Email Author Robrt L. Pela

2007 Stories by Robrt L. Pela

• Happy Jew Year

  published December 27, 2007

  What do you do while you’re waiting for your hit stage play to be adapted into a feature film starring Henry Winkler and Carrie Fisher?... More >>

• Taylore Mahogany Scott

  published December 20, 2007

  She’s got the lead in Black Theatre Troupe’s production of Tony Kushner’s Caroline, or Change, but actress Taylore Mahogany... More >>

• Sweet Caroline

  published December 20, 2007

  If there’s a criticism to be leveled at Black Theatre Troupe for presenting Tony Kushner’s Caroline, or Change, it’s that... More >>

• Reviews and Previews of What's Running Now

  published December 20, 2007

  Anything Goes: Not to be confused with the super-cheesy '70s game show of the same name (Remember? Pie fights and challenge... More >>

• Trite Christmas

  published December 13, 2007

  I've made a career out of carping about what an unsightly city we live in, and bitching about our hellish, nine-month-long summers has become my... More >>

• Hail César

  published December 13, 2007

  Admit it: You hear the name “César Chávez” and your mind goes straight to farm-worker strikes and cheesy one-liners... More >>

• Kerry McCue

  published December 6, 2007

  She's no princess, but Nearly Naked favorite Kerry McCue (starring this week and next in that company's Metamorphoses) is as close to... More >>

• Greek Tragedy

  published December 6, 2007

  I'd been looking forward to Nearly Naked Theatre's production of Metamorphoses ever since they announced it as part of their lineup two... More >>

• Reviews and Previews of What's Running Now

  published December 6, 2007

  Seussical: This cheerful tuner based on the much-loved books of Dr. Seuss screams to be seen by — dare we say it?... More >>

• Mural, Mural on the Wall

  published November 29, 2007

  When they painted over the Rose Johnson mural outside Paisley Violin, I was bereft. I doubted I'd find an outdoor mural I liked as much; I'm a... More >>

• Kitsch and Tell

  published November 29, 2007

  Known far and wide for his coffee-table travel books (and privately for being something of a pack rat; his Silver Lake, California, home is... More >>

• Kitsch and Tell

  published November 29, 2007

  Known far and wide for his coffee-table travel books (and privately for being something of a pack rat; his Silver Lake, California, home is... More >>

• The Color of Money

  published November 29, 2007

  His name will be forever modified by the phrase “the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Angels in America,” which certainly... More >>

• Wet Dream

  published November 22, 2007

  One might assume that a play involving two people who awaken in a strange mountaintop house surrounded by water and wearing someone else’s... More >>

• Never on Sunday

  published November 22, 2007

  As a kid, I dreaded Sundays. Sunday meant also-ran cartoons (all the crappy animated shows that had failed the previous season seemed to end up on... More >>

• Theater Scene

  published November 22, 2007

  Dog Sees God: Subtitled Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, this irreverent, unsanctioned spoof of the Peanuts... More >>

• Let's Hear It for the Boyz

  published November 22, 2007

  Altar Boyz is musical theater for people who don't really like musical theater, although Phoenix Theatre's excellent production, currently... More >>

• You May Already Have Been a Wiener

  published November 15, 2007

  I whine a lot about what a teardown town Phoenix is, about how buildings, no matter their significance, get knocked over all the time, taking with... More >>

• Baby It's True

  published November 15, 2007

  There are those of us who will do almost anything to hear someone sing “Alfie,” arguably the most famous and most-often-recorded of Burt... More >>

• Baby It’s True

  published November 15, 2007

  There are those of us who will do almost anything to hear someone sing “Alfie,” arguably the most famous and most-often-recorded of Burt... More >>

• Fair Game

  published November 8, 2007

  Phillip Fazio, a youngish local stage director and artist in residence at Phoenix Theatre, e-mailed me recently to tell me, in effect, it isn't... More >>

• Phillip Fazio

  published November 8, 2007

  "Two Ladies," indeed! Cabaret director Phillip Fazio apparently has a thing for impersonating the fairer sex. Here, the former child actor... More >>

• Theater Scene

  published November 8, 2007

  Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical: Artists Theatre Project launches its fifth season with a reprise of the company's popular... More >>

• Well Hung

  published October 25, 2007

  One takes a mighty risk when one attempts Arthur Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, a... More >>

• Mike Traylor

  published October 25, 2007

  He loves his baby sister and the Marx Brothers, but actor-director Mike Traylor — who's appearing this week in iTheatre Collaborative's ... More >>