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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2005 Stories by JOEL BEERS

• 618 Words About 14 Bad Plays

  published December 22, 2005

  Briefly, the least of local theater in 2005 More >>

• Simplifying the Unsimplifiable

  published December 8, 2005

  A sadly unhuman Stalag 17 More >>

• Blake and Love

  published December 1, 2005

  How playwright Rick Batalla put two things together that might not ordinarily fit More >>

• Dreams in Transit

  published November 17, 2005

  Vanguard Theatre Ensemble closes; Insurgo moves More >>

• Hurt Me, Jesus

  published November 3, 2005

  Sacred Geometry is richly perverse More >>

• As Good As It Gets

  published October 27, 2005

  Theatre de la Jeune Lune delivers a masterful Miser More >>

• An August Man

  published October 13, 2005

  Remembering the late playwright August Wilson More >>

• Hitchcocki, Hell and Trout Fishing

  published October 6, 2005

  Ten theatrical reasons you aint going nowhere till spring More >>

• Drunken Lullabies

  published October 6, 2005

  To Bukowski, with love More >>

• Ties That Bind

  published September 22, 2005

  These Voices could be ours More >>

• Coming Up Shorts

  published September 22, 2005

  Chapman filmmakers display uncompelling competence More >>

• Just in Time

  published September 15, 2005

  South Coast Repertorys revival of Brechts Chalk Circle makes sense now More >>

• Posse Whipped

  published September 15, 2005

  Slapsticky westerns filmmaker unexpectedly finds talent back home in OC More >>

• Urine Luck

  published September 1, 2005

  Costa Mesas Urinetown is far better than last years version More >>

• Aural Alchemy

  published August 25, 2005

  Mr. Karaoke makes stars of its cast More >>

• Fat Like Me

  published August 25, 2005

  A pigs-eye view of the Happiest Place on Earth More >>

• Rickety Rocket

  published August 18, 2005

  Ken Jones tense Darkside aims for the moon, gets stuck on Earth More >>

• Strike Up the Band

  published July 28, 2005

  Revived by a whiff of irony, musical numbers are hot on stage More >>

• Fun Enough

  published July 21, 2005

  The Musical of Musicals devoted to having a good time More >>

• Warped Brilliance

  published July 21, 2005

  Blake scandalously funny More >>

• Pleasingly Pliable

  published July 14, 2005

  John Beanes submissive Shrew is revolutionary in compliance More >>

• Ungainly Bedfellows

  published June 30, 2005

  Hedwig clicks, but still needs more Jagger More >>

• Big Willie Style

  published June 9, 2005

  A summer Shakespeare smackdown More >>

• Broken Marriage

  published June 2, 2005

  Fig: R.O. More >>

• Flea-written

  published May 26, 2005

  The Great Plague has never sounded lovelier More >>