Author Archives: Jennifer K. Hugus

Jennifer K. Hugus

About Jennifer K. Hugus

Jennifer K. Hugus was born at a very young age. At an even earlier age, she just knew she would one day write for the LA Beat! Having grown up in Massachusetts, France, and Denmark, she is a noted fan of Asian Cuisine. She studied ballet at the Royal Danish Ballet Theatre and acting at U.S.C. in their prestigious BFA drama program. She also makes her own jewelry out of paints and canvas when she isn’t working on writing absurdist plays and comparatively mainstream screenplays. Jennifer would like to be a KID when she grows up!

Ahmanson Theatre’s “We will Rock You” Rolls, Flows, and Almost Breaks the Mold

Posted on August 21, 2014 by Jennifer K. Hugus

Y’know that story about that guy…the guy who just doesn’t fit in, by way of actually fitting in, but nobody notices he fits in ‘cause there’s nothing he really does to stand out; and he basically just lives in a … Continue reading →

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Dixie’s Tupperware Party: Delights, Excites and Seals Air Tight!

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Jennifer K. Hugus

Think of the most badass, yet Jesus referential, yet highly irreverent, most challenging, colorful, yet highly hilarious Tupperware party your mother and grandmother were never allowed to be invited to, (that you knew of anyway) times it times ten, and … Continue reading →

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Jules Aaron Directed “The Gamester”: A Buoyant Ride Rife with Saucy Jokes and Ribald Rhymes

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Jennifer K. Hugus

Picture it—France, 1696: Boy (aka Valere) meets girl. Boy gives gambling a whirl.   The Roulette table, swiftly rendered his nemesis; Girl loses boy to a calling/addiction figuratively as old as the book of Genesis.   But ‘tis no matter; … Continue reading →

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Neil Labute’s “In a Dark Dark House” Illuminates A Most Riveting and Unusual Brotherly Drama

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Jennifer K. Hugus

Child molestation with incestuous implications – Two brothers sharing the history in kind at the hands of the self same adult—but maybe not quite…  Two male siblings:  One more at odds with the other than the other brother to most … Continue reading →

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Stan Livingston: From “How the West was Won” to “My Three Sons”–A Life of Creativity, Production, and Direction out of Childhood Stardom

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Jennifer K. Hugus

‘Scuse me, how are you with your Chipisms these days?  Are you currently up on your Chipese?  Well Stan Livingston still remembers some of his from his hazy glory days as Fred MacMurray’s youngest son Chip Douglas on “My Three … Continue reading →

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Zombie Joe’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream”: An Early Summer, Evening Fantasy

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Jennifer K. Hugus

You know the old story: Boy meets girl…other boy meets other girl.  Boy meets boy.  Girl meets girl and all are met under the guise of the most magically misconstrued love rectangle since the Peloponnesian Wars.—[Boy gets engaged to girl … Continue reading →

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Setting the Record Gay: Gay Just Got Real!

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Jennifer K. Hugus

Think you know all there is to know about male sexuality—male homosexuality to be precise—its customs, its culture, what makes it tick?  What if you’re way off?  And what if there’s actually nothing to know anyway—in the collective stereotypical sense?  … Continue reading →

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Zombie Joe’s “Urban Death” Revives Rustic Fears the Likes of Which You’ve Never Experienced

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Jennifer K. Hugus

Naked elderly zombie folk reaching to the sky in a split second of illumination–Nude old ladies masturbating in open flower print bathrobes–Equally bare and openly enrobed elderly men in walkers with catheter bags surgically taped to their inner thighs falling … Continue reading →

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Hugues Wisniewski’s Short Film: Headshot Takes a Shot at Taking the Audience in a Most Heady and Explosive Direction

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Jennifer K. Hugus

To what lengths would you go to get your headshot to a prominent (or even not so prominent) talent agent and wow them with one short audition?–Pretend to be the agent down the hall? Wear the Groucho Marx nose and … Continue reading →

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Potty Mouth Packs ‘Em in at Their Very First LA Gig!!!—I SWEAR!

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Jennifer K. Hugus

The night is filled with pretty girls Dancing shoes and flying hair… ~Carly Simon The above lyric quote: Totally incongruous—musically speaking—for the band I have come to see on this vibrant night in Echo Park. Then again, I wouldn’t mind … Continue reading →

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