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  • Los Angeles Theater Review: THE DEVIL’S WIFE (Skylight Theatre)

    By Dale Reynolds | July 16, 2017
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    A MARRIAGE MADE IN HELL Tom Jacobson’s latest play, The Devil’s Wife, is a droll take on old European tales regarding evil demons and feckless wives. Here, the Devil, in the guise of rich landowner Nicholas Mastema (Everette Wallin), invades the home of the three adult Ramirez sisters as they mourn for their newly passed…

  • Los Angeles Theater, Music & Dance Preview: CULTURE CLASH’S OG SUMMER DESMADRE (John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood)

    By Dale Reynolds | July 11, 2017
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    CURE YOUR POLITICAL HANGOVER WITH CULTURE CLASH Founded in 1984, L.A.’s very own veteran satirical Latino comedy troupe, “Culture Clash” (Herbert Siguenza, Ric Salinas and Richard Montoya)  is headlining a one-night-only variety-extravaganza on Sunday, July 16, 2017  at the Ford Amphitheatre (newly revamped to the tune of $72.2 million), opposite the Hollywood Bowl. Now in their mid-to-late…

  • DVD Review: A FRENCH VILLAGE/UN VILLAGE FRANÇAIS (French Television Series on MHz Releasing)

    By Dale Reynolds | July 1, 2017
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    HOPE FOR A FRENCH VILLAGE In season five of this extraordinary historical series, it’s 1944 and the Germans are losing  the war and are beginning to leave occupied France. The collaborative Vichy Government, which semi-ruled the southern part of France (the zone libre)  as well as the French colonies in North Africa, was’”until this season’”headquartered in the…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW (Rogue Machine at the Met Theatre)

    By Dale Reynolds | June 18, 2017
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    A BRUTAL TRUE-LIFE EVENT IS THE BASIS FOR  POWERFUL THEATER Katharine Cortez’ 80-minute take on the after-effects of the brutal slaying of 49 people at the LGBT dance-bar, PULSE, a year ago June 12th has been sensitively and provocatively directed by veteran Elina de Santos as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. In The Valley of…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: MYSTERY LIT: HOLMES, SHERLOCK, AND THE CONSULTING DETECTIVE (Santa Anita Train Depot)

    By Dale Reynolds | June 15, 2017
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    ELEMENTARY BUT AMUSING Unbound Productions takes original material and sets it in vaguely similar settings using  carefully-chosen actors and company directors; the company has been producing site-specific plays since 2008. Their latest concoction is an amusing mash-up (as they describe it) of three Conan Doyle short stories starring Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Inspector Lestrade, Irene Adler…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: THE INTERFERENCE (Rogue Machine at the Hollywood Fringe Festival)

    By Dale Reynolds | June 14, 2017
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    THERE’S NO INTERFERING WITH GREAT THEATER What an extraordinary piece of theater was this Hollywood Fringe entry from Pepperdine University in Malibu. The Interference confronts the dilemma of how rape or other abuse victims can find justice in a corrupt world. Lynda Radley wrote this 75-minute piece with Pepperdine’s drama department in mind. The title…

  • DVD Review: HOME FIRES, Seasons 1 & 2 (PBS)

    By Dale Reynolds | June 13, 2017
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    SUPERLATIVE HOME FIRES SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN EXTINGUISHED Alas, this  fine British series from ITV, only lasted two seasons (seen in the states  on PBS). A pity, that, as it gave valuable detail to the daily lives of the women and men in the English county  of  Cheshire during WWII. The 12 episodes of  Home Fires, now available on DVD,  are…

  • DVD Review: DARK ANGEL (PBS Masterpiece)

    By Dale Reynolds | June 5, 2017
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    AND “DARK” IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU GET ITV’s damning look at the submissive role women had to live in the nineteenth century and how it negatively affected one woman, Mary Ann Cotton, (née Robson, 1832-1873), turning her into a serial killer of men and children, has been chillingly effected in Dark Angel, as shown on…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: THE SWEETHEART DEAL (Los Angeles Theatre Center)

    By Dale Reynolds | May 20, 2017
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    SWEETHEART DEAL IS A MISSED ROMANCE There’s been scant theater documenting the plight of the Latino farm workers and their fight for economic and racial equality, especially in California. Arts advocate and playwright Diane Rodriguez has lived some of that fight, which is reflected in the best parts of her new play,  The Sweetheart Deal. Unfortunately,…

  • TV/DVD Feature and Interview: MHZ NETWORKS

    By Dale Reynolds | May 16, 2017
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    A BOON TO AMERICAN AUDIENCES “To learn another language is to learn another culture; And to learn another’s culture is to be a world-citizen.” Anonymous For those who have been clamoring for foreign-language television shows without paying a small fortune on specialized cable, MHz Networks has been a major godsend (MHz does indeed stand for…

  • DVD Review: SECRETS OF THE SIX WIVES (Wall to Wall Media/BBC on PBS Distribution)

    By Dale Reynolds | April 17, 2017
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    TOO MUCH CHOPPED  OFF One of the most famous kings of England and his scandalous six marriages have been hotly portrayed, over and over, over the years in film and on television. Now, PBS and Wall to Wall Media/BBC have made a documentary about the six women coupled to Tudor Court’s Henry VIII: Catherine of Aragon…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: THE ORIGINALIST (Pasadena Playhouse)

    By Dale Reynolds | April 15, 2017
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    AN ORIGINAL IDEA The late Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) was an important conservative voice on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1986  until his death. He was a loud-voiced proponent of the intellectual ideal of “originalism,” meaning that interpreting the U.S. Constitution (b. 1789) lies directly with what the framers meant at that time and that no “newfangled”…

  • DVD Review: MERCY STREET, Season 2 (PBS)

    By Dale Reynolds | April 14, 2017
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    MERCY ON US ALL The second season of PBS’ Mercy Street  is very much a continuation of the first season in that it explores the  Civil War in regards to  the hospital staff, both male doctors and female nurses, both pro-Union and pro-Confederate. The producers have successfully brought this part of the War alive, giving it meaning and…

  • DVD Review: THE WEISSENSEE SAGA (German Television Series on MHz Releasing)

    By Dale Reynolds | April 12, 2017
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    A STRONG SAGA OF EAST GERMANY’S STASI & ITS IMPACT ON TWO FAMILIES Set in and around East Berlin between 1980 and 1990, this superior German series is about a family and its involvement with the Stasi, the secret force propping up the dictatorial Communist German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR) from 1949…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: MAN OF LA MANCHA (A Noise Within in Pasadena)

    By Dale Reynolds | April 10, 2017
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    A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS As a part of A Noise Within’s 25th Season, co-Artistic Director Julia Rodriguez-Elliott helms an extraordinary production of this 1964 hit musical, Man of La Mancha, adapted by Dale Wasserman from his 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was adapted from Miguel de Cervantes’ 1605 Don Quixote. The timeless score…

  • DVD Series Review: CORP + ANAM (MHz Networks)

    By Dale Reynolds | March 30, 2017
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    THE AWESOME LANGUAGE OF BODY AND SOUL The primary value of the American company, MHz Releasing, lies in its ability to ferret out quality dramas and police-procedure shows from around the world, but mostly Europe. DVD releases from Italy, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and more have all been aired in their native languages,…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (Antaeus Theatre in Glendale)

    By Dale Reynolds | March 28, 2017
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    UP ON THE ROOF Tennessee Williams’ complete oeuvre went from totally brilliant to completely flat as he evolved in his work, beginning in the early 1940s and ending in the early ’80s. Considering that Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  (1955) is considered one of his top five dramas, it’s a logical choice for classical theater…

  • DVD Review: CAROUSEL (Live From Lincoln Center)

    By Dale Reynolds | March 20, 2017
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    A CAROUSEL FOR THE AGES Concert versions of famous Broadway fare are almost always exciting and delightful. But  the Live from  Lincoln Center  production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1945 Carousel, just released on DVD after being recorded four years ago, hits all  the right spots of attraction: gorgeous music, great singers from Broadway and the opera world, terrific acting,…

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