Email Author Michael Tortorello

1996 Stories by Michael Tortorello

• The Real Me

  published December 18, 1996

  "To apply to be on The Real World, you need to show us that you are an open, honest and sincere person who's dealing... More >>

• Life Is A Joke, Old Chum.

  published November 27, 1996

  "Nothing I do means anything." --David Schwimmer as Ross Geller on Friends"They never... More >>

• To Believe or Not to Believe

  published November 13, 1996

            Tautology: n. 3.a. Logic: a compound prepositional form, all of whose instances... More >>

• Bed Politics

  published November 13, 1996

  The Bed ExperimentMargolis Brown... More >>

• Working for the Man This season, television rediscovers the proletariat.

  published November 6, 1996

            Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic... More >>

• Making Nice

  published October 30, 1996

  The SecretRed EyeDreamsJungle Theater Late... More >>

• A Dull House

  published October 23, 1996

  A Doll's HouseGuthrie TheaterA Presidential Town Hall Debate More >>

• Culture Quake

  published October 16, 1996

  Ma Rainey's Black BottomPenumbra Theatre... More >>

• Endangered Species

  published October 9, 1996

  PterodactylsFully Reciprocal Theatre... More >>

• Sex Monster

  published October 2, 1996

  Lulu, a sex tragedy15 Head: a theatre labConference of Birds More >>

• Darkness on the Edge of Town

  published September 25, 1996

  Siri HustvedtThe Enchantment of Lily DahlHenry Holt... More >>

• Family Feuds

  published September 18, 1996

  Three Tall Women Ordway Music TheatreSimpatico More >>

• Fire and Ice

  published September 11, 1996

            In the business, the sentence you are currently reading is called the lead.... More >>

• KEEP ON TRUCKIN'

  published September 4, 1996

             The truck is an Ford F-Series flatbed, 24 feet long and 7 feet wide with a gross... More >>

• A Rose is a Metarose

  published August 28, 1996

  Gertrude Stein's Photograph Walker Art Center, Red Eye, and the New Music Theater... More >>

• Imperial Bedrooms

  published August 21, 1996

  Karal Ann Marling Graceland: Going Home With Elvis Harvard University... More >>

• Quietly Riotous

  published August 14, 1996

  Philadelphia, Here I Come! and She Stoops to Conquer More >>

• Naked Chicago

  published August 7, 1996

  Sexual Perversity in Chicago Pillsbury House Theatre Espresso: A Story... More >>

• Harold S. Kahm

  published July 31, 1996

  ...has authored 28 published books, and, if he lives long enough, may finish his 29th, a work tentatively titled My First 90 Years: an... More >>

• Clicking Heels

  published July 31, 1996

  The Wizard of Oz Ordway Music... More >>

• Appealingly Absurd

  published July 10, 1996

  The Bald Soprano Chopping Block Theater... More >>

• Tales From the Melting Pot

  published June 26, 1996

             Let's briefly entertain the notion that you can judge a book by its cover.... More >>

• Endings & Beginnings

  published June 26, 1996

  The Cherry Orchard Guthrie Theater A WHITE FILAMENT arches above the... More >>

• Love Hurts

  published June 19, 1996

  Three Visitations New Music-Theater Ensemble Fool for Love More >>

• Love & Faxes

  published June 12, 1996

  Hate Mail Eye of the Storm The Hung and the Tasteless More >>