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Theater Review: THE EMPLOYEES (A Performance-Installation by Ćukasz 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 Ćukasz Twarkowski, who masterfully blends theater, visual art, and cinema. Tonightâs 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; itâs 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 MoisĂ©s Kaufman and Amanda Gronichâs 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 Iâve 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 (AlcoleÌa)
MOONSHOTS AND MUSICAL SAWS: MĂLIĂS GETS A MAKEOVER Georges MĂ©liĂšs wasn’t exactly Spielberg. He was cinema’s first mad scientistâhalf 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. Â 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 Baldwinâs dictum: âArtists are here to disturb the peace.â With the U.S. premiere of Masterclass, Skirballâs 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 authorsâCannon and Truscottâpresumably…
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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 circumstanceâa birth story twined around orchestral strings like umbilical cord. On December 6, 1966âthat annus mirabilisâmy 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: AINâT TOO PROUD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS (National Tour in San Diego)
AINâT TOO PROUD TO PUT ON A GOOD SHOW From 1964 to 1969, there was hardly a time when there wasnât a hit on the Top 40 by The Temptations. A staple of â60s Motown music, the five men of The Temptations seemed able to do no wrong, with hits like âMy Girl,â âThe 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 Mesaâs 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 Broadwayâs fourth longest-running showâsurpassing 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 Londonâs 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 wouldnât be a valid review to simply write, âI loved it!â a hundred times and ship it off to my editor. However, if youâre looking for a bottom line or a simple recommendation, thatâs exactly what this review will come down to. Leandra Ellis-Gaston and the company Evoking the…
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Off-Broadway and International Tour Review: DEAD AS A DODO (Wakka Wakka)
THE BONES OF GREAT THEATER Continuing its international tour, Wakka Wakka, the Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning theater company, returns to NYC with Dead as a Dodo, a surreal and darkly humorous production at the Baruch Performing Arts Center as part of Under the Radar. Their Norwegian-American penchant for irony—and their surreal imagination—are at the…
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Theater Review: & JULIET (Broadway National Tour)
STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE SET TO A POP BEAT After a few weather-related delays, Houston was introduced to the toe-tapping fun that is the national tour of & Juliet at The Hobby Center. Blending fireworks, both literal and metaphorical, & Juliet is a girls’ trip of self-discovery set to a jukebox score provided by powerhouse, Grammy-winning,…
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Theater Review: JAJA’S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING (Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s The Yard)
AN UNFORGETTABLE LAUGHTER-ETCHED LESSON ON LIFE BY WALKING IN SOMEONE ELSE’S SHOES There are two things to know about Jocelyn Bioh, playwright of Jajaâs African Hair Braiding, the theatrical sensation thatâs currently delighting audiences in Chicago Shakespeare Theaterâs The Yard and had Broadway in such a tizzy 15 months ago. She starts with character and,…
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Theater Review: BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (National Tour at San Diego Civic Theatre)
BACK TO BACK TO THE FUTURE For those of us old enough to remember the summer of â85, when the movie Back to the Future reigned in movie theaters, hereâs a daunting thought: Martyâs 30-year time travel back to 1955 was a shorter leap than going to 1985 from now. For the musical, the Broadway…
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