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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2000 Stories by JOEL BEERS

• More Than Zero

  published March 9, 2000

  There really isn't much of a play to Alan Ayckbourn's Communicating Doors.A hotel room in London somehow becomes a kind of wormhole,... More >>

• All This Greatness

  published March 9, 2000

  Think arthur miller, and you think of his two theatrical icons: A Death of a Salesmanand The Crucible.The immensity of his... More >>

• Please Just Shut Up

  published March 2, 2000

  Let's say you've just sat down to read the latest issue of your favorite neighborhood alternative weekly. You're into it, digging the words,... More >>

• Blame the Greeks

  published March 2, 2000

  Rarely has a play's title so aptly fit more than Sledgehammer Theatre's production of Furious Blood.The blood that runs through the... More >>

• Wherez the Noize?

  published February 24, 2000

  Michael Frayn's extraordinarily popular farce Noises Offis a lot of things, as advertisements pumping any production like to point out.... More >>

• We're So Angry

  published February 17, 2000

  Look Back in Anger's 1956 London premiere was like a cabinet filled with precious bone china crashing to the floor of your stuffy Aunt... More >>

• The 1999 Okies

  published February 17, 2000

  A new century, an old art form, a cheap trophysincerest regards More >>

• Even the Losers

  published February 10, 2000

  We are nothing if not hopelessly addicted to happy endings. Elysian Fields and heavenly cities of gold, victory snatched from the jaws of... More >>

• Not Surreal Dali

  published February 10, 2000

  As surreal theater goes, the first 15 minutes of José Rivera's new play, References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, aren't that s... More >>

• Thank You, Mr. Greenblatt

  published January 27, 2000

  The Stroop Report is a staged version of one of the darkest—and ultimately most liberating—chapters in recent human history: the... More >>

• Howard Korders Truly Terrifying Tales of America

  published January 13, 2000

  Photo by Jack GouldWhen he wasn't being an anti-semitic ass, H.L. Mencken—noted journalist, linguist and curmudgeon —usually got it... More >>