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Virtual New York Theater: OFF BROADWAY (Broadstream Media)
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED SATIRE NOW EXTENDED TO JULY 11, 2021 Boy, did I ever enjoy this one! The year is 2020 and the American theater is shut down : but it is not shut off. The new play Off Broadway follows the staff of a non-profit theater as they come together on Zoom and scramble to…
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New York Theater Casting Notice: TREVOR, A NEW MUSICAL (National Virtual Casting Call for 12 to 16-year-olds of all ethnicities)
National Virtual Casting Call Announced For TREVOR, A NEW MUSICAL Submit Your Audition by July 26! Teenagers, here’s a great opportunity to be in a musical in New York! Trevor: The Musical is now accepting virtual video auditions ahead of the show’s premiere production this October. Tara Rubin Casting is seeking 12- to 16-year-olds of…
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Broadway & Regional Theater: HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (Lyric Theatre in New York; Curran in San Francisco; Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto)
IT’S SAFE TO SAY THERE’S MAGIC IN STORE You know, I was never bored watching the epic two-part Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; it truly was a magical experience, and the production team deserved congratulations. But Jack Thorne’s script, I thought, could use some judicious trimming. And now that’s happened, due in large part (according…
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Music Concerts: CAMERATA PACIFICA (2021-22 Season)
CAMERATA PACIFICA’S 32ND SEASON OF CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS RESUMES IN OCTOBER, 2021 Of all the discoveries my husband and I have made in the last year watching Zoom presentations and YouTube videos, we realized that we missed live music the most. Especially So Cal’s own Camerata Pacifica, a presenter of the most exquisite chamber music…
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Documentary Film Review: THE ACCIDENTAL PRESIDENT (directed by James Fletcher)
THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS I suppose there are many people who still scratch their heads contemplating Donald Trump’s ascent to the White House. Filmmaker James Fletcher’s myriad collection of media clips — along with media pundits, celebs, and pols both liberal and conservative — give a clocklike detailing that blueprints Trump’s trek from being a…
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Film: BOGART: 3-WEEK FESTIVAL OF HARDBOILED CLASSICS (Film Forum in NYC)
ALL HE HAS TO DO TO DOMINATE A SCENE IS TO ENTER IT.” – Raymond Chandler “BOGART,” a three-week, 19-film festival celebrating iconic movie tough guy and romantic hero Humphrey Bogart, will run at Film Forum from Friday, July 16 – Thursday, August 5 (three weeks). This will be Film Forum’s first series since its reopening in April. IN 35MM AND…
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Art Exhibit: THE PLASTIC BAG STORE (DTLA Arts District)
BAGTASTIC UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents The Plastic Bag Store to the public in Los Angeles’s downtown Arts District Wednesday, June 30 thru Sunday, July 11, 2021. Plastic Bag Store. Photos by Tony Lewis. Created by award-winning Brooklyn-based artist, puppet designer and director Robin Frohardt, The Plastic Bag Store was conceived…
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Theater Review: AN OCTOROON (The Fountain Theater in L.A.)
THE PLAY’S THE THING It’s no wonder that Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ brilliant adaptation of Dion Boucicault’s 1895 suspenseful melodrama The Octoroon is eight times better and more exciting than any other offering on America’s stages. It speaks to the current conversation of race in America while presenting a rather unknown actual nineteenth-century play that is rife…
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Virtual Theater Review: BECOMING DR. RUTH (starring Tovah Feldshuh from North Coast Rep in San Diego)
TO TELL THE RUTH Talk about becoming a hit. Playwright Mark St. Germain (Camping with Henry and Tom, Freud’s Last Session) has done it again. He loves to take us into the lives of renowned true-life personalities, offering us biographical insights into the development of their thinking and way of being, from The Collyer Brothers…
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Broadway Reopening: DAVID BYRNE’S AMERICAN UTOPIA (September 17 at the St. James Theatre)
RETURNING TO UTOPIA Talking Heads superstar David Byrne has acquired a home for his acclaimed rock spectacle American Utopia — Broadway’s St. James Theatre, beginning Friday, September 17, 2021. And just in time: The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced that they will present a Special Tony Award to David Byrne’s American Utopia, the tickets…
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Virtual Theater: Cris Franco’s 57 CHEVY (San Diego REP)
HOW BROWN WAS MY VALLEY? Following the successful streamed productions of A Weekend with Pablo Picasso and JQA, San Diego REP is offering a filmed version of Cris Franco’s play 57 Chevy, directed by Herbert Siguenza and Sam Woodhouse. I have seen and loved Franco’s rib-tickling one-man memory play live with Ric Salinas when it…
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NYC Cabaret: PANGEA SUPPER CLUB RE-OPENS (East Village)
The beloved East Village supper club Pangea, which came perilously close to closing during COVID, is announcing a mixture of ticketed and no-cover entertainment during the summer. The announcement comes as Pangea earns the prestigious Village Award. Among the headliners are Tym Moss (June 20) and Flotilla DeBarge (June 26 & 27, produced by TWEED TheaterWorks) anchoring a week…
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Dance: THE PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY (The Music Center in L.A. | Abraham’s“ “Only the Lonely” & Taylor’s”Promethean Fire”)
THE MUSIC CENTER WELCOMES BACK PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY Los Angeles’s Music Center has a hit on its hands with its DANCE AT DUSK outdoor performance series. First, we had amazing tap dance with a live jazz combo, then American Ballet Theater, and this week is the great Paul Taylor Dance Company. Five in-person performances (June…
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Album Review: GET YOURSELF SOME HAPPY! (Lillias White)
Awesome Broadway fave Lillias White releases her first Solo Studio Album: Get Yourself Some Happy! Here she is, boys! The great Lillias White is releasing her first solo studio album, Get Yourself Some Happy!, out July 23, 2021. I caught Ms. White in a cabaret just before the pandemic shutdown, and that evening stays with…
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Opera Review: DON PROCOPIO (Pacific Opera Project in L.A.)
SILLY PROCOPIO LEFT ME IN OSTRITCHES Well, last Sunday night, courtesy of Pacific Opera Project’s presentation of Don Procopio, I had my first foray to a live production since the pandemic put a pause on live performances (and as long as I’m alliterating, we packed a pleasant picnic perfect for piggery). While I had attended…
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Music | Dance | Theater: CAL PERFORMANCES (2021-22 Season)
SUPERCALILINEUP Talk about coming back with a bang! Berkeley’s Cal Performances has announced its 2021–22 season, and the Bay Area is getting the best line-up I have seen since well before the pandemic shut everything down. The world’s greatest artists in jazz, classical, opera, pop, dance, theater, and more are heading to Berkeley, leaving you…
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Audio Theater: THE MURDER ON THE LINKS (L.A. Theatre Works; starring Alfred Molina and Simon Helberg)
L.A. Theatre Works has commissioned a new audio theater adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie “whodunit” The Murder on the Links. The all-star cast includes Alfred Molina (as Christie’s most famous detective, Hercule Poirot), Simon Helberg, Adhir Kalyan, Joanne Whalley, Kevin Daniels, Edita Brychta, Darren Richardson, Jocelyn Towne and Matthew Wolf. Written by the BBC’s Kate McAll, who previously adapted the novels Frankenstein, Daniel Deronda and A Room with a View for…
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Off-Broadway: STOMP (Re-opening on July 20 at the Orpheum)
REIGNITING THE RHYTHM STOMP, which I originally saw at New York’s 299-seat Orpheum Theatre in 1994, has performers using their bodies and both industrial and household objects as percussive musical instruments, and it was performance art nirvana. Years later, it still retains the original flair and comedy that makes it so enjoyable. The indefatigable, rhythmic,…
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Broadway: THE STORY BEHIND THE MUSIC MAN
THE MUSIC MAN BEHIND THE MUSIC MAN OK, we’ve had Trouble with a capital “T” this year. But fear not, the train will be coming into the Winter Garden Theatre station for one of the most anticipated shows of the upcoming season. New dates have been announced for Meredith Willson’s The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman…
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Art / Film: MOVIE PROP & MEMORABILIA AUCTION (Prop Store)
Over 100 original Star Wars props & memorabilia among 1,300 other props, costumes, and memorabilia worth over $6.1 million ( £4.4 million) to go under the hammer in upcoming Los Angeles auction on Tuesday 29th July, Wednesday 30th July and Thursday 1st July 2021. Online bidding is now open at Prop Store. Carrie Fisher’s “Princess Leia” heavily annotated original…
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