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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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2000 Stories by JOEL BEERS

• Huh?!

  published July 20, 2000

  Call it Überdirection. That's what director Scott Feldsher's mounting of August Strindberg's 1907 nightmare of a play The Ghost... More >>

• Huh?!

  published July 20, 2000

  Call it Überdirection. That's what director Scott Feldsher's mounting of August Strindberg's 1907 nightmare of a play The Ghost... More >>

• Huh?!

  published July 20, 2000

  Call it Überdirection. That's what director Scott Feldsher's mounting of August Strindberg's 1907 nightmare of a play The Ghost... More >>

• Huh?!

  published July 20, 2000

  Call it Überdirection. That's what director Scott Feldsher's mounting of August Strindberg's 1907 nightmare of a play The Ghost... More >>

• Huh?!

  published July 20, 2000

  Call it Überdirection. That's what director Scott Feldsher's mounting of August Strindberg's 1907 nightmare of a play The... More >>

• Twin Peeks

  published July 6, 2000

  If you're one of those god-fearin', flag-wavin', death-penalty advocatin', abortion-is-murderin', multiculturalism-hatin',... More >>

• Not so Accidentally Brilliant

  published June 29, 2000

  It's a drag that the main character in Steven Ludwig's new play, Accidental Dancers, is a gay man buried as deeply in the closet as your... More >>

• Summer School

  published June 15, 2000

  Musical revues aren't complicated. You take a composer or singer—say, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, or Harry Chapin—you... More >>

• Turn out the Lights

  published June 15, 2000

  This is the end, my friend More >>

• Exuent

  published June 8, 2000

  Photo by Johan VogelLet's say Gary Christensen and Pat Terry couldn't abide a Faustian bargain. For 13 years, the couple ran Artistic... More >>

• Jesus and Cruella DeVil

  published June 8, 2000

  Maybe it was Jesus who first popularized the ridiculous notion that the poor and oppressed are better than everybody else. From that nauseating... More >>

• Midsummer Nights

  published June 1, 2000

  And how come nobody ever calls us impishly cute? More >>

• The Anti-Road-Trip Play

  published May 25, 2000

  Our daily lives consist of moving from here to there and back again day after day after day. Our greatest literary works are about great... More >>

• Necessary Animals?

  published May 18, 2000

  The Kentucky Cycle kicks much theatrical butt More >>

• Somewhere Off Highway 60 in Arizona

  published May 11, 2000

  Three months and nearly 7,000 miles bring me to the end of a cross-country trip from Fullerton to Maine to New Orleans and back again. It's... More >>

• Heh-heh. She Said, Pussy

  published May 11, 2000

  I'm not difficult to please. Fart jokes, dick jokes, and any and all references to female genitalia usually have me in stitches. Hell, just say... More >>

• One Cozy Bed

  published May 4, 2000

  Like any Irish play worth its hops and starch, Bernard Farrell's comedy Kevin's Bedhas all the necessary ingredients: colorful... More >>

• Theater for Those Who Love To Hate Theater

  published April 27, 2000

  Make no mistake: the very things the theater-hating antagonist in David Hare's play Amy's View most despises about theater are the very... More >>

• Socks Talks

  published April 20, 2000

  Things are finally looking very up for Alternative Repertory Theatre (ART). Following its move last year to downtown Santa Ana, attendance... More >>

• Feed Your Head

  published April 20, 2000

  Watching ron campbell play Iago or Richard II or any of the other colorful lunatics he is so adept at portraying is always a joy. Watching him... More >>

• He Gets on Your Nerves

  published April 13, 2000

  GTC tries to stay close to Sam Becketts twisted vision More >>

• Reality Sucks

  published April 6, 2000

  You don't usually expect samuel beckett from a group of amateur playwrights, but you're always pleased to be proved wrong. Of the 14 plays in... More >>

• Hideous Gifts, Ugly Talents

  published March 30, 2000

  Santa Ana College is producing Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?That's jaw-dropping on two fronts. First, Albee is... More >>

• Whom Shall We Whack?

  published March 23, 2000

  To be young, gifted and Irish is to inherit one of theater's most prized reputations. Wilde, Shaw, Beckett, O'Casey, Synge, Friel, Yeats and,... More >>

• How About a Little Respect?

  published March 16, 2000

  Grove Theater Center battles for truth, honor and faceless lips More >>