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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2000 Stories by Steven Mikulan

• Beeves Takes Charge

  published May 11, 2000

  Who would have dreamt that the first produced play by Arthur Miller, that midcentury scion of Serious American Theater, was a comedy quivering... More >>

• The Crank Coast

  published May 11, 2000

  The driftwood sign on Larry Spring‘s Fort Bragg storefront does not beat around the bush: “Experimental Analysis of Electromagnetic Energ... More >>

• Hollywood, Straight Up

  published May 4, 2000

  When it comes to life after quitting time, Los Angeles is the city that never wakes. Ask any visitor to Hollywood, a town once synonymous with... More >>

• Heaven Scent

  published May 4, 2000

  Cologne, Tony Abatemarco‘s solo performance now running at the Tiffany Theater, has nothing to do with a certain German city known for it... More >>

• Heil! Heil! The Gang’s All Here

  published April 13, 2000

  Photo by Craig Schwartz The old admonishment against discussing politics and religion at the dinner table may have, over the years, been taken... More >>

• U.S.A. Today

  published March 30, 2000

  Photo by J.J. Hickey Ours is the era of reassuring suspicions, a time when Americans draw deep comfort from the act of being wary of... More >>

• Deep River

  published March 16, 2000

  Talk about nontraditional casting. An all-black ensemble assumes the identities of 17 mostly white, often bigoted, characters in the Falcon... More >>

• Mirror, Mirror/Liar, Liar

  published March 2, 2000

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• Death Becomes Her

  published February 17, 2000

  Photo by Dixie SheridanIt can’t be an easy thing to die onstage these days. Characters do drop dead on the boards all the time, of course, bu... More >>

• The Softer Image

  published January 27, 2000

  Avery Bly, the central character in Wendy MacLeod‘s play Sin, is one of those people to whose vertiginous standards you can never quite measur... More >>

• Soap Operetta

  published January 20, 2000

  Photo by Joan MarcusAFTER THREE HOURS OF LES MISéRABLES, you can't resist concluding, à la Marx, that French history occurs... More >>

• Enter Smiling

  published January 6, 2000

  We can put our children on wheels to see the world, but we cannot give them the kind of home that any town provided in the... More >>