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Theater Interview: DAVID DEAN BOTTRELL (New Solo Show “Teenage Wasteland” Now on Tour)
Teenage Wasteland: David Dean Bottrell Brings His New Solo Show to Revolution Stage Company An award-winning actor and writer dives into the awkward, hilarious, and heartfelt moments of adolescence—ages thirteen to fifteen—with his signature wit and warmth. David Dean Bottrell, acclaimed actor and storyteller known for his roles in Frasier, Modern Family, and his work…
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Theater Review: HAMILTON (National Tour in San Diego)
NOT YOUR GRANDMA’S 1776 Until Hamilton, if you’d asked me if I liked rap music, you’d have gotten a pretty quick, “No.” And I still do cringe at the memories of cars driving up my street with offensive lyrics played at sonic boom levels, because that had been my primary exposure to rap. So why…
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Theater Review: HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (National Tour at Hollywood Pantages Theatre)
WE’RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARDS (AGAIN) The line between fan fiction and canon can be a blurry one. In a world where Twilight fan fiction inspired the best-selling book of the last decade and a Wizard of Oz flip became one of last year’s most prolific movies, it’s clear that capitalizing on existing IP…
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Theater Review: MEAN GIRLS (National Tour in Boston)
PREDATORS IN PINK Tina Fey (book), Jeff Richmond (music), and Nell Benjamin (lyrics) hit all the standard Broadway musical marks with Mean Girls, now in Boston as part of a national tour. It offers an impressive mix of dazzling choreography (Casey Nicholaw) and soaring voices from a young cast bursting with entertainment talent. Ironically, however,…
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Theater Review: THE EMPLOYEES (A Performance-Installation by Łukasz Twarkowski at NYU Skirball)
HUMANS, BEST BE ON YOUR AVANT-GARDE The Employees, originally produced at Studio Teatrgaleria in Warsaw, is a visionary performance and installation work by Polish-born artist, writer and director Łukasz Twarkowski, who masterfully blends theater, visual art, and cinema. Tonight’s North American premiere, playing through Saturday at NYU Skirball—unfolds across the vast expanse of the stage,…
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Off-Broadway Review: A NIGHT IN NOVEMBER (Alan Smyth at New York Irish Center)
A NIGHT TO REMEMBER Walking into the New York Irish Center in Long Island City for the first time to see a show feels a bit like stumbling into a well-kept secret; it’s an intimate gathering place and an unassuming, cozy, cultural enclave. You hear snippets of conversation in lilting accents, laughter echoing from the…
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Theater Review: HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES (Tectonic Theater Project at Berkeley Repertory Theatre)
HERE THERE ARE HORRORS Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich’s Here There Are Blueberries, directed by Kaufman at Berkeley Rep, involves a fascinating true story. We are at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., where archivists study, document, and interpret Holocaust history—people often donate letters, photographs, and personal mementos from family members of that…
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Theater Review: SHUCKED (National Tour)
IT DON’T GET MUCH CORNIER– AND THAT’S THE POINT In Shucked, the jokes fly fast as exploding kernels of popcorn in this Tony-award winning musical comedy—part Brigadoon, part Music Man, and wholly the old TV show Hee Haw (which I’ve never actually seen but instinctively recognize). Quinn VanAntwerp and Miki Abraham Jake Odmark and Mike Nappi Shucked is the…
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Film, Concert and Tour Review: RIGHT IN THE EYE (Alcoléa)
MOONSHOTS AND MUSICAL SAWS: MÉLIÈS GETS A MAKEOVER Georges Méliès wasn’t exactly Spielberg. He was cinema’s first mad scientist—half director, half magician, all-around agent of chaos. In the early 1900s, he wasn’t so much directing films as he was recording fever dreams: rocket ships crashing into eyeball moons, skeletons dancing Irish jigs, ghost houses with…
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Theater Review: DIETRICH (Tour at Revolution in Palm Springs)
FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN Last night, Revolution Stage Company presented Cindy Marinangel‘s in her one woman show, Dietrich. Inspired by the legendary Marlene Dietrich, this is a captivating night of theater. Marinangel fully inhabits Dietrich, bringing a fresh and compelling take on her life and career. From the moment she steps onto the stage she…
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Theater Interview: TOM MORAN (Starring in National Tour of “Tom Moran is a Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar”)
AN HONEST INTERVIEW ABOUT LYING Tom Moran is many things: a stage and film actor, a writer, a voice-over artist, a budding author, and a podcast host of Personality Bingo. Under the auspices of The Abbey and Culture Ireland, he’s been to Sydney and Melbourne with his one-man comedy show, Tom Moran Is a Big Fat…
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Off-Broadway Review: MASTERCLASS (NYC Skirball)
WHITEOUT NYU Skirball adheres closely to James Baldwin’s dictum: “Artists are here to disturb the peace.” With the U.S. premiere of Masterclass, Skirball’s mission has been resoundingly fulfilled. Presented by Brokentalkers & Adrienne Truscott, this provocative, 60-minute two-hander, written by Feidlim Cannon, Gary Keegan, and Truscott, is performed by two of its authors—Cannon and Truscott—presumably…
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Concert Review: ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA (Lahav Shani, conductor, at Segerstrom Concert Hall)
COMING HOME TO THE ISRAEL PHIL The Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) lives in my blood. Not metaphorically. This sentiment springs from actual circumstance—a birth story twined around orchestral strings like umbilical cord. On December 6, 1966—that annus mirabilis—my mother was in her 8th month with me in Tel Aviv’s main concert hall while the Israel…
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Theater Review: HAMILTON (National Tour in Houston)
Now playing at The Hobby Center in Houston is the national tour of the absolute crown jewel of the theater known simply as Hamilton. This artistic cultural phenomenon is non-stop high-energy from beginning to end, showing no signs of slowing down. At almost a decade old, the story of the elusive and blindly ambitious Founding…
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Theater Recommendation: AIN’T TOO PROUD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS (National Tour in San Diego)
AIN’T TOO PROUD TO PUT ON A GOOD SHOW From 1964 to 1969, there was hardly a time when there wasn’t a hit on the Top 40 by The Temptations. A staple of ‘60s Motown music, the five men of The Temptations seemed able to do no wrong, with hits like “My Girl,” “The Way…
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Theater Review: PARADE (National Tour at Emerson, Boston)
STILL WAITING FOR JUSTICE At its heart, Parade is a gripping exploration of prejudice, justice, and the power of perception. This Tony Award-winning revival, directed by Michael Arden, is based on the true story of Leo Frank (Max Chernin), a Jewish factory superintendent in early 20th-century Atlanta who is falsely accused of the rape and…
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Theater Review: ANNIE (2024/2025 NationalTour)
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHERE THE SUN DOESN’T COME OUT, SEE THIS NATIONAL TOUR OF ANNIE If the sun will come out tomorrow, somebody better tell this production. The national tour of Annie, playing at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts through February 23, is a two-and-a-half-hour exercise in endurance, proving that while…
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Theater Review: WICKED (National Tour)
STILL A WICKED GOOD TIME The stage musical Wicked is now Broadway’s fourth longest-running show—surpassing Cats; productions continue to sprout up globally in many languages; and last year’s film adaptation of just Act I continues to be a ginormous hit. And last night, the equally successful North American Tour—which has played over 6000 performances—settled in for a…
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Broadway Opening: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (Sarah Snook at the Music Box Theatre)
A deal with the devil; eternal youth, for the ultimate price. The Picture of Dorian Gray is coming to Broadway’s Music Box Theatre for a strictly limited engagement 14-week engagement following a sold-out run in London’s West End. Sarah Snook (Shiv Roy in Succession), who won the 2024 Olivier Award for her performance, makes her Broadway…
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Theater Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT (National Tour)
EVERYONE WILL LIKE IT HOT It wouldn’t be a valid review to simply write, “I loved it!” a hundred times and ship it off to my editor. However, if you’re looking for a bottom line or a simple recommendation, that’s exactly what this review will come down to. Leandra Ellis-Gaston and the company Evoking the…
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