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Concert Review: LET’S GET AWAY FROM IT ALL (Michael Feinstein at Carnegie Hall)
NO PLACE LIKE HOME— UNLESS MICHAEL FEINSTEIN TAKES YOU THERE Let’s Get Away From It All proves the Great American Songbook is still first-class travel When Michael Feinstein opened his show Let’s Get Away From It All at Zankel Hall with the question, “Is there anybody that doesn’t want to get away?” the answer came…
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Album Review: BRISKET FOR BREAKFAST (Joe Alterman, featuring Houston Person, with bassist Kevin Smith and drummer Justin Chesarek)
JAZZ WITH JOY: THE BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS The back cover of the instrumental CD Brisket for Breakfast by the Joe Alterman Trio and their guest, veteran tenor sax man Houston Person, cutely reinforces the album title’s reference to food with two promises worthy of the marriage of a roadside diner and a jazz set. Both…
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Feature Story: RAYMOND MUNRO (On Adapting Works by Raymond Carter into Story Theatre on Film)
Raymond Munro (photo by Stephen DiRado) TWO RAYS UNITE IN A JOURNEY OF STORY THEATRE Theatre, by its nature, is ephemeral. That is part of its allure, and part of what we love about it. It forces us into the here and now- ever changing and ever present. We are also keenly aware of the…
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Theater Review: ARMS AND THE MAN (Lamb’s Players Theatre in Coronado)
A DELIGHTFUL LITTLE SCRIPT—FOR SHAW! Best known for Pygmalion (which was adapted into My Fair Lady), Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw challenged people’s views on social issues, including class structure. In his Arms and the Man, there’s a clear message of celebrating the letting go of putting on airs, as well as a hard look at…
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Theater Review: RENT (Revolution Stage Company)
NO DAY BUT TONIGHT Revolution Stage Company’s Rent delivers heart and heat, if not always polish Revolution Stage Company’s production of Rent, directed by James Owens, bursts with passion and commitment, offering an earnest exploration of love, loss, and survival in New York City’s East Village at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis. The energy…
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Theater Review: GOLDEN AGE (Force of Nature Productions at Sawyer’s Playhouse in North Hollywood)
SUPER ZEROES UNITE! Aging heroes, flat jokes, and laughs that need life support Golden Age by Thomas J. Nisuraca is the roughest of rough theatre. Staged by Force of Nature Productions and directed by Aurora Culver at North Hollywood’s Sawyer’s Playhouse, Golden Age kicks off with a premise worthy of a Saturday Night Live skit:…
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Highly Recommended Event: PALM SPRINGS PLAZA THEATRE COMMUNITY OPEN HOUSE
RAISING THE CURTAIN AGAIN Palm Springs Plaza Theatre celebrates its grand reopening with a free community open house After a two-year, multimillion-dollar restoration, the historic Palm Springs Plaza Theatre will reopen its doors with a free community open house and block party on Saturday, November 22, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visitors can…
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Theater Review: BESIDE MYSELF (Laguna Playhouse)
A GREAT PREMISE GETS LOBOTOMIZED Laguna Playhouse offers a dazzling wall of doors and not much behind them Paul Slade Smith’s new play Beside Myself arrives with a knockout premise: Gemma, a therapist, is so consumed by anxiety that she undergoes an experimental “minimally invasive” brain surgery to excise her worry. But near the end…
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Theater Review: THE BEAUTIFUL LAND I SEEK (LA LINDA TIERRA QUE BUSCO YO) (Teatro Chelsea)
GUNNING FOR PUERTO RICO Stephen Sondheim chose an unlikely topic for his 1990 Assassins, a musical that portrays assassinating or attempting to assassinate a president is as American as popular music. I can’t say whether or not playwright Matthew Barbot was inspired by Sondheim’s musical, but Barbot certainly fills a hole in Sondheim’s line-up of…
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Theater Review: THE HEART SELLERS (South Coast Rep)
THE QUIET COST OF BELONGING Suh’s Thanksgiving duet is lovely and lived-in, but leaves one wishing for deeper stakes The Heart Sellers at South Coast Rep offers a focused, uninterrupted glimpse into the lives of two strangers on Thanksgiving Day, 1973, near the end of Richard Nixon’s reign. The story begins with Luna (Nicole Javier),…
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Film Review: THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING (Written and Directed by Sherman Alexie; Restored)
A TRIBE, A DIATRIBE, MOVING AWAY & MOVING ON Say what you will about the ties that bind. If those ties were literally ropes, some of them would stay strong and some would fray or break. Arguably, time does not heal all wounds; some hurts fester and foster resentment for years. Prodigal sons may have…
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Opera Review: HILDEGARD (World Premiere, LA Opera and Beth Morrison Projects at The Wallis)
BEST BE ON YOUR HILDEGARD WATCHING THIS THING When approaching a work based on history, it’s expected that there will be some degree of fictionalization. Even though it won’t be completely true, the broad strokes will be, and you’ll leave having learned a tiny bit of something new. However, Hildegard, the dull new opera by…
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Off-Broadway Review: THE BURNING CAULDRON OF FIERY FIRE (Vineyard Theatre and The Civilians)
A SPELLBINDING CAULDRON BOILS OVER, SUMMONING THEATER’S WILD GODS Suffice it to say, there’s nothing else in New York quite like Anne Washburn’s new play The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire, now at the Vineyard Theatre in collaboration with The Civilians. For anyone bored by the constraints of realism and naturalism—and instead drawn to theater…
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Cabaret Review: LT’S MUCH TOO GAY CABARET: A PERFORMANCE FOR LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND EVERYONE IN BETWEEN (Revolution Stage Company)
MUCH TOO GAY? JUST GAY ENOUGH! This past Thursday evening, Revolution Stage Company presented a dazzling, high-energy celebration of LGBTQ+ pride, self-acceptance, and joy—filled with wit, glitter, and heart—in LT’s Much Too Gay Cabaret: A Performance for Ladies, Gentlemen, and Everyone in Between. The show embraced the gay experience in all its vibrancy, tackling everything…
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Theater Review: THE HOUSE THAT WILL NOT STAND (Invictus Theatre Company)
THIS HOUSE STANDS ON FAITH AND FURY Invictus Theatre’s The House That Will Not Stand blazes with wit, grief, and grace Following the smashing success of its production of Angels in America, Invictus Theatre Co. notches up another triumph with Marcus Gardley’s Obie-winner, The House That Will Not Stand. In this (very) loose adaptation of…
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Theater Review: THE 4TH WITCH (Manual Cinema)
BLACK AND WHITE AND DREAD ALL OVER Chicago-based Manual Cinema employs an extraordinary suite of “old-school” technologies and techniques to bring a response to Shakespeare’s Macbeth to the Emerson Paramount theater as part of the Arts Emerson series. With no spoken dialogue, the company uses shadow puppets, projected pantomime, live music, and recorded sound effects…
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Theater Review: THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)
A FAMILY EPIC THAT EARNS ITS MILEAGE, SPRAWL AND ALL Family dynamics are always great fodder for drama. And when there are several children coming of age together in a household, it’s hard not to grow up with unspoken competitions for approval, success and love. More often than not at least one family member has…
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Off-Broadway Review: 44 – THE MUSICAL (Daryl Roth)
A LOVE LETTER TO THE OBAMAS THAT BRINGS THE WHITE HOUSE DOWN The biggest surprise of the season for me has been 44 – The Musical, which opened last night at the Daryl Roth Theatre. Billed as a satirical look at the rise and presidency of Barack Obama—and the eccentric characters he met along the…
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Theater Review: PINOCCHIO (The Conservatory at Coachella Valley Repertory in Cathedral City)
WOOD YOU BELIEVE IT? CV REP’S PINOCCHIO CARVES OUT A WINNER The Conservatory program at Coachella Valley Repertory opens its arms wide to the next generation of theatre lovers with Pinocchio, Greg Banks’s zippy retelling of the wooden boy who just wants to be real. Director Howard Shangraw packs Banks’s fast-paced adaptation with physical comedy,…
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Highly Recommended Concert: DOLLY PARTON’S THREADS: MY SONGS IN SYMPHONY
Dolly Parton has never been one for half measures. When she says the threads of her life run through her songs, she means it. That idea is taken literally with Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs in Symphony, a concert that turns her catalog into a sweeping orchestral experience. The event was developed by the Queen…
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