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Theater
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All That Crap -
December 21, 2006
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is great stuff, we shitteth you not -
Shadows of Things That Might Be -
December 14, 2006
Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come
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Have Yourself a Snarky Little Christmas -
December 7, 2006
A Noel Coward production that truly is A Marvelous Party
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Poorly Gaited -
December 7, 2006
Out-of-step subplots hobble Pale Horse -
Faulty Memory -
November 30, 2006
Anaheim Home Companion: Light-hearted storytelling? Or objectionable propaganda? -
Scared Straight -
November 23, 2006
The Kennedy Center's Willy Wonka -
Signifying 'D'oh!' -
November 23, 2006
Millers MacHomer -
The Cool Big Sister -
November 23, 2006
Molly Ringwalds in Sweet Charity. Remember Sixteen Candles?
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A Whore for the Ages -
November 16, 2006
Centuries-old La Celestina plays like an operetta from US Weekly -
Ask Santa for a Script -
November 16, 2006
Greetings is unseasonably bad -
A Shallow Dig -
November 9, 2006
The countys past lies deeper than Anaheim Home Companion knows -
Out of Happy Gas -
November 9, 2006
Richard Schenkkans Miss Hollywood is a miss indeed -
To Be Liked or Not to Be Liked -
November 2, 2006
Hamletmachine renders the point moot -
How Stella Got Her Groove in the First Place -
November 2, 2006
CSUF dishes up a little-known Tennessee Williams play -
Scattered Lives -
October 26, 2006
Ridiculous Fraud goes off on a tangent -
Having Your String Pulled -
October 26, 2006
The Salzburg Marionettes -
They Live -
October 12, 2006
A Night of the Living Dead adaptation with a pulse -
Don't Bogart That Reefer, My Friend -
October 12, 2006
Finally, a play about pot we can all enjoy -
Be More Funnyin German -
October 5, 2006
Bach at Leipzig is two stolid hours of thee-a-taahh -
Losing the Way -
September 28, 2006
Superheroes gab and gab at the Maverick -
People You Know -
September 21, 2006
Sonia Flew plays like real life -
Nothing Funny -
September 14, 2006
Nothing Sacred at SCR blows a cow -
Sex With Handcuffs . . . Sort Of -
September 14, 2006
Women Behind Bars -
Police and Thieves -
September 7, 2006
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels warms our miserable hearts -
Shell Games -
August 31, 2006
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels -
Paul Lynde Was Gay? -
August 31, 2006
And other questions raised by the emergence of OCs first gay/lesbian theater company -
Racism With Feeling -
August 24, 2006
Nigger Wetback Chink: Slurs with a point -
Taking Lives -
August 17, 2006
Coyote on a Fence gets all nuancey about capital punishment -
Oz Well That Ends Well -
August 17, 2006
Wicked delivers on its promise -
Sad and Worn -
August 10, 2006
Armed with a dud story, Tracers shoots itself in the foot -
Can Do -
August 10, 2006
Wayne Brady, doing it all -
Wicked -
August 10, 2006
Chances Into the Woods is best when its freaky -
The Summer Jeremy Gable Took Over OC Theater -
August 3, 2006
He writes, directs, actsand hes good -
Drop Beats, Not Bombs -
August 3, 2006
Islamic Relief's Evening of Inspiration -
Petulant Hissy Fits -
July 27, 2006
The unruthless gangland of Threepenny Opera -
Stupid Sells -
July 20, 2006
Shear Madness gets by on charm, belly laughs -
Meet Tennessee -
July 13, 2006
Rude Guerrillas five one-acts show a playwright you may not know -
Manic Panic -
July 6, 2006
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat -
Center-Staged -
July 6, 2006
Handicapping the hottest theater tickets this summer -
Carelessly Brilliant -
June 29, 2006
Len Jenkins Careless Love is a herky-jerky fun ride -
NAMBLA Love Letter -
June 15, 2006
Mysterious Skin at Rude Guerrilla -
Silly Walks -
June 8, 2006
And along came The Stinky Cheese Man -
Albom's Wonderful Life -
June 8, 2006
And terrible play -
Reality Bytes -
June 1, 2006
The Real Thing is only partly genuine -
The Call of the West -
May 25, 2006
A solid rendition of Sam Shepards funniest great play -
A Family Affair -
May 18, 2006
The Maverick Theater is trying to seduce us -
Hunger Pangs -
May 18, 2006
Vaudeville meets shrooms in Hunger Artists 10th-anniversary play -
Bibliophilia -
May 18, 2006
Edward Albee -
Beckett's Endgame -
May 11, 2006
Trifling as ever
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A Remembrance -
May 11, 2006
Laura Marchant -
Local, Only -
May 4, 2006
David Wiener is the first Orange County playwright at the Pacific Playwrights Festival -
Bringing White People Inner Peace -
May 4, 2006
South Coast Repertorys Blue Door catalyzes our guilt -
The Abyss -
April 27, 2006
Don Juan Project fills the hole
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Circle of Friends -
April 27, 2006
A rather dry Last Easter -
Sadistic Hostility -
April 27, 2006
The Cripple of Inishmaan -
Rise -
April 20, 2006
Last Easters Bryony Lavery tries to rebound from plagiarism charges -
Acting Crazy -
April 20, 2006
Hunger Artists Mary Girard isnt really insane -
See It Now -
April 13, 2006
The Mexican OC is perhaps the story for our times -
Everything Is Possible in the Studio -
April 13, 2006
The Studio takes chances, largely succeeds -
Yesterday's News -
March 30, 2006
1984: good choice, bad play -
Abusical the Musical -
March 30, 2006
Man of La Mancha abuses, loses its audience -
Hard, Sedimented Truths -
March 23, 2006
Friedkins Man From Nebraska reaches reality -
You've Been Goth-Served -
March 23, 2006
Titus Andronicus -
Save Your Money for the Soundtrack -
March 23, 2006
The King is pointless, when we have the real thing -
Great New Location, Same Old Schlock -
March 16, 2006
What wed like to see in any of Cal State Fullertons new theaters -
Always True in Its Fashion -
March 16, 2006
UCIs Kiss Me, Kate mostly hits its mark -
Thespians, Ho! -
March 16, 2006
This years OC Weekly Theater Awards winners -
Not Clear for Takeoff -
March 9, 2006
Earthbound, Golden West Colleges Medea isnt evil enough -
Life in Hell -
March 9, 2006
UC Irvines Orpheus Descending takes you down with it -
Timing Is Off -
March 9, 2006
All in the Timing lacks poise -
And the Nominees Are ... -
March 2, 2006
Presenting the 2006 Orange County Weekly Theater Award nominees -
4.48 Out of 10 -
March 2, 2006
Hunger Artists straitjacket the truth in Sarah Kanes final play -
The Nominees Are... -
March 2, 2006
Orange County Weekly Theater Awards info -
Bin There -
February 23, 2006
Seen Osama the Hero before -
Sleepwalking -
February 23, 2006
The Sleeper never rouses itself to move beyond its surroundings -
What Lies Beneath -
February 16, 2006
Hot N Throbbing pulses like an open wound -
Smart Blonde -
February 16, 2006
South Coast Rep delivers Terry Johnsons Hitchcock, spot-on -
Nothing Shocking -
February 9, 2006
Dutchman is well-acted, but stuck in the past -
Not to Be -
February 2, 2006
Maverick Theaters Hamlet is as dead as his father -
His Last Truly Warm Comedy -
February 2, 2006
Hunger Artists keep Shakespeares Twelfth Night alive
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You, Me, 50 Cent, and Everyone We Know -
January 26, 2006
If you can read this Six Degrees of Separation review, were connected -
Eight Reasons to See Twelfth Night -
January 26, 2006
Go and do thee likewise
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Get Laid Now, Ask a Vagina How -
January 26, 2006
Attention men of Earth: Vagina Monologues will get you in good with the dames -
Eternally Grinnin' -
January 19, 2006
Hedda Gabler is stuck on repeatbut its a great sequence -
An Energetic Presence -
January 19, 2006
Playwright Jeff Whitty speaks to the under-30 theater crowd -
This Week in Broken Drinking Fountains -
January 19, 2006
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -
Dread the Bed -
January 12, 2006
This drama needs more than its springs tightened -
The Love You Give -
January 12, 2006
A theatrical manifesto for the next 12 months -
4 Hands Is Easy Listening -
January 12, 2006
Finally, something great from Canada besides Labatt Blue
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