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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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Theater Review: BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (National Tour)
BACK TO THE FUTURE NEEDS TO GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD The Broadway tour of Back to the Future, a musical adaptation of the beloved film, has landed at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace as part of a national tour. Directed by John Rando, it is visually marvelous and otherwise totally unmemorable. This is a theatre…
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Theater Review: CLUE (National Tour at the Ahmanson Theatre)
CLUELESS NO MORE As a kid, I never played the Hasbro board game Clue, nor did I ever see the Paramount Pictures movie based on that board game. But at opening night on July 31, I was absolutely wowed by the sensational national touring production of Clue at The Ahmanson Theatre, on stage through August…
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Theater Review: PETER PAN (National Tour)
HAPPILY EVER EVER IN THE LAND OF NEVER NEVER There have been so many versions of Peter Pan over the years that current viewers might have been exposed to the character in numerous ways. Granted, it’s not too likely that anyone today got to see J.M. Barrie’s original 1904 London staging of his play about…
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Theater Review: COMPANY (2023-2024 North American Tour)
THE COMPANY WE KEEP To wed or not to wed — that is the question that Stephen Sondheim poses in his 1970 musical Company, for which he is the composer and lyricist (with a book by George Furth). James Earl Jones II as Harry, Kathryn Allison as Sarah, Britney Coleman as Bobbie and Judy McLane…
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Theater Review: CLUE (National Tour)
MURDEROUS LAUGHTER In 1945, “Cluedo” first came on the scene in the United Kingdom to the delight of board game lovers. Created by game designer Anthony E. Pratt, this beloved family friend board game, better known as “Clue” in the United States, has been a staple in the American zeitgeist for over half a century….
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Theater Review: THE BEST MAN SHOW (Hollywood and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals)
THE WORST BEST MAN MAKES THE BEST MAN SHOW A GUARANTEED WINNER We’re attending a wedding. Every viewer in the audience is an attendee. The vows have already been exchanged, and now it’s time for the groom’s brother — his best man — to give the customary speech. Charming and truthful but filled with toxicity…
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Highly Recommended Dance: SMUIN CONTEMPORARY BALLET (The Joyce in NYC)
SMUIN IS A SHOO-IN Celebrating its 30th anniversary, San Francisco-based Smuin Contemporary Ballet returns to The Joyce with a triple bill of original commissions each making their New York premiere through Sunday. The engagement will be the Company’s ninth at the Joyce and first since 2012. The program will include the New York premiere of Val Caniparoli’s…
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Theater Review: FUNNY GIRL (National Tour at Kennedy Center)
KATERINA MCCRIMMON IS INDEED THE GREATEST STAR Funny Girl is a beloved musical that first premiered on Broadway in 1964, with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill, and a book by Isobel Lennart. The original production starred Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice, a role that catapulted her to stardom and earned her critical…
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Theater Review: MRS. DOUBTFIRE THE MUSICAL (National Tour at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco)
MRS. DOUBTFIRE IN GOOD HANDS WITH ROB McCLURE In Mrs. Doubtfire The Musical, a familiar San Francisco-based plot meets with the Tony-nominated actor Rob McClure, who makes Robin Williams’ classic ‘drag’ character come to life in an entirely new way. But the road from the 1987 Anne Fine novel that inspired the franchise on its…
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Theater Review: FEMMINA SUPER (Broadwater Main Stage at the Hollywood Fringe Festival)
SUPER FEMMINA SUPER To say that I was fascinated with Femmina Super is an understatement. The show is subtitled, “A New Opera,” which normally has me running in the other direction, as newer operas tend to be atonal and opaque and pretentious. Writer-composer-performer Bethany Hill offers just the opposite. I fear that subtitle may scare…
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Theater Review: THE KITE RUNNER (National Tour at The Kennedy Center in D.C.)
THE KITE RUNNER FLIES HIGH AT THE KENNEDY CENTER Because the best-selling novel The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, is so significant and well-revered, as is the 2007 movie screenplay by David Benioff, my expectations were high at last night’s opening to see the stage version, currently on a national tour at The Kennedy Center’s…
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Off-Broadway Review: DARK NOON (St. Ann’s Warehouse)
THE NOT-SO-GOOD, THE BAD AND THE REALLY REALLY UGLY What better way to get a fresh perspective of our American West than by attending a 300-year history reenactment in 100 minutes? Written and directed by the acclaimed Danish director Tue Biering, with Nhlanhla Mahlangu as his co-director and choreographer, and performed by seven South African…
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Theater Review: THE KITE RUNNER (National Tour)
A KITE THIS BIG DOESN’T ALWAYS TAKE OFF; WHEN IT DOES, THIS STAGE ADAPTATION IS WORTH SEEING Directed by Giles Croft, the touring production of The Kite Runner at CIBC Theatre is an intensely human piece of theatre perhaps better suited for a more intimate venue. Based on the best-selling book by Khaled Hosseini, the…
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