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Theater Review: THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (City Lit in Chicago)
THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME Terry McCabe, artistic director of City Lit Theater, knows Sherlock Holmes and his shadow sleuth Dr. Watson almost as well as author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His adaptations of their adventures combine storytelling urgency and narrative drive with crime solving at a perfect fever. Ever at…
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Jazz Review: CHICK COREA TRILOGY W/ CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE & BRIAN BLADE (CAP UCLA at Royce Hall)
TRILLIANT The first time I saw Chick Corea play was at Disneyland on the Tomorrowland Stage in the mid-1970s. I was entranced watching the solo pianist with brown afro and mustache, as he was offering a type of jazz I had never heard before. My upbringing consisted of mostly big band and swing, so when…
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Theater Review: LERNER AND LOEWE’S GREATEST HITS (Music Theater Works)
WELL, LERNER & LOEWE ME DOWN Seldom has a dream team had a shorter span: It was all over in only 13 years. But between 1947 and 1960 Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Loewe ran a glorious gamut. It happened both on Broadway and in Hollywood transfers of five very different successes. The powerful partnership…
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Film Review: JOKER (directed by by Todd Phillips)
A FILM THAT’S NOT JOKING AROUND Joker, directed and co-written by Todd Phillips and Scott Silver, is a dark, disturbing, profound film that has tapped into the zeitgeist of today’s class divides with a vengeance. This is not a comic book movie, although DC Films is one of the production companies. In this prequel, Joaquin…
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Jazz & Concert Review: 62ND MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL 2019
OH, WHAT A WEEKEND! A good friend who invited me to join him at this year’s Monterey Jazz Festival bailed at the last minute, citing that the line-up just wasn’t that exciting. Since he was to be the planner, and this was my first MJF, I felt a little awkward as to choosing which of…
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Chicago Opera Review: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (Lyric Opera)
A SHEER DELIGHT; A CUT ABOVE Opening night of the season is typically an opportunity to enjoy some people watching on the red carpet, a classic, accessible, and not-too-serious opera, and an early night (since the opera starts at 6pm). Gioachino Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) delivered superbly on all three counts, despite the…
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Bay Area Theater Review: THE GREAT WAVE (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)
A TINY DROP Given the storyline, it’s remarkable how the urgency is more than diluted in The Great Wave, Francis Turnly’s play about a teenage Japanese girl who disappears one night when she is presumably washed out to sea by an enormous wave. Sadly, Mr. Turnly compounds his story with hackneyed dialogue, American vernacular (“my…
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Theater Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (Pasadena Playhouse)
A GREEN NEW DEAL As Little Shop of Horrors teaches us: sometimes you just need fresh blood. In that vein, the Pasadena Playhouse more than delivers. Their audacious revival of the quirky cult classic – directed with exemplary vision by Mike Donahue – offers audiences something they may not have realized they craved. In this…
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Theater Review: BARNUM (Musical Theatre Guild at the Alex Theatre in Glendale)
I LIKE YOUR STYLE P. T. Barnum claimed there’s a sucker born every minute, but composers like Cy Coleman come along only once in a lifetime. His vigorous score was in the capable hands of musical director Jan Roper for Musical Theatre Guild’s staged reading of Barnum at the Alex Theater. Score, book and lyrics…
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Theater Review: NEVER IS NOW (Skylight Theatre in Los Angeles)
NEVER TAKE FOR GRANTED THE PHRASE “NEVER AGAIN” Wendy Kout, the playwright of Never Is Now asks the question, “What happens when people from diverse backgrounds experience the firsthand accounts of ten survivors who were labeled ‘undesirable’ and thrust into Hitler’s systematic genocide?” She shows us exactly what happens in a very powerful, emotional and…
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Theater Review: TOP GIRLS (A.C.T. in San Francisco)
YOU’RE THE TOP, GIRLS For the most part, Joyce, a working class Englishwoman in Ipswich is not a sympathetic or likeable person: She is annoyed by her teenage daughter Angie (who admittedly is belligerent and daft), and begrudging toward her sister, Marlene, whom she views as a ball-busting, career-driven, selfish, soulless abandoner (not that there…
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SLOTS GAMES FROM ACROSS THE WORLD
SLOTS GAMES FROM ACROSS THE WORLD Slot machines differ from country to country. However, it is more with regards to their look than how the slots function. Each country’s slots carry a little bit of their culture with them. Slots can be used to expose players to not only different parts of the world but…
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Theater Review: A PLAY IS A POEM (World Premiere by Ethan Coen at the Mark Taper in Los Angeles)
SHOWTIME AT THE VANITIES Ethan Coen’s A Play Is a Poem at the Mark Taper Forum strikes me as neither a poem, nor, strictly speaking, theater. I don’t know what it is. For the most part the five short playlets come across as sketches — and not in a good way. Coen attempts to project…
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Theater Review: BERNHARDT/HAMLET (Goodman Theatre in Chicago)
TO BE OR NOT TO BE SARAH BERNHARDT Well, with “Bernhardt” and “Hamlet” sharing the marquee, Goodman Theatre’s season-opener must be larger than life if not literature. Sprawling and stuffed at 150 minutes, Theresa Rebeck’s multi-focused 2018 drama Bernhardt/Hamlet takes a quizzical look at a bizarre chapter of theater lore. We’re witness to the sensation-seeking choice of…
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Theater Review: HELLO AGAIN (Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre in Evanston)
A MUSICAL CIRCLE JERK You could call it a daisy chain of horizontal encounters, this chronicle of sexual partisans whose sleeping around creates a sort of chain letter of lust. A ton of talent reduced to silly shenanigans — a miscalculation dogs director/choreographer Brenda Didier’s revival of Hello Again, Michael John LaChiusa’s 1993 musical trivialization of…
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Theater Review: THE KING’S SPEECH (The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare)
MY FAIR MONARCH We love levelling. Mark Twain’s prince and the pauper, Queen Victoria and her Scottish and Indian boyfriends, Queen Anne and her favorites, a British schoolteacher and the King of Siam, King George III and his equally mad doctors — these equalizing polarities keep history real. Add to these opposites that attract another…
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Opera Review: ROMEO AND JULIET {ROMÉO ET JULIETTE} (San Francisco Opera)
VERONA: FAIR; ROMEO AND JULIET: KILLER First performed in its inaugural season of 1923, San Francisco Opera begins its 97th season with a production new to SFO of Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette (Romeo and Juliet), an adaptation of Shakespeare’s timeless tale. One of the French composer’s finest works, and an excellent example of French…
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Theater Review: OSLO (TimeLine Theatre at Broadway Playhouse in Chicago)
DANCE OF DIPLOMACY Clandestine and volatile, high-stakes diplomacy can be as taut as any courtroom drama. It’s hard to imagine a story more intrinsically theatrical than the real-life crises and complications that transform Oslo into a foreign-affairs thriller. Now at the Broadway Playhouse in a crackling collaboration between TimeLine Theatre Company and Broadway in Chicago, it’s history…
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Opera Review: LA BOHÈME (LA Opera)
A LOW RENT BOHÈME It’s hard to go wrong (in general) with Giacomo Puccini’s 1896 opera—a relatively light tragedy buoyed with easy-to-love characters, provocative music, and a lot of humor. The latest production that opened LA Opera’s 2019/2020 season manages somehow to offer a production that left me dry-eyed at the end, which never happened…
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DVD Review: THE TEAM (Season One, MHz Releasing)
ON THE SAME TEAM When countries cooperate in art, it can make a huge difference in the joint quality of the work. Such is the strength behind a superior television series, The Team, a soft title for such a hard-driven police-procedure eight-episode package. Tightly written (mainly by Mai Brostrøm and Peter Thorsboe) and impeccably directed…
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