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  • New York Opera Review: AGRIPPINA (The Met)

    By Caroline Cao | February 26, 2020
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    GRIPPING AGRIPPINA For a political comedy littered with slapstick, it’s fittingly ironic that this newest Met Opera take on Agrippina opens and bookends with morbidity: All the main players are perched on tombs bearing their names. This adaptation of Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie’s production occurs during the tricentennial of George Frideric Handel’s music and…

  • Theater Review: THE BOOK OF MORON (Tour)

    By Lawrence Bommer | February 26, 2020
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    STAND-UP MEETS SELF-HELP It’s a singular solo show: Creator of The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron, satirist Robert Dubac now delivers Book of Moron, an 85-minute riff on reality and all its threats. Delivering rapid-fire, hit-and-run observations about contemporary consciousness, this driven lecturer imagines himself coming out of the coma of everyday existence to embark on…

  • Opera Review: ROBERTO DEVEREUX (LA Opera)

    By Monya De | February 26, 2020
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    DEVERSTATING It was the middle-child opera of the season; not like the world-premiere Eurydice or the must-see Ring Cycle. Roberto Devereux is a lesser-known Donizetti confection, and erstwhile Artistic Director Plácido Domingo was set to hot-ticket this tale of Queen Elizabeth and her lover Essex that likely hasn’t been an opera question on Jeopardy! Except…

  • Music Review: ESA-PEKKA SALONEN AND JULIA BULLOCK (San Francisco Symphony at Davies Hall)

    By Harvey Perr | February 26, 2020
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    ESA-PEKKA SALONEN AND JULIA BULLOCK The opening notes of Steven Stucky’s transcription of Henry Purcell’s Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, memorably mournful, set the elegiac tone for last weekend’s San Francisco Symphony concert at Davies Hall. In ten short minutes, a quietly solemn mood was eloquently created, under the sympathetic conducting of Essa-Pekka…

  • Theater Review: SHE LOVES ME (San Diego Musical Theatre at Horton Grand Theatre)

    By Milo Shapiro | February 25, 2020
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    SHE LOVES ME:AND WITH GOOD REASON! Ah, love. As hard to find as ever, but so satisfying when it is. But what did the ancients (20th-century people) do to find love before Tinder, eHarmony, and the like? Joe Masteroff’s book takes us to the simpler days of Lonely Hearts Clubs, when people exchanged letters (on…

  • Theater Review: DEX & ABBY (Pride Films and Plays)

    By Lawrence Bommer | February 25, 2020
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    PUPS ‘N’ STUFF MAKES A DOGGONE DRAMA “Love me, love my dog. [Then I’ll love you:}” That’s the operating assumption between Dex & Abby, a cross-species comedy/love play. At 130 minutes of industrial-strength sentimentality, this Chicago premiere from Pride Films and Plays will test your tolerance for anthropomorphized antics. It’s the feel-good story of comfort…

  • Theater Review: HUMAN INTEREST STORY (Fountain)

    By Tony Frankel | February 24, 2020
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    HERE’S SOMETHING THAT WILL INTEREST YOU This is the second show this year in L.A. to take head-on the insanity of modern journalism (the insanity being that while newspapers deliver so-called news, they gotta make a buck, so sensationalism often wins out [ask Hearst], but now we have the interenet to contend with, where any…

  • Theater Review: FOUND (IAMA Theatre Company)

    By Marc Wheeler | February 24, 2020
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    LOST … AND FOUND Found: A New Musical is determined to find its way. After a run off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company in 2014, this reworked West Coast premiere —   now playing at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in Downtown L.A., stumbles through its first act with vague ambitions, disconnection, and cloying clichés, only…

  • Entertainment Feature: FIVE-STAR RATED SLOTS: HOW CASINOS USE RATINGS

    By John Todd | February 23, 2020
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    FIVE-STAR RATED SLOTS: HOW CASINOS USE RATINGS In traditional casinos, players will be rated based on how they play. This is a way casinos get patrons to come back every time. The higher your rating is the more access to games and prizes you have. This can also happen in online casinos, but in most…

  • Theater Review: FRANKENSTEIN (Four Larks & Wallis)

    By Marc Wheeler | February 22, 2020
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    MONSTER MASH In an effort to strip away the centuries, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has gone under the knife. Revitalizing the 200-year-old classic is the Beverly Hills-based performing arts center, The Wallis, which has commissioned a reimagining by Four Larks, an innovative L.A.-based theater company known for their interdisciplinary stylings. In this intimate world premiere production…

  • Theater Review: REVENGE SONG (Geffen Playhouse)

    By Tony Frankel | February 21, 2020
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    IT’S THE HIGH SCHOOL SHOW THAT I WISH I WROTE IN HIGH SCHOOL The thing that looks like a high school vanity project at the Geffen Playhouse is actually a world premiere with a lot of bucks behind it. While I certainly appreciate that Qui Nguyen of the self-described “geek” theater company Vampire Cowboys in…

  • Theater Review: THE BOOK OF MORMON (Tour)

    By Tony Frankel | February 20, 2020
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    I CAN ALWAYS USE MORE MEN Well, here’s a national tour that isn’t resting on its laurels. Somewhat tighter with impeccably glorious performances, a golden angel high above at the center of a light-filled proscenium arch seems to trumpet, The Book of Mormon is here to douse your doldrums with a delirious, dandy delight. It…

  • Theater Review: HERE WE GO and THIS IS A CHAIR (Inkblot “C” of Open Fist Theatre’s Rorschach Festival)

    By Tony Frankel | February 20, 2020
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    CARYL ME HOME When the author is famed English playwright Caryl Churchill, theater about death and life’s surmounting surrealism isn’t depressing at all; it’s exhilarating. The author of Cloud Nine, Owners and Top Girls has written many short works as well, and right now two great one-acts are being given a minor production by Open…

  • Theater Review: KILL MOVE PARADISE (TimeLine)

    By Lawrence Bommer | February 20, 2020
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    POSTHUMOUS EMANCIPATION The painful premise behind Kill Move Paradise is that there’s no justice on this side of the grave. So author James Ijames goes to the other side. He creates a kind of Elysian Fields for four young black men cut down wrongly and early. It’s up to this 2017 valedictory, inspired by the…

  • Theater Review: BORN IN EAST BERLIN (SF Playhouse)

    By Harvey Perr | February 19, 2020
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    REBIRTH Which walls are worse? Those that keep people out or those that keep people in? Playwright Rogelio Martinez seemed to have this question in mind when he wrote Born in East Berlin, which is being given its world premiere at the Creativity Theater thanks to San Francisco Playhouse’s Sandbox Series, and it is this…

  • Theater Review: IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU (Musical Theatre Guild at the Alex Theatre in Glendale)

    By Barry Creyton | February 18, 2020
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    YOU SHOULDA BEEN THERE Happy ever after is the stuff of fairy tales – yet, happy ever after is how we in the audience left the Alex Theatre on Sunday night. The show was It Shoulda Been You which enjoyed a respectable if modest run on Broadway in 2015. The New York critics, perhaps unused…

  • Theater Review: GRAVEYARD SHIFT (Goodman)

    By Lawrence Bommer | February 17, 2020
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    APPROXIMATING AN ATROCITY It’s an evil not to be exorcised. As the excellent HBO documentary My Name Is Sandra Bland showed, a tragedy resonates — Bland was found hanged in a prison cell in Prairie View, Texas, the dump-of-a-city to which she returned for an exciting administrative teaching position. A popular poster of videos (“Good…

  • Music Review: THIBAUDET & SAINT-SAí‹NS (Fabien Gabel conducting SF Symphony at Davies Hall)

    By Harvey Perr | February 17, 2020
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    THIBAUDET & SAINT-SAí‹NS As befits a Valentine’s Day weekend, the San Francisco Symphony whipped up an evening of lush romanticism that was designed to leave its audience swooning. Under the elegant and intensely felt direction of the distinguished French conductor, Fabian Gabel, making a spectacular debut with the SFS, the first half of the evening…

  • Theater Review: THE $5 SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (The 6th Act at Theatre 68 in North Hollywood)

    By Marc Wheeler | February 16, 2020
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    LIFE IMITATETH ART In Christopher Guest’s brilliant 1996 mockumentary Waiting For Guffman, the smalltown residents of Blaine, MO, come together to put on a show. But what if instead the residents in the film made the movie themselves? That’s the level of ironic self-unawareness permeating The $5 Shakespeare Company, a woeful work by Matthew Leavitt…

  • Theater Feature: THEMES OF GAMBLING IN FAMOUS PLAYS

    By Frank Arthur | February 15, 2020
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    THEMES OF GAMBLING IN FAMOUS PLAYS A play (theatre) is an elitist form of art that explores human nature. It reflects what life is all about. Plays are important in society for many reasons. They shape opinions and suggest solutions to societal problems. They also explore controversial topics like gambling and sports betting. Many of…

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