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Theater Review: “MASTER HAROLD” …AND THE BOYS (Rubicon Theatre in Ventura)
MASTER PRODUCTION During the last half-hour of the exquisitely produced “Master Harold”…and the boys, the Rubicon becomes theatre as a temple: a transcendental, spiritual, empowering and uplifting theatrical experience that only a playwriting craftsman like Athol Fugard could create. For what was up to then a lyrical examination of a white seventeen year-old school boy, and his…
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Los Angeles / Orange County Theater Review: CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION (South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa)
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Sometimes a play comes along that is so different from any play that has preceded it that, while it may have people scratching their heads, wondering what it is they have just seen – or even dismissing it out of hand because of its unfamiliarity – it is exactly the kind of…
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Theater Review: CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION (South Coast Rep)
REVIEWER ATTENDS AN ACTING CLASS (A TEACHER leads an acting class for reviewers.) TEACHER: OK, Tony, imagine you’re writing a review. It has been three days since you have seen Circle Mirror Transformation at South Coast Rep. What do you feel? TONY: Nothing. TEACHER: Oh, come on. You can dig deeper than that. TONY: OK….
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Theater Review: LA NOUBA (Cirque du Soleil in Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando)
A KINDER, SIMPLER CIRQUE Commedia dell’arte is a form of theatre characterized by masked ’˜types,’ which began in Italy in the mid-1500s. About one hundred years later, Italian troupes (known as Comédie-Italienne) had achieved success in France where Moliére, inspired by the use of stock characters, introduced a lovelorn peasant named Pierrot in the play…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE SECRET GARDEN, THE MUSICAL (Chance Theater in Anaheim)
BAFFLING MUSICAL GETS THE TREATMENT IT DOESN’T DESERVE What do Miss Saigon, Grand Hotel, City of Angels, Aspects of Love, Will Rogers Follies, and Meet Me in St Louis have in common? They opened during the 1990-91  Broadway season, and all of them (City of Angels  to a lesser degree) are problematic with either awkward scores and/or…
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Theater Review: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (National Tour)
SMALLER PRODUCTION, BIGGER HEART Fans of the stage musical Beauty and the Beast will not be disappointed by the newly re-imagined (read: scaled down) version currently on tour. Original Broadway director Rob Roth has assembled the same team, including Tony-winning costume designer Ann Hould-Ward; what we get, instead of a two-ton castle set, is a…
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Regional Theater Review: BECKY SHAW (South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa)
SHARP AS A DULL RAZOR Gina Gionfriddo is smart. She has gone to no less brilliant a writer than William Makepeace Thackeray for inspiration. Becky. Gionfriddo’s contemporary gold digger, in her desperation to worm her way out of her class and into a marriage that seems recklessly impossible, even owes her name to Becky Sharp,…
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Theater Review: J.M. BARRIE’S PETER PAN (National Tour at the OC Performing Arts Center)
NEVERLAND NEVER LANDS – NOR DOES THIS PETER PAN TAKE OFF. In 2003, Universal Studios released a version of Peter Pan, J M Barrie’s beloved tale of childhood imagination that is threatened by burgeoning adulthood. The film used mind-boggling CGI effects to enhance the story of Peter, the boy who refuses to grow up, and…
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Theater Review: THE WHO’S TOMMY (Chance Theater in Anaheim)
WITH A STUNNING ROCK CONCERT LIKE THIS, WHO NEEDS A COHESIVE STORY? It was shocking to walk outside at intermission of The Who’s Tommy at the Chance Theater: the professionalism and high artistic achievement is so transporting that you will surely forget that you are in an industrial strip mall in Anaheim Hills. Don’t ever let the…
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