Dead Man at Atwater Village Theatre

Stage Raw - Recommended

"...Dead Man, the latest in a series of clown-peopled-plays by playwright/director Ann Noble, fits that bill — at least for most of its one-hour run. It’s a satiric take on the Raymond Chandler detective genre, about a buffoonish private eye, Hopper Jones (Jeffrey Johnson), and his inept efforts to solve the mystery surrounding an anonymous dead body, while actively pursuing his aspirations to be a writer of — what else? — dime-store detective stories."