfunctional family as source materia... More >>

• Star Struck

  published October 21, 1999

  Barely two weeks after the Mars Climate Orbiter vanished from NASA’s radar, Tina Landau‘s play Space received its West Coast launch at the Ma... More >>

• The Challenger

  published October 14, 1999

  “In Europe a film crew works together for six weeks and becomes a family, but here people are always appearing and leaving, faces come and g... More >>

• Guy Wires

  published September 30, 1999

  FOR SOME TIME NOW, THE SOLO-PERFORMANCE genre has been dominated by the Put-Upon American -- that smarmy species of storyteller who, according to... More >>

• Babbitt, Run

  published September 16, 1999

  And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street, cash and collateral turned ashes . . . in the dust, in the... More >>

• They Lost It at the Movies

  published September 2, 1999

  Photo by Craig SchwartzFOR DAYS I HAD BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO THE premiere of The First Picture Show at the Music Center. After all, it had... More >>

• Homage to Catalina

  published July 8, 1999

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• Louder Than Words

  published June 17, 1999

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• Forever Fabulous

  published June 10, 1999

  Photo by Kevin AckermanDUSK, LOS ANGELES. A THOUSAND CARS ARE JOINING THE rush-hour conga lines of traffic fleeing downtown's office center. Soon... More >>

• They Saved Hitler's Head

  published May 13, 1999

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• High Plains Joker

  published April 29, 1999

  Photo by Debra DiPaolo"I WANT TO MAKE WESTERNS," SAYS THE INtense-looking man in the coffee bar. It's the afternoon of the Academy Awards, and in... More >>

• If the Shoe Retrofits . . .

  published April 22, 1999

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• Party Mix

  published April 8, 1999

  Photo by Craig SchwartzANY PLAY THAT'S BUILT UPON RECURRING BLACKOUT scenes spoofing an already self-parodic TV show (and whose curtain went up 25... More >>

• OedTV

  published March 25, 1999

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• The Padded Stage

  published March 11, 1999

  Photo by Paul MeliaCRAZIES ARE OFTEN ACTORS' MEATIEST ROLES. Yet this winter might well go down as the "What were they thinking?" season, a... More >>

• 200 Cigarettes and 20 Dates

  published March 4, 1999

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• The Pest Years of Our Lives

  published February 25, 1999

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• Home Girl

  published February 18, 1999

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• Bleak Houses

  published February 11, 1999

  Photo by Craig SchwartzDavid Mamet will turn 52 in November. By this age, most playwrights have pretty much exhausted what life memories... More >>

• A Night to Forget

  published January 28, 1999

  Photo by Joan MarcusThe voyage of the Titanic is one of those majestic tragedies that stir such awe and melancholy in the Western soul that... More >>

• The Last Roll Call

  published January 14, 1999

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• You've Got Hate Mail

  published January 14, 1999

  I can't speak for my colleagues, but for me 1998 was a year filled... More >>