Note: Teenage Wasteland comes to Palm Springs for one night only: Saturday, May 17 at Revolution Stage Company. Get tickets
“If you’re familiar with David Dean Bottrell, you may know him from his memorable arc on Boston Legal, any of his many, many, many other episodic TV guest appearances, or even his book Working Actor: Breaking In, Making a Living and Making a Life in the Fabulous Trenches of Show Business.
But going forward, he should be known as the man behind the one-man show Teenage Wasteland: Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen.
Bottrell’s show is a series of monologues (hardly; he engenders such amazing responses from the crowd they verge on collaboration) about his tortured teen years, which fall squarely under the old saying: laugh to keep from crying…”
[Read the full review at boyculture.com]