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Theater Review: DEX & ABBY (Pride Films and Plays)
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…
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Theater Review: HUMAN INTEREST STORY (Fountain)
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…
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Theater Review: FOUND (IAMA Theatre Company)
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…
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Theater Review: FRANKENSTEIN (Four Larks & Wallis)
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…
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Theater Review: REVENGE SONG (Geffen Playhouse)
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…
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Theater Review: THE BOOK OF MORMON (Tour)
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…
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Theater Review: HERE WE GO and THIS IS A CHAIR (Inkblot “C” of Open Fist Theatre’s Rorschach Festival)
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…
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Theater Review: KILL MOVE PARADISE (TimeLine)
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…
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Theater Review: BORN IN EAST BERLIN (SF Playhouse)
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…
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Theater Review: IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU (Musical Theatre Guild at the Alex Theatre in Glendale)
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…
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Theater Review: GRAVEYARD SHIFT (Goodman)
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…
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Music Review: THIBAUDET & SAINT-SAí‹NS (Fabien Gabel conducting SF Symphony at Davies Hall)
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…
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Theater Review: THE $5 SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (The 6th Act at Theatre 68 in North Hollywood)
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…
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Theater Feature: THEMES OF GAMBLING IN FAMOUS PLAYS
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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Theater Extra: THE GAMBLING HABITS OF VARIOUS ACTORS AND PLAYWRIGHTS
The Gambling Habits Of Various Actors And Playwrights Gambling has been a form of entertainment since the beginning of time. People from all lifestyles and income levels enjoy it. But gambling addiction is one of the biggest problems that affect celebrities. Some celebrities have ended up gambling all their fortunes away, while others have become…
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Music Extra: MANDOPOP SINGER AND ACTOR JAY CHOU’S GAMBLING HABITS
MANDOPOP SINGER AND ACTOR JAY CHOU’S GAMBLING HABITS Jay Chou is a popular Taiwanese known for several Mandopop hits. Born in 1979 in Taiwan, he is arguably the most celebrated musician in the country and on the mainland of China. The media describes Chou as a music genius. Chou released his first album in November…
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Theater Review: THE FATHER (Pasadena Playhouse)
PAPA, CAN YOU HEAR ME? Every once in a while a play reminds us what – and how exciting – theater can be. In The Father (Le Père), French playwright Florian Zeller doesn’t just present a man with dementia, he makes us feel as if we have it, too. Electrifying Southern California with Zeller’s genius…
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Theater Review: GATZ (Berkeley Rep)
GREAT F. SCOTT! If you love literature, have fond memories of being read to or of reading to others, and feel, as so many do, that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is in the Pantheon of Great American Novels, and you also have an appetite for ambitious or unusual theater projects and, in particular,…
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Theater Review: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL (National Tour)
DISCO’S ONCE AND FUTURE DIVA As the song says, “Dim All The Lights” — or set them to scorching splendor. Anyway, the giant mirror ball is back, scintillating and scattering flecks of light throughout the Nederlander Theater. The ensemble is gallivanting in sequin suits and skirts. The song is “Last Dance,” the final exaltation in…
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Theater Review: FUN HOME (Chance Theater)
TAKE A CHANCE WITH FUN When a newly “out” lesbian learns her closeted father has taken his life mere months after revealing to him her sexuality, she has a lot to process. Being an artist, she attempts to make sense of her trauma through storytelling – that’s the power of art. More specifically, that’s the…
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