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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2006 Stories by Steven Mikulan

• Uncertain Curtains

  published December 28, 2006

  Believe it or not, most theater critics take their seats before curtain desperately wanting to enjoy what they are about to see. As a species,... More >>

• Running With Scissorhands

  published December 21, 2006

  A Gothic castle belonging to a wild-haired genius with a dark penchant for playing God towers at the end of a suburban street of tract houses.... More >>

• Trip to Doubtful

  published December 14, 2006

  Annie Gayle is young, beautiful, married with two children — and losing her mind. Lest we doubt that anyone as vivacious as Annie can... More >>

• Loose Prose

  published December 14, 2006

  Years ago, I must have written an article about hangovers, because ever since then I’ve gotten steady invitations from the... More >>

• O, Mein Mama

  published November 30, 2006

  There is one soaring moment in Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking. It comes at the very top of her solo show but is gone before we... More >>

• WISHFUL DRINKING

  published November 23, 2006

  WISHFUL DRINKING Those who were beguiled by Carrie Fisher’s actress-interrupted memoir, Postcards From the Edge, will find themselves... More >>

• Italian Hat Trick

  published November 16, 2006

  When it isn’t being thrown into panicky chiaroscuro for a few moments, The Light in the Piazza is a love story illuminated by a... More >>

• An Asphalt Jungle

  published November 16, 2006

  IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT in the new Hollywood, and terrazzo sidewalks are bearing the kind of foot traffic they haven’t seen in... More >>

• The Storyteller

  published November 9, 2006

  Life after government has been good to former Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese, who’s kept busy as a spokesman for the Heritage... More >>

• Everybody, Roll Up Your Sleeves

  published November 2, 2006

  It looked like Phil Angelides finally caught a break Friday in his campaign for governor when he received a genuinely enthusiastic reception... More >>

• Reincarnation of the Nerds

  published November 2, 2006

  If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where the playwright was born, and what his lousy... More >>

• Leaps of Faith

  published October 19, 2006

  A dark room explodes in gunfire, and we can see the shooter, who stands over two bodies, place the pistol to his own head. Suddenly, time flows... More >>

• Arrest This Woman . . . Pretty Please

  published October 12, 2006

  L.A.’s largest act of civil ?disobedience was also its ?most politeThere was a time when Maria Elena Durazo couldn’t get... More >>

• The City I Found

  published October 5, 2006

  California was no golden state for the Mikulans when we moved here in 1958. We weren’t too bad off — just another family... More >>

• Rage Against the Sex Machine

  published September 28, 2006

  A flute and violin moan somberly as bodies slowly stir in the hull of a beached rowboat; strained light drizzles upon the naked flesh of women... More >>

• The Disinvited

  published September 28, 2006

  TO A TOWN THAT PRIDES ITSELF on racial sensitivity and cultural bridge building, it was a blunder of almost farcical proportions. On... More >>

• Doubt

  published September 28, 2006

    DOUBT John Patrick Shanley’s Catholic thriller opens as Father Flynn (Chris McGarry) delivers a riveting sermon in which he proclaim... More >>

• A Small Circle of Friends

  published September 14, 2006

  Describing the parties and salons of Westside liberals has become a minor genre of satire whose tropes are the gatherings’ inescapable... More >>

• Two Hander

  published September 7, 2006

  When Robert Chesley’s one-act, Jerker, exploded on the Celebration Theatre’s stage in July 1986, AIDS was becoming a... More >>

• Some of Them Were Our Neighbors

  published August 31, 2006

  Juliette Niyrabeza, a sensitive young African living in London, believes Britain is an ideal country — the people are kind, its buses... More >>

• Stel-laaaaaa!

  published August 17, 2006

  Benicio Del Toro was telling the crowd how much Stella Adler’s class had shaped him as an actor, back when she was alive and her school... More >>

• Flat Line, Bottom Line

  published August 17, 2006

  LAST FRIDAY’S ROUND OF CONTRACT TALKS between Hospital Corporation of America and the Service Employees International Union was... More >>

• Detours

  published August 10, 2006

  There was much quoting, in the recent obituaries for crime novelist Mickey Spillane, of I, the Jury’s notorious closing lines,... More >>

• Jerker, the Tina Dance

  published August 3, 2006

  “You’re my little brother, and I’m gonna teach you how to feel good, how to feel real good. But we gotta be quiet, real... More >>

• Reality Strikes

  published August 3, 2006

  GOTH MEMOIRIST (COTTONMOUTH KISSES), fashion maven and former club kid Clint Catalyst is featuring a black flattop,... More >>