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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2010 Stories by JOEL BEERS

• 'Steel Dragnolias': Crossover Hit?

  published May 20, 2010

  If you don’t know that Steel Magnolias, the play or film, is required gay viewing, don’t sweat it: It just means you’re... More >>

• 'Nine' Is Not a Magic Number

  published May 6, 2010

  The Civil War. Marijuana propaganda. Steven King’s Carrie. Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. Great moments in American... More >>

• 'The Manchurian Candidate' Is a House of Cards

  published April 29, 2010

  Last week, in an interview posted on the terrifically lefty political website Truthdig.com, Noam Chomsky,... More >>

• 'Doctor Cerberus' and Mr. Aguirre-Sacasa

  published April 22, 2010

  If you’ve ever dreamed of making a living at what you love to do, then you might find it very easy to envy Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa—and... More >>

• Julia Cho's 'The Language Archive' Speaks Volumes About Love

  published April 8, 2010

  From Shakespeare inventing new words for it to Beckett using it to demonstrate its ineffectiveness in communicating truth, language has long... More >>

• 'Buried Child' Is Family Not-So-Friendly

  published April 1, 2010

  Sam Shepard’s 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Buried Child, like many of the works he wrote in his prolific, brilliant middle... More >>

• Second City Peeks Behind the Orange Curtain

  published March 25, 2010

  A telling moment came early in the second act of the laugh-a-second Can You Be More Pacific?—an Orange County-specific... More >>

• Herbert Siguenza and Students on Survival

  published March 11, 2010

  After interviewing Herbert Siguenza last week at UC Irvine, one question leapt to mind: How does this guy have time to do interviews?As... More >>

• Mister Roberts

  published March 11, 2010

  The tense battle of wills between Henry Fonda’s Lt. Roberts and James Cagney’s arrogant Capt. Morton supplies the ballast in this 1955... More >>

• Howard Korder's 'Garden' Variety

  published March 4, 2010

  A look at the cast and crew bios for the upcoming In a Garden at South Coast Repertory, and it sure looks like several notable film and... More >>

• Storefront Theaters Strike Back

  published February 25, 2010

  You couldn’t find two local theater entities as different in philosophy and aesthetics than the Chance Theater and the Monkey Wrench... More >>

• SCR Knocks One Out of the Park with August Wilson's 'Fences'

  published February 4, 2010

  Very Good FencesAugust Wilson’s tale of love, regret and family reaches universal themes through an utterly... More >>

• The Mysterious Ways of 'Joshua' Don't Really Work

  published January 21, 2010

  Mysterious WaysThe supernatural power at the heart of Joshua remains too enigmatic to give the show much... More >>

• Johnna Adams' Work Is Back in OC With the Wrenching, Intimate 'Sans Merci' at Hunger Artists

  published January 14, 2010

  Back In BleakProdigal daughter Johnna Adams’ work is back on an OC stage with the wrenching, intimate Sans... More >>

• tick, tick...BOOM!

  published January 14, 2010

  There’s a lot of suffering and pain depicted on stage during any production of the super-popular musical Rent. But the fictional slings and... More >>

• Big Names on Local Stages This Year Include Sondheim, Wilson, Shepard and, of Course, Debbie

  published January 7, 2010

  A 2010 Play ListBig names on local stages this year include Sondheim, Albee, Wilson, Tolkien, Shepard, Myatt and, of course,... More >>