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2002 Stories by Lee Williams

• Make Some Noise

  published December 26, 2002

  Wearing shoulder-length dreadlocks, size 12 1/2 EE tap shoes and a baggy hip-hop style, Savion Glover stomp-kicked his way into tap-dancing... More >>

• The Flaming Idiots

  published December 26, 2002

  You might remember the Flaming Idiots. They're the wild men who famously slapped together a bologna sandwich with their feet on Leno. If... More >>

• Christmas in Hell

  published December 19, 2002

  Real kids are strictly forbidden, but if you're planning to attend The 2002 Slump XXXmas Show: A Jim Jones Christmas, be sure to... More >>

• Floating/Falling

  published December 19, 2002

  Like it or not, deconstruction has hit the dance world, and choreographer and DiverseWorks resident Lori Yuill's first evening-length work,... More >>

• There's No Place Like Hollywood

  published December 12, 2002

  Theatre Under the Stars has had its way with movies this year, and the results have not been pretty. From the tepid Some Like It Hot to the... More >>

• The Second Coming

  published December 12, 2002

  Where's Andrew Lloyd Webber when you need him? Even his troubled version of Mary Haley Bell's novel, Whistle Down the Wind,... More >>

• A Tale of Two Carols

  published December 5, 2002

  The gleeful magic of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is more enchanting than ever, thanks to the Alley Theatre. It's true that... More >>

• Take My Breath Away

  published November 21, 2002

  Ever since Cats turned T.S. Eliot's widow into a multimillionaire and won the poet a Tony almost 20 years after his death, it has seemed... More >>

• Something Else by the Kinks

  published November 14, 2002

  In 1969 Rolling Stone announced, "The Kinks have arrived." And so they had, selling out four nights at L.A.'s Whiskey A Go Go and breaking... More >>

• Scared Suburban

  published November 7, 2002

  After 40 years of books, films, plays and countless TV specials, it's hard to imagine there's anything new to say about the assassination of John... More >>

• Farm Aid

  published October 31, 2002

  Somewhere in that shadowy sweet space between memory and truth live the remarkable characters of Michael Healey's The Drawer Boy.... More >>

• The True-Hearted Traitor

  published October 24, 2002

  According to high school history books, the American Revolution was all about heroic brilliance. The founding fathers forged a nation out of... More >>

• String Beings

  published October 17, 2002

  They're back! Those nasty little puppets from Bobbindoctin Puppet Theatre. And as always, the creepy -- yet strangely beautiful -- beings,... More >>

• Kentucky Caver

  published October 10, 2002

  Floyd Collins, the title character of Adam Guettel's musical about a Kentucky backwoods man who winds up trapped in a cave for two weeks, was a... More >>

• The Wanker's Lament

  published October 3, 2002

  No doubt about it: Phaedra and her kids are seriously messed up. The Roman playwright Seneca established that fact some 2,000 years ago when he... More >>

• Buzzkill

  published September 26, 2002

  The opening-night hoopla for Blood Wedding started in the lobby of Stages Repertory Theatre, where it seemed everyone was ready to... More >>

• Infernal Bridegroom Productions' Jason Nodler

  published September 26, 2002

  Back in the early '90s, The Axiom was the coolest hellhole in Houston. In a best-of issue of its own, Details magazine listed the bar (in... More >>

• Disastrous Storms

  published September 19, 2002

  On September 8, 1900, the greatest natural disaster in American history hit Galveston in the form of a Category IV hurricane. The 130-mile-an-hour... More >>

• Love Under the Umbrella

  published August 15, 2002

  These days, pop psychologists like Oprah's Dr. Phil would have us think that love is a relatively simple thing. We solipsistic nincompoops... More >>

• A Dreamy Midsummer Night

  published August 8, 2002

  The wicked city of Sodom's got nothing on Venice, where big-breasted, red-lipped women stand on every street corner dressed in nothing but black... More >>

• Made in Houston

  published August 1, 2002

  A 19th-century Spanish farce hardly seems the stuff of powerhouse theater. But there must have been some hoodoo in the water over at the... More >>

• Summer of Love

  published July 25, 2002

  Imagine Cupid as a grown man with a big belly. He smokes fat brown cigars, sports black nylon old-man socks held up by garters, and wears a gold... More >>

• The Pride of Broadway

  published July 18, 2002

  Julie Taymor was an unusual choice to turn Disney's animated Lion King into a flesh-and-blood musical. The award-winning director's past... More >>

• Did She or Didn't She?

  published July 11, 2002

  Long before Stephen King bloodied up the silver screen, or John Carpenter slithered up our spines, or Hitchcock became the master of... More >>

• Another Summer Rerun

  published June 27, 2002

  Magnolia Ellis is downright bored with widowhood. She has buried two husbands and is living quite well, thank you very much, off their insurance... More >>