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Theater Review: CARMELA FULL OF WISHES (Chicago Children’s Theatre)
FAMILY FUN WITH A LATIN FLAIR Just in time for spring, the Chicago Children’s Theatre is back in bloom. Returning to live, in-person productions, Carmela Full of Wishes is a charming tale about the importance of imagination. Adapted for the stage by Alvaro Saar Rios from the children’s book by Matt de la Pena with illustrations by…
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Theater Review: MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (North American Tour)
SPECTACULAR! SPECTACULAR! If a high-kicking, visually spellbinding, toe-tapping night out is what you love in entertainment, have I got just the show for you. Even though the original opening night was delayed a bit by a partial cast-wide Covid-19 outbreak, everyone is now back, healthy and bringing their A+ game eight shows a week at…
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Opera Review: ROMÉO & JULIETTE (San Diego Opera)
RISING STAR PENE PATI SHINES AS ROMÉO There are about two dozen operas based on Romeo & Juliet. Gounod’s version is the only one that has remained in the standard repertory. Pene Pati is Romeo and Nicolle Cabell is Juliette When Gounod had the idea of starting Roméo et Julietta in 1867 he’d already had…
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Broadway Review: BIRTHDAY CANDLES (Roundabout at American Airlines Theater)
TASTY BIRTHDAY CAKE NEEDS MORE LAYERS In playwright Noah Haidle’s new play Birthday Candles, currently running at the American Airlines Theatre, television star Debra Messing ages before our very eyes. When she first enters the stage, Ms. Messing is 17. Then she’s 18. Then she’s 38. We know that because it is in the dialogue….
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Broadway Review: THE MINUTES (Studio 54)
THE MINUTES WILL LEAVE YOU SLACK-JAWED AND SPEECHLESS Superbly civic, the vast council chamber created by set designer David Zinn reeks of rectitude. Filling the stage at Studio 54 is a coffered arched ceiling with hanging strips of fluorescent lights. In the hallway outside this imposing space is a bulletin board with children’s art, while…
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Broadway Review: THE LITTLE PRINCE (The Broadway Theatre)
NOT SO LITTLE ANYMORE Once upon a time there was an aviator. One day, the aviator’s plane crash landed in the Sahara Desert. The aviator survived but his plane was damaged. After landing, the aviator soon met a little prince from another planet — a planet so small it only held a rose, some shrubs,…
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Off-Broadway Review: CYRANO DE BERGERAC (BAM Harvey Theatre in Brooklyn)
GLORIOUS LANGUAGE AND A KISS TO REMEMBER Cyrano de Bergerac may be the most romantic, tragic love story to withstand the test of time. (Romeo & Juliet drops in comparison.) Written in 1897, Edmond Rostand’s classic play follows the unrequited love of Cyrano (James McAvoy) for his childhood friend, Roxane (Evelyn Miller). At the end…
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Theater Review: THE PROM (North American Tour)
TOE-TAPPING TUNES MAKE THE SHOW Dust off the Mylar balloons and wrist corsages Chicago, you only have one week to attend The Prom as part of its national tour. No smelly gymnasium or dated themes required, this prom is full of high energy dance numbers and a litany of toe-tapping tunes that will stay knocking around your head long after leaving the…
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Extras: HOW TO COME UP WITH UNIQUE IDEAS FOR SHORT MOVIE
How to Come Up With Unique Ideas for Short Movie Allowing your creative side to shine through can be extremely rewarding. If you are one of the millions of people that grew up watching the iconic films of the last few decades, then you might have a desire to create a film of your own….
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First Look: WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (Geffen)
ALBEE DAMNED Previews begin tonight at The Geffen Playhouse for Edward Albee’s most famous and most vicious masterpiece Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? George and Martha, the American theater’s most notoriously dysfunctional couple, have invited the young and naïve Nick and Honey over for drinks. What begins as harmless patter escalates to outright marital warfare, with the…
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Off-Broadway Review: HARMONY (Edmond J. Safra Hall at the Museum of Jewish Heritage)
PUT YOURSELF IN HARMONY‘S WAY I can’t remember the last time I have been so entranced with a new musical. And while Harmony may be having its New York premiere in the Off-Broadway house that brought us the Yiddish version of Fiddler on the Roof, I’ll eat my kishkes if this winner doesn’t go to…
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Opera Tour Review: EDEN (Joyce DiDonato)
SPRING IN BLOOM WITH JOYCE DiDONATO Spreading a message of harmony, love and environmental consciousness through opera, American lyric-coloratura mezzo-soprano, Joyce DiDonato, triumphantly returned to the stage of the Harris Theater with her new project, EDEN, Saturday evening. The three-time Grammy Award and 2018 Olivier Award winner for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, brought a haunting presence…
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Theater Review: GOOD NIGHT, OSCAR (Goodman Theatre)
HAYES’S HARRIED HIT “It’d be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view.” The incomparable Oscar Levant is the subject of the latest premiere production at the Goodman Theatre. If you are not that familiar with Levant, don’t fret, by the end of the show,…
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Theater Review: WINNIE THE POOH: THE NEW MUSICAL STAGE ADAPTION (Mercury Theater Chicago)
A WINNING WINNIE Just in time to join in  the  celebration of  the  95th anniversary of  the  beloved children’s character,  the  Mercury  Theater is making a bold and commemorative move on its mainstage. Never before have  they put a children’s show in  their regular rotation. After wonderfully received post-pandemic, yet more traditional productions, including  Sister Act  and  Women of Soul, is  their gamble worth it? Of course! Disney’s  Winnie  the  Pooh — The  New…
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Broadway Review: TAKE ME OUT (Second Stage’s Hayes Theater)
PLAY BALL! Get your popcorn and peanuts and Cracker Jack. Grab your Empires pennant and Empires cap and maybe your Empires team jacket. Then head on down to the ballpark or, in this case, the Helen Hayes Theater on Broadway. For inside is now housed a locker room, a dugout, a field of dreams and…
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Music Review: FOCUS ON ANDRIESSEN (LA Phil)
A TRIUMPHANT ANDRIESSEN Dutch-born composer Louis Andriessen worked in numerous styles of musical modernism over the course of a prolific career that began in the 1950s and continued until shortly before his death last summer. In recent years the Los Angeles Philharmonic commissioned and premiered several Andriessen pieces and even issued recordings conducted by orchestra…
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Broadway Review: TINA: THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL)
TINA IS A HEAD-TURNER Two elements are vital to creating a hit bio-musical: great songs and a powerful life story. Tina, The Tina Turner Musical delivers both. Whereas some biographies required that book writers “punch-up” the drama, the true life story of the woman born Anna-Mae Bullock needs no exaggeration as it recounts how a…
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Broadway Review: PLAZA SUITE (Hudson Theater)
IT’S SUITE TO BE BACK AT THE PLAZA A night at the Plaza? With Hollywood royalty? I’m in, how about you? Thus we find three serio-comic tales of love, loss and betrayal all taking place in Suite 719 of New York City’s famed Plaza Hotel. Set in Manhattan of 1968/1969, Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite is…
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Broadway Review: SIX THE MUSICAL (Brooks Atkinson Theatre)
WITH SIX YOU GET POWDER-KEG SOUL What if the six wives of one of history’s bad boys, King Henry VIII, formed a pop girl group and held a concert where they belted out tales of their superstar lives, secret loves and tragic ends? You’d have Six, the hit British import from London’s West End now…
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Theater Review: BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY (Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles)
DOWN IN HARLEM Following the quirky, audacious Slave Play (see review) — the first show of Center Theatre Group’s season at The Taper — the company has done a complete 180 with their production of Pearl Cleage’s 1995 Blues for an Alabama Sky, which opened last night. While Slave Play attempted to turn the conversation…
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