Email Author Max Sparber

2001 Stories by Max Sparber

• Silly Pop Songs

  published December 19, 2001

  Yet another round of Abba retreads, this time sans plot. More >>

• Kiss Me, Son of God

  published December 12, 2001

  Sock-Puppet Crèches, Late-Night Crank Calls, Circus Freaks, and Heidi Arneson. More >>

• The Year in Theater

  published December 5, 2001

  Curtain Calls and Catcalls for the Cities' Stages. More >>

• Black As Cole

  published December 5, 2001

  The Truly Uplifting Comedy Story of 'Talk Radio' Star Alex Cole. More >>

• Ho Ho Hum

  published November 28, 2001

  Brave New Workshop Scrimps on the Gift of Laughter; Words Fail the Cheap Theatre. More >>

• Jay and Silent Yobs Strike Back

  published November 21, 2001

  Ricky Jay Collects Buried Tales of Hunger Artists and Crucifix Crooners. More >>

• Torn Between Two Lovers

  published November 21, 2001

  What Do You Get When You Combine a Sailor, a Mortician, and a Pregnant Teen? More >>

• Inside The C.I.A.

  published November 14, 2001

  Trying to Crack the Secret of Staging Your Own Show? Talk to the Center for Independent Artists. More >>

• Sister Christian

  published November 14, 2001

  Jesus in High Heels and Nuns With Gay Habits More >>

• No Man Is An Island

  published November 7, 2001

  Theater Mu Presents One Nisei's Hawaiian Life; Jerungdu Dress Up Like the Ramones More >>

• Projectile Criticism

  published October 31, 2001

  Assuring Theatrical Quality Through a Well-Armed Director. More >>

• Into the Woods

  published October 31, 2001

  Looking for theater that's trippier than swapping psychoactive spit with a frog? Well, here it is. More >>

• Misery the Scrivener

  published October 24, 2001

  Writers face off in Collected Stories; a musical composer makes unmerry in Merrily We Roll Along. More >>

• Rinky Dink

  published October 17, 2001

  A dopey plot sinks Theatre Latté Da's roller-skating musical. More >>

• Happily Ever After

  published October 10, 2001

  Onetime Mardi Gras queen and current avant-garde playwright Lisa D'Amour looks for the sinister side of our fairy tales. More >>

• Angry Ex Kills Hubby's Kids, New Beau

  published October 10, 2001

  Medea Bali gives a kecak kick to Euripides' shtick. More >>

• The Wrath of Khan

  published October 3, 2001

  Jeune Lune turns Marco Polo into a carnival sideshow; Frank Theatre's tyrannical Arturo Ui is meaner than a Mongol horde. More >>

• Pass the Roach

  published September 26, 2001

  A downtown cockroach and a nihilistic alley cat light up the gutters in the Theater Gallery's Archy and Mehitabel. More >>

• The Remains of the Day

  published September 19, 2001

  Buffy Sedlachek's Tamarack combs a crime scene for clues into human nature. More >>

• That's Incredible

  published September 12, 2001

  A production of the soldier's story Streamers looks for the nobler side of Vietnam. More >>

• Dog Day Afternoon

  published August 29, 2001

  Outward Spiral's latest comedy, Dog Opera, holds its audience hostage for nearly three hours. More >>

• Oh Devil, You God

  published August 22, 2001

  Mary Worth stages a triumph of evil with Clive Barker's The History of the Devil. More >>

• French Roast

  published August 15, 2001

  Twenty-nine songs by Jacques Brel add up to a galling amount of Gallicism. More >>

• "Don't Ever Say (EXPLETIVE DELETED) Onstage Again!"

  published August 8, 2001

  An anecdotal history of theatrical disasters PLUS: The Minnesota Fringe Festival. It's big. It's scary. It's back. More >>

• The Clap

  published August 1, 2001

  The Guthrie's Amadeus reveals Minnesota's weakness for the unwarranted ovation. More >>