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1999 Stories by Jim Lillie

• Everything’s Relative

  published December 23, 1999

  White Trash Family Reunion at the VFW, 7:30 p.m. Saturdays through February 19 at the VFW Post Number One, 955 Bannock Street, $39 includes... More >>

• Meat Market

  published December 23, 1999

  Decades before self-help books, therapy sessions and touchy-feely television shows complicated our understanding of relationships, playwrights... More >>

• Let the Dog Lie

  published December 23, 1999

  Sleeping Beauty -- The Panto begins as five performers clad in medieval costumes flounce through a portal in the Nomad Theatre's... More >>

• And to All a Good Night

  published December 16, 1999

  Ever since Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and his band of Claymated misfits fled the North Pole's hidebound environs, Santa's helpers have had a... More >>

• Class Warfare

  published December 9, 1999

  Veteran critic Mel Gussow's fine biography of Edward Albee reveals that most people who knew the artist as a young man had an inkling of his... More >>

• Song Sung Blue

  published December 9, 1999

  Part of the promise of an evening of Rodgers and Hammerstein favorites is that the audience will be able to enjoy the company of charismatic... More >>

• Collision Discourse

  published December 2, 1999

  Is total sincerity the key to maintaining healthy relationships, or should people bend the truth now and again to spare each other's feelings?... More >>

• Map of the World

  published December 2, 1999

  Lonely Planet, through December 11 at the Denver Civic Theatre, 721 Santa Fe Drive, 303-595-3800 More >>

• Latin Play, Boys

  published November 25, 1999

  Plays that illuminate the predicaments of entire cultural groups are inevitably propelled by richly detailed characters whose everyday struggles... More >>

• Fashion Queen

  published November 25, 1999

  From the moment she strides through the red-curtained setting that represents Diana Vreeland's Manhattan residence, Deborah Persoff exudes the... More >>

• Days of Wine and Poses

  published November 18, 1999

  Smaller in scope and more conversational in tone than last season's effort by the Denver Center Theatre Company, the Avenue Theatre's production... More >>

• Friends for Life

  published November 18, 1999

  The committee that awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1962 cited John Steinbeck for his "sympathetic humor and sociological perception" --... More >>

• Fashion Victim

  published November 11, 1999

  As the longtime fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar, where she started out writing a snobbish -- and frequently satirized -- advice... More >>

• This Crazy, Jazzy World

  published November 11, 1999

  Vowing to "revivify the vital fluids stored in the neural coconuts," a failed jazz singer and his eccentric, ivory-tickling sidekick attempt to... More >>

• Girls Talk

  published November 11, 1999

  For anyone who likes sitcom-style playlets in which characters with low self-esteem point blaming fingers at their childhood, the media, the men... More >>

• What the Devil?

  published November 4, 1999

  It's not hard to believe that the Devil has done earthly time as an erstwhile boxing promoter or even a professional critic, but did he really... More >>

• Too Earnest

  published November 4, 1999

  The meticulous staging smartly echoes Oscar Wilde's intellectual choreography, the costumes are resplendent, the setting is tastefully appointed... More >>

• Mother's Keeper

  published October 28, 1999

  A hundred years before terms like "mommy track" and "telecommuting" crept into the common parlance, German expressionist painter Paula... More >>

• Forever Young

  published October 28, 1999

  Laden with postmodern gloom and narcissism, The Fastest Clock in the Universe is an offbeat play about "human cannibals" struggling... More >>

• An Earnest Effort

  published October 21, 1999

  The dream of sustaining a repertory company dedicated to producing the classics has intrigued a host of theatrical luminaries -- and drained the... More >>

• Hung Jury

  published October 21, 1999

  As the three characters in Art discuss the worth of a painting one of them has purchased for an extravagant sum, they argue, rail... More >>

• Beauty Is

  published October 14, 1999

  His radical American cousins have reduced the grandeur of character to the smithereens of personality. His angry English countrymen have rejected... More >>

• Jesus H. Christ!

  published October 14, 1999

  In an age when a former professional wrestler (and current elected official) declares organized religion a crutch for the weak-minded (who need... More >>

• Paper Money

  published October 7, 1999

  A Depression-era board game invented to provide financially strapped folks with the chance to embark on vicarious -- and harmless -- voyages... More >>

• Motel Doom

  published October 7, 1999

  When it comes to dealing with the biblical question of who is his brother's keeper, politicians blame the other party, theologians kowtow to the... More >>