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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2012 Stories by JOEL BEERS

• The Reverend Slappy White Presents OC Weekly's Annual Holiday-Theater Preview

  published December 20, 2012

  Welcome to the 2012 OC Weekly holiday theater preview, the timing of which is weird on two fronts: Most of these shows wrap up this... More >>

• 'Little Women' the Musical?

  published November 29, 2012

  Color me embarrassed. For years, I assumed the book Little Women was not only written by the same author as Little House On the... More >>

• South Coast Rep's Bible of Life

  published November 15, 2012

  Two years ago next April, I sat in a hospital room and waited for the person who brought me into this world to depart it. Anyone who has shared... More >>

• 'Rag and Bone': The Heart of the Matter

  published November 1, 2012

  Jerry Patch, the longtime dramaturge at South Coast Repertory (he split SCR about seven years ago), once remarked that every great play, along... More >>

• 'Eurydice' Is Like Following Orpheus In Wackyland

  published October 11, 2012

  Gophers apparently attacked the early drafts of Sarah Ruhl's 2003 play, Eurydice, for there are enough holes in the script to keep... More >>

• 'Trojan Barbie,' or: Bella of Troy

  published September 27, 2012

  Fans of the cable show Sons of Anarchy (i.e., The Sopranos on motorcycles) will realize something when examining the set of... More >>

• 'The Changeling': A Jacobean Fustercluck

  published September 13, 2012

  If the mark of a good director is actors willing to follow you over the side of a cliff, then Dave Barton is one hell of a director. That's not... More >>

• Chance Theater's Staging of 'West Side Story' Highlights Anaheim's Current Woes

  published August 9, 2012

  Anyone with more than a passing interest in the Anaheim summer of 2012, with cops shooting reputed gang members and protests flaring in the... More >>

• Mysterium Theater Co.'s Holy Host

  published June 28, 2012

  The Church of the Foothills made headlines—and attracted a small group of protesters—when it approved a Los Angeles theater... More >>

• 'Jitney' Shows We're Black Like Them

  published June 7, 2012

  It's not exactly playing the race card to state an obvious fact about Orange County demographics: There ain't a whole lot of black folks in... More >>

• 'Cloud Tectonics' and More!

  published May 24, 2012

  It's not uncommon to see the name Shakespeare pop up on the schedules of many a theater during the summer. The epic scope and huge casts... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Muffin Spencer-Devlin Is the Best Lesbian, Manic-Depressive, Glass-Blowing Golfer of Them All

  published May 17, 2012

  Golf is a game of etiquette and decorum: Respect the rules. Respect the course. Respect your playing partners. But when you play a... More >>

• 'Frost/Nixon' Depicts Two Tricky Dicks

  published May 17, 2012

  This may be the first time in recorded history that the movie The Avengers and the play Frost/Nixon get double-billing in a... More >>

• 'Great Western Wanderlust' Takes the Last Train to Nowheresville

  published May 3, 2012

  There's something distinctly American about the road trip. Be it on a river (Huckleberry Finn), in a car (On the Road) or on... More >>

• South Coast Repertory's 'The Prince of Atlantis' Is Wicked Nice

  published April 19, 2012

  It's often said that every great play, in some fashion, deals with home: finding one, losing one, figuring out one's place in the world with or... More >>

• Occupy Sherwood Forest?

  published March 22, 2012

  The buzz around the Maverick Theater's production of The Legend of Robin Hood is that it's "not your grandfather's Robin Hood." And... More >>

• Lon Milo DuQuette Embarks on a Magickal Mystery Tour

  published March 8, 2012

  In his 64 years, Lon Milo DuQuette has hung out with Timothy Leary; has opened for Arlo Guthrie; has belonged to the same fraternal order once... More >>

• 'Quills' Is a Production Full of Santorum

  published March 1, 2012

  With the Internet in everyone's pockets these days, we're only a few clicks from finding out just about everything we never wanted to know... More >>

• Marc Masterson Shows He Has the Marc of Promise With 'Elemeno Pea'

  published February 16, 2012

  Marc Masterson, South Coast Repertory's artistic director, took the reins of the heralded theater in June 2011. Although he's been in the... More >>

• 'Orson's Shadow' Is Citizen Screwed-Up

  published February 2, 2012

  All warm and fuzzy Theodore Cleaver and Ozzie and Harriet nostalgia aside, the 1950s was arguably the most exciting decade in the history of... More >>

• 'Topdog/Underdog' Is Black Like Us

  published January 26, 2012

  Considering fewer than three out of every 100 Orange Countians refer to themselves as African-American, according to the 2010 U.S. Census, it's... More >>

• The 12 OC Plays to Watch in 2012

  published January 5, 2012

  If the Mayan long-form calendar is right (and, obviously, any civilization that hit its peak 1,000 years ago was right about everything . . .)... More >>