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Opera Review: DEAD MAN WALKING (Lyric Chicago)
DEAD MAN SINGING Lyric Opera doesn’t put on many contemporary operas, at least not like the Windy City’s edgier companies Chicago Fringe Opera and Thompson Street Opera. And that’s not a criticism. But when Lyric Opera does go contemporary, it goes boldly, with big, splashy productions — and Dead Man Walking has got an excellent…
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Music Review: GARRICK OHLSSON IN RECITAL (The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
GARRIFIC It’s been almost a half-century since Garrick Ohlsson won the International Frédéric Chopin Competition in Warsaw, so I attended his recital at The Wallis in Beverly Hills last Friday with a bit of trepidation. And seeing his large frame in person, I wondered at first that he should be hauling the piano not playing…
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Theater Review: THE GOODBYE GIRL (Musical Theatre Guild at the Alex Theatre in Glendale)
HELLO TO GOODBYE The Musical Theatre Guild should be proud of this fine, coherent, splendidly cast reading of The Goodbye Girl, with principals Wendy Rosoff and Will Collyer charismatically suited to their characters, in great voice, and as a couple, exuding all the essential romantic chemistry. After a mere twenty-five hours rehearsal, and with only…
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Theater Review: EIGHT NIGHTS (Antaeus Theatre Company in Glendale)
OY VEY A barrage of human suffering — anti-Semitism, racism, anti-Muslim hostility, misogyny, LGBT closets, slavery, Japanese-American internment camps, miscarriages, PTSD, death, and a literal onstage kitchen sink — are given the holiday treatment in Jennifer Maisel’s Hanukkah-inspired Eight Nights. Highlighting eight not-so-festive nights over eight decades in the life of Holocaust survivor Rebecca Blum,…
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CD Review: UNTETHERED (The Complete Song Cycles of Valerie Saalbach; Soprano Elyse Anne Kakacek)
UNTETHERED AND TETHERED AT THE SAME TIME Beautiful, fascinating and moving, yet strangely and sometimes gratingly one-note, Valerie Saalbach’s three wholly modern song cycles get a bravura treatment from American soprano Elyse Anne Kakacek on True Capture Records, a new label. The trio of poets Saalbach used as her lyricists are Emily Dickenson, Elizabeth Barrett…
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Theater Review: PACKING (About Face Theatre at Theater Wit in Chicago)
PICKED, PECKED, AND PACKED Some solo shows can be valued simply for their superb simulations of someone else’s story. Others succeed because we pay extra special attention when the chronicler actually experienced what they’re sharing. Packing, an About Face Theatre world premiere by and from Chicago theater artist Scott Bradley, has the best of both…
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Theater Interview: JUSTIN SAYRE (writer and star of RAVENSWOOD MANOR at the Celebration Theatre)
MIND YOUR MANOR Now camping through November 24 is Ravenswood Manor, a much-needed send-up of all things soap, perhaps even the one you dropped in the shower. You never know with funnyman Justin Sayre, writer of this brand-new series with “wood” and “man” in the title. Think chunks of Dark Shadows sprinkled with even more…
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Theater Review: MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET: A LIVE MUSICAL RADIO PLAY (Actors Co-op in Hollywood)
MIRACLE ON NORTH GOWER STREET If you’re in need of a miracle, look no further than the Los Angeles premiere of Lance Arthur Smith‘s new adaptation of Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Musical Radio Play presented by Actors Co-op at the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. Based on the Lux Radio Theatre broadcast and…
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Film Feature: 5 BEST EDUCATIONAL FILMS FOR STUDENTS
5 BEST EDUCATIONAL FILMS FOR STUDENTS When a holiday season is just about the corner, many students, who are happy to forget about a paper writing service they usually take advantage of but still are not willing to stop learning, start looking for effective ways to spend their free time productively. Thoughts like “I need…
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Theater Review: BIG RIVER: THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (Rubicon Theatre in Ventura)
THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI JUST GOT MIGHTIER Do whatever you can. Take a raft, pretend you’re a duke, toss pig blood around your lean-to so everyone thinks you’re dead, but get to Rubicon Theatre in Ventura for what is easily the most satisfying and uplifting musical experience in recent memory. In Big River, adapted from the…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER (Lookingglass)
HE’S BACK ON DUTY It’s now become a holiday classic, Mary Zimmerman’s gorgeous The Steadfast Tin Soldier at Lookingglass Theatre. It was glorious last year. It’s lost no luster since. In only one fantasy-rich hour this superb illusionist, the toast of Lookingglass and Goodman theaters and the Metropolitan Opera, distills all the warm worth out…
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Theater Review: HOODOO LOVE (Raven Theatre in Chicago)
A SHOW THAT CASTS A SPELL Whether it really works or it’s just self-fulfilling wishful thinking, magic can misfire. Detailing a downhome tragedy set in Memphis during the Depression, Hoodoo Love, Katori Hall’s 2007 musical drama tells a sad and simple story of thwarted and twisted passion so strong it needs the blues to chronicle…
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TV Review: BETTER CALL SAUL
BETTER CALL SAUL — POSSIBLY THE BEST SPINOFF EVER Breaking Bad is one of the most iconic TV shows recently. It is hard to find someone, especially a millennial who didn’t watch it and didn’t enjoy the adventures of Walter White and his companion Jesse Pinkman. Breaking Bad dominated a decade and set an example…
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Music Review: DUDAMEL CONDUCTS BRUCKNER (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
LIVE MUSIC IS ALWAYS SUSTENANCE I’m happy to report that Andrew Norman’s Sustain, an LA Phil centennial commission that premiered last year — and saw a second showing last weekend at Disney Hall — is far more agreeable than much of the atmospheric “new” music these days, and a much more promising avenue for this…
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Theater Review: THE LAST FIVE YEARS (Cygnet Theatre Company in San Diego)
TWO WAY STREET INTERSECTS AT TOUCHING PERSONAL DRAMA The Last Five Years shares the joys, trials, and failures of two people, Jamie (Michael Louis Cusimano) and Cathy (Racquel Williams), in their deeply-loving relationship. At first, it might seem like they are in two different relationships, almost schizophrenically so, because the songs they sing (and virtually…
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Theater Review: THE OTHER CINDERELLA (Black Ensemble Theater in Chicago)
IT WOULD BE A CIN TO MISS THIS Forty-three years ago, the Black Ensemble Theater produced their first and most definitive musical, a promissory note that’s been richly redeemed over five decades. Just as The Wiz opened up a childhood classic to even more make-believe, in 1976 –and now–The Other Cinderella represented playful revisionism in action. Created, composed…
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