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Off-Broadway Review: MARCEL ON THE TRAIN (Classic Stage Company)
SILENT RESISTANCE A wartime journey inspired by Marcel Marceau’s resistance work becomes an overlong and uneven theatrical ride Marcel Marceau was not only a mime; he was one of the most famous French performers of his time. But he was born Marcel Mangel, to a Jewish family in Strasbourg. His father was a kosher butcher…
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Off-Broadway Review: SPARE PARTS (Theater Row)
SPARE PARTS, FULLY LOADED QUESTIONS Glass’s brainy biotech thriller delivers ideas, surprises, and genuine theatrical punch Jonny-James Kajoba, Rob McClure, Matt Walker and Michael Genet I suppose lots of VPs of Research at biotech companies dream of writing plays that get first-class productions in New York. The same could be said for Senior Lecturers at…
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Theater Review: THE SHARK IS BROKEN (Laguna Playhouse in Laguna Beach)
THREE MEN IN A BOAT, WAITING FOR A FISH At Laguna Playhouse, the making of a blockbuster becomes a chamber piece about ego, craft, and survival Gildart Jackson, Will Block, and Adam Poole The mechanical shark that tormented Steven Spielberg during the filming of Jaws in the summer of 1974 was nicknamed Bruce, after the…
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Theater Review: THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO (Goodman Theatre)
NOT QUITE WONDROUS A Pulitzer winner takes a bumpy trip to the Goodman stage Fans of Junot Díaz’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao are in for a bit of a shock with the world premiere of the English-language stage adaptation by Marco Antonio Rodríguez, now being performed at the Goodman. Examining…
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Cabaret Review: BILLY JOEL SONGBOOK (Tony DeSare at Birdland Theater)
PIANO MAN BY PROXY Tony DeSare salutes Billy Joel with polish, power, and plenty of affection Special thanks go to Billy Joel for changing the career path of the terrifically talented Tony DeSare. The program, Tony DeSare’s Billy Joel Songbook, is an audience-pleasing set that has DeSare honoring Joel’s songs with gusto—one formidable singer-pianist saluting…
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Off-Broadway Review: OUR HOUSE (TOSOS at A.R.T./New York Theatres)
ACTIVISM, FAMILY, AND A BACKYARD BATTLE The new play at TOSOS revisits the legacy of ACT UP and the uneasy quiet that followed CJ DiOrio & Nancy Slusser TOSOS, New York City’s oldest producing queer theater company—debuting in 1974—presents the world premiere of Our House by Barry Boehm. Set in Iowa in 2014, the year…
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Theater Review: ONCE (Berkeley Playhouse)
Few musicals capture the intimacy of music-making quite like Once, and Berkeley Playhouse’s new production reminds us why the show became a Broadway sensation in 2012, winning eight Tony Awards including Best Musical. Adapted by Enda Walsh from John Carney‘s 2007 Irish film, the story blends romance, melancholy, and folk-infused songwriting by Glen Hansard and…
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Off-Broadway Review: BURNOUT PARADISE (Astor Place Theatre)
FULL SPEED AHEAD Pony Cam turns burnout, chaos, and cardio into delirious theater Dominic Weintraub, Claire Bird, Hugo Williams, William Strom Are you, perhaps, missing the wild energy of Blue Man Group at the Astor Place Theatre? Good news: it has been replaced with something just as unconventional. Welcome Burnout Paradise, the theatrical event that…
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TRANSFORM YOUR DAILY CONTENT WITH A SMART AI IMAGE EDITOR
Keeping up with a daily posting schedule is honestly quite exhausting for most creators. You always need fresh and eye-catching graphics for your social media channels, but hiring a full-time designer is rarely in the budget. Staring at a blank screen trying to design something from scratch can quickly lead to severe creative burnout and…
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WHY THE THRILLER MOVIE GENRE KEEPS AUDIENCES HOOKED ACROSS CULTURES
There’s something almost universal about the feeling of suspense. A door creaks open. A character hesitates before answering a phone call. A glance lingers just a second too long. No matter where you’re from — whether you grew up watching films in Mumbai, Lagos, Warsaw, or Buenos Aires — your body reacts the same way….
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Theater Review: ALL MY SONS (Berkeley Rep)
A POSTWAR MORAL RECKONING INSIDE A FAMILY HOME Arthur Miller’s classic still asks uncomfortable questions about responsibility and denial Jimmy Smits Berkeley Repertory Theatre is reviving Arthur Miller’s 1947 postwar classic All My Sons, a heavy family drama whose themes of duty, guilt, and moral responsibility still resonate today. We meet the Keller family: Joe, the…
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Concert Review: FROM MOZART TO MAHLER (Pacific Symphony)
INTIMACY AND ENORMITY: MOZART AND MAHLER IN COSTA MESA Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488, is a peculiar piece to a classical program. It omits oboes entirely, replacing them with clarinets for a softer, more inward blend, and there are no trumpets or drums at all, no means of making a…
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Theater Review: ALL MY SONS (Antaeus Theatre)
THE POSTWAR AMERICAN NIGHTMARE STILL RESONATES A gripping Antaeus revival reminds us how easily communities excuse the unforgivable A successful small-town businessman, a distraught wife, a lovelorn idealistic son, and the ghost of a missing pilot haunt the yard. The themes that moved audiences in the 1940s still touch us today in Antaeus Theatre Company‘s…
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Theater Review: DESTROYING DAVID (Dezart Performs)
There is a profound beauty in watching something fragile survive. In Dezart Performs’ breathtaking West Coast Premiere of Jason Odell Williams’ Destroying David, that fragility is everywhere: in the literal cracks of a 500-year-old statue, in the fractured heart of a grieving mother, and in the very air of the theater itself. Running through March…
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Theater Review: MORNING, NOON, AND NIGHT (Shattered Globe at Theater Wit)
A POST-PANDEMIC RECKONING WITH ISOLATION AND MENTAL HEALTH A moving character study elevated by a nuanced central performance The oddest thing about Kirsten Greenidge’s Morning, Noon, and Night is how fundamentally conventional its construction is. Not that this is necessarily a negative, but for a play that involves eco-doom-scrolling, cheating on exams with Google, and…
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Theater Review: HAMNET (Royal Shakespeare Company at Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
SHAKESPEARE’S NAME, SOMEONE ELSE’S STORY A generic weepie that gloms onto the prestige of Shakespeare while offering nothing of substance in return Rory Alexander and Kemi-Bo Jacobs as William and Agnes Shakespeare Let’s start with a simple exercise: If you were to replace the name “Will,” as in William Shakespeare, with a random name—say, Robert,…
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Theater Review: POT GIRLS (The Story Theater at The Raven)
A SMART, PLAYFUL SPIN ON A FEMINIST CLASSIC Paul Michael Thomson’s witty homage to Top Girls is dazzling—if occasionally too clever for comfort Myah Bridgewater and Laney Rodriguez A world premiere from Story Theatre, performed at the Raven, Paul Michael Thomson’s Pot Girls is a charming update on Caryl Churchill’s Thatcher-era feminist classic Top Girls,…
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Theater Review: BARTLEBY (Fiasco Theater at The Old Globe)
A SCRIVENER WHO PREFERS NOT TO A minimalist Melville adaptation turns quiet resistance into compelling theater Andy Grotelueschen as The Lawyer and Michael Crane as Bartleby Fiasco Theater is presenting the world premiere of Bartleby at The Old Globe in Balboa Park. The play is a stage adaptation of Herman Melville’s 1853 short story, “Bartleby…
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Off-Broadway Review: CHINESE REPUBLICANS (Roundabout Theatre Company)
A POWER LUNCH WITH KNIVES UNDER THE TABLE Ambition, rivalry, and assimilation simmer in Alex Lin’s sharp corporate comedy There are ordinary lunches, and then there are Chinese Republicans lunches, the subject of a new play by Alex Lin, directed by Chay Yew at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre. In it, four high-achieving Chinese-American…
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Cabaret Review: JOHN PIZZARELLI TRIO (Album Release “Dear Mr. Bennett” at Birdland)
A BENNETT SONGBOOK WITH PIZZARELLI SWING The singer-guitarist and his trio offer solid entertainment and a nostalgic stroll through a legend’s songbook There may not be many things you can count on in the world, but you can always depend on John Pizzarelli to deliver quality performances with quality material—and a few laughs along the…
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