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Concert Review: AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (U.S. Tour at Jordan Hall in Boston)
MAKING THE OLD NEW “Make it new,” Ezra Pound urged the poets of the early twentieth century. For Modernists such as T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, H.D., Amy Lowell, and Pound himself, making it new meant innovating to produce something never before seen or read. Yet Boston’s Celebrity Series has now brought us two concerts…
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Theater Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO (National Tour, Pantages)
YOUR GREAT ADVENTURE AWAITS If you rearrange the letters of “progeria,” you can get “opera rig,” or “rigor ape,” or “prior age.” That last one is befitting. Progeria is an incredibly rare syndrome that causes people to age faster than normal. Though the turmoil of high school, a troubled home, and growing up in New…
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Highly Recommended Theater: SYMPHONY OF RATS (West Coast Premiere, The Wooster Group at REDCAT in Los Angeles)
In Symphony of Rats, a President of the United States has strange encounters of the phantasmagorical kind. Surrounded by his presidential aides, he plunges into a series of incidents where he meets otherworldly beings, among them a giant rat with a special message. October 18-20 & 22-23, 2024, the legendary Wooster Group transforms REDCAT in downtown L.A. into a sort of mad laboratory for their latest deliriously trippy production Symphony of Rats, directed by Elizabeth LeCompte,…
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Theater Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO (National Tour, San Diego)
WILL YOU STILL NEED ME, WHEN I’M (LOOKING) SIXTY-FOUR? How would you live your life if you knew you were going to die of old age : in your late teens? All teens experience appearance issues, but Kimberly Levaco (Carolee Carmello) has it worse than most. Kim has a rare chromosomal disease very similar to…
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Theater Review: TESLA: A RADIO PLAY FOR THE STAGE (Tour at Cal Tech and Big Bear Lake Performing Arts Center)
AN ELECTRIFYING TESLA Much has been written about Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating current, radio and so much more, ever since his name became one of the world’s most known electric automobile brand names in 2003. Robbed of the scientific accolades he deserved by others more in tune with how to make…
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Highly Recommended Theater: RANDY RAINBOW FOR PRESIDENT (McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert)
A RAINBOW COMES TO PALM DESERT If you’re looking for a truly iconic evening of laugh-out-loud comedy, you’re in luck. This Friday and Saturday, October 11 and 12 at 7:30, internet sensation Randy Rainbow is headed to the McCallum Theatre, a perfect venue for Rainbow’s hilarious brand of entertainment. With election season quickly approaching (let’s…
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Highly Recommended Film Concert: SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE LIVE IN CONCERT (International Tour)
GET STICKY WITH IT Building on the success of sold out shows worldwide, a new 50+ city U.S. tour has begun of the next chapter of the Spider-Verse saga. The highly-anticipated sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Live in Concert will land at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Hall for one performance only on Sunday, October 27 at 2 before flying to spin its webs elsewhere. Tickets are available now by calling…
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Highly Recommended Theater: THE EMPIRE STRIPS BACK: A BURLESQUE PARODY (The Montalbán Theatre in Hollywood)
IT’S OK TO GET SAUCED FOR STUNNING SAUCY STRIPPERS AND SPECTACULAR SAUCERS, OR MAY THE TORSO BE WITH YOU Forget about Broadway or the latest Marvel Comic movie. The fun, hip and cool burlesque Star Wars parody ’” which isn’t just for fans of the franchise ’” is the show to see live onstage. Surprised by…
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Event Review: AN EVENING WITH AMOR TOWLES (“Table for Two” Book and Lecture Tour)
A GENTLEMAN FROM BOSTON IN BOSTON Amor Towles, author of the best-selling Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Lincoln Highway as well as the newly published Table for Two, regaled an appreciative audience with anecdotes about his own life, his writing process, and a glimpse into the origins of one of the…
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Theater Review: FIGHT NIGHT (Ontroerend Goed Theatre Performance Company / North American Tour)
A LIVELY AND TIMELY EXAMINATION OF VOTING BEHAVIOR Fight Night, brought to seven American states by the Belgian performance group Ontroerend Goed (a punning name, roughly translated as “Feel Estate”), combines theater of the absurd with current events to engage and challenge. Directed by Alexander Devriendt, brings five candidates (Aurelie Lannoy, Julia Ghysels, Bastiaan Vandendriessche,…
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Theater Review: THE CHER SHOW (2024-25 National Tour)
I’VE GOT SOME GREAT NEWS TO CHER The Cher Show, a new musical that follows Broadway’s continuous trend of capitalizing on rockstar jukebox bio-musicals like MJ The Musical and Tina The Tina Turner Musical, stopped at Long Beach’s Terrace Theatre as part of its 2024-2025 national tour (the show closed after a year on Broadway…
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Theater Review: DUEL REALITY (Ahmanson Theatre)
STAR-CROSSED … AND TOSSED Think of The 7 Fingers (Les 7 doigts de la main) as a mini Cirque du Soleil performing onstage instead of in a ring under a Big Tent. This Montreal-based circus troupe and creative collective is making its Music Center debut with a brief two-week run of its current show, Duel…
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Theater Review: RACHMANINOFF AND THE TSAR: A NEW MUSICAL PLAY (Hershey Felder Presents on Tour)
CAUGHT BETWEEN A RACH AND TSAR-ED PLACE For those not familiar with composer and classical pianist Hershey Felder, he’s something of a living homage to great composers of the last 200 years. In 1999, he debuted his one-man show George Gershwin Alone after interviewing many of the composer’s family members. Its success prompted him to…
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New York Cabaret Review: DEEP INSIDE TONIGHT! (The Kinsey Sicks at Green Room 42 and On Tour)
WITH SICKS YOU GET MANHOLE Few people these days remember the gorgeous harmonies of the Andrew Sisters or the McGuire Sisters. They sang jazz, pop and traditional songs while executing elaborate dance moves. But today we have a new version of these famous girl groups. They’re a Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet called The Kinsey Sicks and…
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Cabaret Review: ROBERTA GAMBARINI (Catalina Jazz Club)
Italian jazz singer Roberta Gambarini, continues to reign supreme in the jazz world, as demonstrated by her electrifying performance at Catalina Jazz Club on Saturday August 10, 2024. Her voice, rich and velvety, transcends conventional boundaries, turning each jazz standard into an intimate, almost sacred experience, where every note she sings resonates with emotional depth…
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Highly Recommended Cabaret: THE ERRORS TOUR (Varla Jean Merman at Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood and on Tour)
VARLA JEAN’S INTERNATIONAL TOUR STOPS AT CATALINA IN HOLLYWOOD FOR TWO SHOWS ONLY TUES, OCTOBER 8 and WED, OCTOBER 9, 2024 AT 8:30PM Chris Isaacson Presents and Catalina is bringing back drag icon and award-winning singer and comedienne Varla Jean Merman to Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood with her new show The Errors Tour for two…
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Theater Review: FUNNY GIRL (National Tour at Hobby Center)
NOT QUITE THE GREATEST STAR The opening moments of this retelling of the Fanny Brice story has the main character sitting backstage as “ghosts” of former performers circle about her. The real crux here is that there is only one formidable missing “ghost’ that truly matters. That ghost being the legendary Barbra Streisand, who has…
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Theater Review: MJ (National Tour at The National Theatre, D.C.)
A TRIP THROUGH MICHAEL JACKSON’S TRIPPY LIFE For those who never had the chance to see Michael Jackson perform live, MJ — the current smash-hit Broadway jukebox musical now on tour at The National Theater — thrillingly brings his spirit and talent back to life. Jamaal Fields-Green as ‘MJ’ and the cast of the MJ First…
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Theater Review: RACHEL BLOOM: DEATH, LET ME DO MY SHOW (Steppenwolf in Chicago)
RACHEL BLOOMS IN DEATH Rachel Bloom, the co-creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, gives a hilarious and vulnerable performance in her raunchy and irreverent one-woman musical comedy Death, Let Me Do My Show directed by Seth Barrish. This show comes to Steppenwolf after a multi-city tour and a sold-out Off-Broadway run in September of 2023….
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Theater Review: MAMMA MIA! (25th Anniversary Tour at The Kennedy Center Opera House)
THE CAMPY ABBA FEST IS BACK Still an over-the-top, campy, family-friendly entertainment, the 25th Anniversary North American tour of Mamma Mia!, currently at The Kennedy Center Opera House, is the feel-good, powerhouse musical romantic comedy that will thrill ABBA fans. Jalynn Steele (Tanya), Christine Sherrill (Donna), Carly Sakolove (Rosie) For those unfamiliar with the plot,…
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