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Those Magic Moments -
December 27, 2007
Recollections of what made 2007 theater sing -
The Best and Worst of 2007 -
December 27, 2007
Plus, a plea for a moratorium on overproduced Shakespeare -
Retro Wishes Come True -
December 13, 2007
Santa Claus conquers martians, tramples Christmas spirit. Yay! -
Kiss and Makeup -
December 6, 2007
Clownzilla exorcises your clown demons -
Wanted, Dead or Alive -
December 6, 2007
or neither, as i married wyatt earp is comatose -
The Goulet!-o-Meter -
November 29, 2007
We rank holiday theater -
Seeing the Light -
November 22, 2007
Hank Williams: Lost Highway sets the woods on fire -
Bitch-slapped! -
November 15, 2007
Neil Labute’s The Shape of Things is brutally good -
Breath of Fire, Breath of Life -
November 8, 2007
Guilt and Revelations in Santa Ana -
Unpatronizing -
November 8, 2007
CSUF resurrects Rosencrantz & Guildenstern -
Act of Faith -
November 1, 2007
Doubt asks deep, painful questions -
The Bitch of Living -
November 1, 2007
Not the musical, but Spring Awakening isn’t half bad -
Standard Bearer -
October 25, 2007
On the eve of Doubt, Linda Gehringer riffs on her SCR acting resume -
Mary Don't You Weep -
October 18, 2007
Salvation in Rock Harbor's Magdalene
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Live Dead -
October 18, 2007
Plenty of cheers but little suspense in Maverick’s cult classic homage -
Performance Assassination -
October 11, 2007
Cal Rep Shoots Itself in the Foot with Sondheim’s Best Musical Ever -
The Mother of All Wars -
October 11, 2007
Cal State Fullerton becomes relevant with a Brecht classic -
Liar Liar -
October 4, 2007
Shipwrecked! discovers truth the old-fashioned way: it makes it up -
Ingmar Bergman Rolls in His Grave -
September 27, 2007
And Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music put him there
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True Lies -
September 27, 2007
As Shipwrecked! shows, playwright Donald Marguulies thinks fabulists can be fabulous
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Bad Habits -
September 13, 2007
Agnes of God loses its faith -
Not in Too Deep -
September 13, 2007
The shallow shores of San Diego disappoint -
Fred Effing Willard! -
September 6, 2007
And other cool theater for the fall/winter season -
Where in the World Is San Diego? -
August 30, 2007
David Greig’s script is all over the place, which makes the potential for this Rude Guerrilla production so exciting -
Days On End -
August 23, 2007
Lanford Wilson's Book could stand to lose a few pages
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Sloppy Joe -
August 23, 2007
The bottle let this early Tracy Letts play down -
No More @#&%ing Abba! -
August 16, 2007
Okay, maybe a little more, in OCPAC’s Mamma Mia! -
Sunday Best -
August 16, 2007
The Chance takes a big one with Stephen Sondheim’s smartest musical -
Spacy Invaders -
August 9, 2007
Earthlings Beware! needs more snark -
Of Dicks and Men -
August 9, 2007
The Hunger Artists whip it out with The Full Monty -
Bond, Edward Bond -
August 2, 2007
Rude Guerrilla turns its focus to the most important playwright you’ve probably never heard of -
A Raw Nerve -
July 26, 2007
Elaborately choreographed pantomime reveals a nation torn asunder -
Excuse Me, but Is That Your Fist Up My Ass? -
July 26, 2007
It’s worth a trip down the I-5 to watch the fur fly on Avenue Q -
Great Alpha Male -
July 19, 2007
The Offices David Denman finds a character to root for in Shrew -
Baby, That's Rock & Roll -
July 19, 2007
Where theres Smokey Joes Cafe, theres always some fiery performances -
OCC Goes Greek -
July 5, 2007
This campus production of Amphitryon 38 is an ambitious diversion, but hardly an instant classic -
Not Quite By the Buchner -
June 28, 2007
Jeremy Gables spin on woyzeck could be greatif there werent a giant chicken onstage -
Razzle Dazzle -
June 28, 2007
Chicago -
Busch League -
June 21, 2007
Rude Guerrilla gets its gay on with two plays by the iconic Charles Busch -
White Trash, Dark Side -
June 14, 2007
Amy Louise Sebelius warns us all about the quick and easy path -
Great Hamlet, Not So Great Hamlet -
June 14, 2007
Linklater’s performance is by far the best thing about SCR’s production -
Playing Up the Season -
June 7, 2007
Summer shows this critic would consider shelling out his own cash for . . . if he werent getting in for free already -
Out, Damned Stage! -
June 7, 2007
Got Shakespeare? Take it outside -
Licentious to Kill -
May 31, 2007
The Burlesque of Bond brings old-fashioned sexiness to a new era -
Attack of the Clowns -
May 24, 2007
Dont be afraidthese guys are funny! -
They Walk the Line -
May 10, 2007
UCI professors Bryan Reynolds and Robert Cohen talk about Transversal Theater, The Sopranos and their new play, Blue Shade -
Another Bloody Musical -
May 10, 2007
It may not have much bite, but Bat Boy definitely doesnt suck -
System Error -
May 3, 2007
Wonderlands alleged humor goes way off track -
The Play's the Thing -
May 3, 2007
Six reasons to love the Pacific Playwrights Festival -
We'll Always Have Paris . . . -
April 26, 2007
. . . Well, this Thursday and Saturday at UCI, anyway -
Living Doll -
April 19, 2007
Ibsen, via Bergman, gets a treatment thats too lively -
Missing, in Action -
April 12, 2007
A Wandering Boy is reflected in those he left behind
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Rhymes With "Voice" -
April 5, 2007
How much do you really know about Dr. Seuss? -
Home at Last -
April 5, 2007
With a play about Wandering, Julie Marie Myatt finally puts down roots -
We Don't Give a Damn -
March 29, 2007
This comedy about the making of Gone With the Wind isnt breezy enough -
Playing With the Truth -
March 22, 2007
A Piano Teacher gives a lesson in lies -
Urine For a Treat -
March 22, 2007
This comedy musical wont piss you off -
A Boot Stamping on Your Face -
March 15, 2007
The Actor's Gang Presents 1984
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Powerfully Horrific -
March 15, 2007
Mercury Fur is a long, painfully rewarding vision
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Snapshot Poetics -
March 8, 2007
Polaroid Stories should be a quick tell, not a drawn-out conclusion -
Mean Girls -
March 8, 2007
In Sexpectations, the truth hurts -
'. . . Almost Utopian' -
March 1, 2007
Mercury Furis a terrifying glimpse into the possible future -
Battle of the Sexes -
March 1, 2007
I Can Live With That -
Polar (Terribly Sorry) Opposites -
February 22, 2007
The Ice-Breakermakes its main characters quite obvious
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Successful Obsessive Compulsive -
February 22, 2007
Inventing Van Gogh and those in his shadow -
Why Do You Do -
February 15, 2007
No answers, but Life is a Dream beautifully questions our motives -
Dreamwork -
February 8, 2007
Pulitzer-winning playwright Nilo Cruzs 17th century modern translation -
Blind Love -
February 1, 2007
Equus is still not your everyday horse show -
Broad and Shallow -
January 25, 2007
Catch Me If You Can wallows in cheap slapstickery -
Too Much Noise -
January 25, 2007
Noises Off! gets lost in the sound of its own voice -
Teamwork -
January 18, 2007
How and why the Smothers Brothers became the last great comedy duo -
Sty Life -
January 18, 2007
South Coast Repertory plays in the mud with Pig Farm -
Personality Crisis -
January 11, 2007
The characters in To Forgive, Divine dont know who they are -
Happiness is a Warm Crock -
January 11, 2007
Family values renewed cant save Richard Dressers latest production -
Scary Shit -
January 4, 2007
Our sick world frightens Greg Kotis, so he writes impossibly funny plays -
Ecce Homo -
January 4, 2007
Tim Miller: Behold the fag! -
Two Left Hooves -
January 4, 2007
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