Email Author JOEL BEERS

Awards

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 1, 2010

  "Family Not-So-Friendly"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 30, 2010

  "Man Loves Goat"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 11, 2010

  "Teen Cheerleader Orgy Porn"

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1999 Stories by JOEL BEERS

• Something You Cant Get at Home

  published July 8, 1999

  Jean Genet and (one hopes) the death of "entertaining theater" More >>

• An Indelicate Balance

  published July 1, 1999

  Sam Shepards True West is the Great Southern Californian Play More >>

• The Importance of Loving Ernest

  published June 24, 1999

  An evening with the Hemingways More >>

• Finding the Devil Hole

  published June 17, 1999

  Performance artist John Fleck explores Orange County More >>

• Language Are Dead

  published June 17, 1999

  Dicks, blondes and a barrel of cliches More >>

• The Kids Are All Right

  published June 10, 1999

  But oh, so very boring More >>

• Approaching His Limits

  published June 3, 1999

  Numbers, failure and Josh Kornbluth More >>

• Getting Their Say

  published May 27, 1999

  But do we want to really hear it? More >>

• Black and Brown and Blue All Over

  published May 20, 1999

  A Soldier's Play is too at-ease, Two Sisters sparkles More >>

• The Bottle and the Void

  published May 13, 1999

  Real men and real women light it up in Laguna More >>

• Ire Land

  published May 13, 1999

  Saint Patrick's Day among the Irish More >>

• Cruz Control

  published May 6, 1999

  Neither Left nor Right but provocative, Cuban dramatist Nilo Cruz eschews ideology More >>

• More Bitter Than Sweet

  published April 29, 1999

  Getting it up for Swifty can be hard More >>

• The Waxman Cometh

  published April 22, 1999

  Are artists who make lots and lots of money soulless assholes? More >>

• You Can't Take This With You

  published April 15, 1999

  Populist politics equals pure poop in this 1938 comedy More >>

• But Where Are the Giants?

  published April 1, 1999

  SCR's Play Strindberg is almost brilliant More >>

• Heal Thyself?

  published March 25, 1999

  Therapy and cruelty in the days before drive-through pharmacies More >>

• A Royal Mess

  published March 18, 1999

  Knights and princes on local stages More >>

• The Unbearable Lightness of Pippin

  published March 11, 1999

  How can a musical so thin carry so much weight? More >>

• We're So Happy, We Could Scream!

  published March 4, 1999

  The third annual OC Weekly Theater Awards More >>

• Frankly Speaking

  published February 25, 1999

  Everyone's favorite 8-foot monster prowls the stage More >>

• White-Trash Bash

  published February 18, 1999

  Coward gets the brave updating he needed More >>

• White-Trash Bash

  published February 11, 1999

  Coward gets the brave updating he needed More >>

• Gertrude Stein's 'There' Is Here

  published January 28, 1999

  The dean of Orange County's small theaters graduates More >>

• Bittersweet Symphony

  published January 21, 1999

  Seen any good Holocaust plays lately? More >>