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2001 Stories by Joe Mader

• Just a Bowl Full of Sugar

  published February 7, 2001

  In a mid-1980s Saturday Night Live sketch, Julia Louis-Dreyfus played a college freshman home for Thanksgiving. Dressed in a tie-dyed... More >>

• Indiscretions (Les Parents Terribles)

  published January 24, 2001

  Jean Cocteau's marvelous play has a conventional construction but contains emotions and undercurrents and reverberations that are anything but.... More >>

• Culture Clash: Mission Magic Mystery Tour

  published January 17, 2001

  In this world-premiere commission for Brava, the famed Latino comedy troupe Culture Clash combines music, poetry, video, comedy, and dramatic... More >>

• Rhinoceros

  published January 17, 2001

  Ionesco's absurdist, anti-totalitarian fable about people turning into unthinking, individualistic rhinoceri has a better reputation than it... More >>

• Waiting for Godot

  published January 10, 2001

  What makes Samuel Beckett's masterpiece more than just a great example of absurdist theater is the compassion Beckett exhibits toward his two... More >>