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2007 Stories by DAVE BARTON

• The Best and Worst of 2007

  published December 27, 2007

  BEST (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER): • Cal State Fullerton's production of Brecht's anti-war Mother Courage and Her... More >>

• Wanted, Dead or Alive

  published December 6, 2007

  When you think "Wyatt Earp," what comesto mind? Depending on your age, it's either the historic gunfight at the O.K. Corral, a... More >>

• Bitch-slapped!

  published November 15, 2007

  Neil Labute’s The Shape of Things is brutally good More >>

• Unpatronizing

  published November 8, 2007

  CSUF resurrects Rosencrantz & Guildenstern More >>

• The Bitch of Living

  published November 1, 2007

  Not the musical, but Spring Awakening isn’t half bad More >>

• The Altogether Ooky

  published October 25, 2007

  Pageant of the Monsters More >>

• Mary Don't You Weep

  published October 18, 2007

  Salvation in Rock Harbor's Magdalene More >>

• Performance Assassination

  published October 11, 2007

  Cal Rep Shoots Itself in the Foot with Sondheim’s Best Musical Ever More >>

• The Mother of All Wars

  published October 11, 2007

  Cal State Fullerton becomes relevant with a Brecht classic More >>

• True Lies

  published September 27, 2007

  As Shipwrecked! shows, playwright Donald Marguulies thinks fabulists can be fabulous More >>

• Ingmar Bergman Rolls in His Grave

  published September 27, 2007

  And Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music put him there More >>

• No More @#&%ing Abba!

  published August 16, 2007

  Okay, maybe a little more, in OCPAC’s Mamma Mia! More >>

• Spacy Invaders

  published August 9, 2007

  Earthlings Beware! needs more snark More >>

• Excuse Me, but Is That Your Fist Up My Ass?

  published July 26, 2007

  It’s worth a trip down the I-5 to watch the fur fly on Avenue Q More >>

• Baby, That's Rock & Roll

  published July 19, 2007

  Where theres Smokey Joes Cafe, theres always some fiery performances More >>

• OCC Goes Greek

  published July 5, 2007

  This campus production of Amphitryon 38 is an ambitious diversion, but hardly an instant... More >>

• White Trash, Dark Side

  published June 14, 2007

  Amy Louise Sebelius warns us all about the quick and easy path More >>

• Playing Up the Season

  published June 7, 2007

  Summer shows this critic would consider shelling out his own cash for . . . if he werent getting in for free... More >>

• They Walk the Line

  published May 10, 2007

  UCI professors Bryan Reynolds and Robert Cohen talk about Transversal Theater, The Sopranos More >>

• System Error

  published May 3, 2007

  Wonderlands alleged humor goes way off track More >>

• We'll Always Have Paris . . .

  published April 26, 2007

  . . . Well, this Thursday and Saturday at UCI, anyway More >>

• Missing, in Action

  published April 12, 2007

  A Wandering Boy is reflected in those he left behind More >>

• We Don't Give a Damn

  published March 29, 2007

  This comedy about the making of Gone With the Wind isnt breezy enough More >>

• Playing With the Truth

  published March 22, 2007

  A Piano Teacher gives a lesson in lies More >>

• Snapshot Poetics

  published March 8, 2007

  Polaroid Stories More >>