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Dance Review: ACROSS THE POND (Joffrey Ballet at the Auditorium Theatre)
BRITAIN’S BALLET FINDS CHICAGO Springing into the season, the Joffrey Ballet’s current visit to the Auditorium Theatre delivers very welcome art — two world premieres and a Chicago first. Across the Pond, with accompaniment by the Chicago Philharmonic conducted by Scott Speck, proves a stirring showcase for three cutting-edge choreographers. It’s an equal opportunity for…
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Theater Review: TWO DAYS IN COURT: Benet’s THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER and Gilbert and Sullivan’s TRIAL BY JURY (City Lit)
TWIN TRAVESTIES (OF JUSTICE) ARE DOUBLE THE FUN Order in the court! Closing its season with dueling gavels, City Lit Theater offers Two Days in Court in only 90 minutes. Merrily combining Gilbert and Sullivan’s first hit, the “dramatic cantata” Trial by Jury, with Stephen Vincent Benet’s historical romp The Devil and Daniel Webster, it’s a charming…
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Dance Review: GRIMM TALES (Ballet Austin)
BEST WHEN IT’S GRIM GRIMM Born in Austin and now living in New York City, artist Natalie Frank created 75 works based on the stories of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Using gouache and chalk pastel, the images are almost a blend of Marc Chagall and Irving Albright. There’s a delicious, nightmarish, psychologically unsettling quality to…
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Theater Review: JAY JOHNSON: THE TWO AND ONLY (Tour)
THE VOICE BEHIND THE VOICES Ventre Loqui: To speak from the belly. This is the etymology of the word ventriloquism, an art as old as : well, it depends who you ask. For some, there is no older art, as it was the trick of the devil to make the snake appear to speak to…
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Dance Review: THE LITTLE MERMAID (San Francisco Ballet at the War Memorial Opera House)
A BIG LITTLE John Neumeier’s multi-cultural fantastical rendition of Han’s Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid has returned in a beautiful production at the San Francisco Ballet in the War Memorial Opera House. Created in 2005 for the Royal Danish Ballet and revised in Hamburg in 2007, Neumeier includes Andersen as the “Poet” guiding and lamenting…
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CD Review: HOTEL AMOUR (Meow Meow and Thomas Lauderdale)
IF ANYONE CAN CAUSE A PUSSY RIOT… Welcome to the definition of “chanteuse.” The slinky, sexy, performance artist Meow Meow — whose new CD with Pink Martini’s leader and pianist Thomas Lauderdale is instantly classy, lovable, moving, funny, accessible, transportive, and timeless — gives what feels like your own private deliriously fun nightclub act. Hotel…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: SOCRATES (The Public)
SOC ON THIS Perhaps one of the reasons Socrates has become a god-like figure in the world of philosophy is that we know very little about the actual man who existed during the dawn of writing. He kept no diaries and wrote no treatises, yet philosophies attributed to the classical Greek thinker — Socratic Method, Socratic…
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Music Preview: VíKINGUR ÒLAFSSON (Solo Piano at Disney Hall)
AS GOOD AS GOULD While my heart sank to hear that Murray Perahia had to pull out of his recital at Disney Hall this Sunday, April 21, 2019, nothing prepared me for the fantastic news that pianist Víkingur í“lafsson will replace him with a program of mostly Bach with some Glass (Perahia will return as…
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Theater Review: SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (The Soraya in Northridge and The La Mirada Theatre)
LET THE GOOD TIMES POUR When people say a musical is old-fashioned they usually mean it in a negative way, which is silly. There are bad, good, and brilliant musicals, and Singin’ in the Rain is brilliant. The stage version of Singin’ in the Rain was adapted from the 1952 MGM movie written by Betty Comden…
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Theater Review: FALSETTOS (National Tour)
NOT ONE FALSE NOTE The musical masterpiece Falsettos follows Marvin, an appealing, brainy, anxious, obsessive, wealthy Jewish gay man who struggles to create a tight-knit family out of his eclectic array of core relationships: an ex-wife, new boyfriend, adolescent son, psychiatrist, and “neighbors who are lesbians from next door.” Amidst a series of monumental life changes…
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Theater Review: EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED (Ensemble Theatre Company in Santa Barbara)
SOME, NOT ALL, IS ILLUMINATED Sadly, not everything is illuminated in British playwright Simon Block’s fascinating but problematic adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s best-selling novel about a young American writer who hires a Ukrainian translator to take him to the town where a woman named Augustine saved his grandfather’s life in WWII. Or so Jonathan…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS (Pasadena Playhouse)
CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE THEATER Well, there certainly is nothing wrong with good advice. And there’s plenty of that in the structurally unconventional Tiny Beautiful Things, Nia Vardalos’s stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s epistolary best-selling book which, in the incarnation at Pasadena Playhouse starring Vardalos herself, feels like a warm little hug when it could…
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Chicago Theater Review: HANNAH AND MARTIN (Shattered Globe Theatre at Theater Wit)
CAN LOVE ENABLE EVIL? There is no last supper or cross on Golgotha but, yes, Hannah and Martin is a true passion play. What makes this even stranger is that it’s as much about clashing ideologies as characters in conflict. Both pile-driving and even-handed, it presents a true-life struggle between famous lover-thinkers caught up in the ugliness…
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Chicago Theater Review: A CHORUS LINE (Porchlight)
GOTTA DANCE! Now 44 years old, which means that a third generation of hoofers is now recreating it, A Chorus Line remains the late Michael Bennett’s breakthrough backstage musical, winner of nine Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize. In this show before a show, the parts — 17 dancers auditioning for a Broadway outing — outweigh…
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Chicago Theater Review: CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND (Victory Gardens)
HATE VS. MUSIC It’s impossible to grasp a monster evil like genocide as a whole, to weigh it as so many calculable, tangible acts of human failure that yield a vast vileness and a terrible waste. To hold it hard, it has to be broken down into the choices and values of flawed or heroic…
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Music Review: MIRGA LEADS TCHAIKOVSKY & DEBUSSY (LA Phil)
MIRGA DESERVES THE HEADLINE, BUT PATRICIA STEALS THE SHOW Here’s how it starts: Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja — born in Moldova, trained in Vienna — saunters onstage at Disney Hall as if she’s headed to the beach; she wears a comfy lived-in black outfit that says “flea market” more than “concert hall”; then, she slips off…
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DVD Review: THE MINIATURIST (PBS)
MINIATURIST BIG IN THRILLS & DETAIL It’s late 17th century just after the fourth Anglo-Dutch war, and since Britain and the Netherlands are no longer fighting at sea, an 18-year-old Englishwoman, Petronella “Nella” Oortman (Anya Taylor-Joy), is chosen to marry rich sugar-merchant, Johannes Brandt (Alex Hassell), and brought to his home. Also in the household…
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Theater Review: SOUTHERNMOST (Playwrights’ Arena)
VOLCANOES WITHIN AND WITHOUT When you walk into the theater for playwright Mary Lyon Kamitaki’s Southernmost, Justin Huen’s scenic design transports you immediately into another world: An indoor-outdoor ramshackle house in Naalehu, on the coast of a largely unpopulated area on the Big Island of Hawaii. It is the southernmost inhabited space in the United…
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Theater Review: MY LIFE ON A DIET (Renée Taylor at The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
TAYLOR MADE If timing is everything with comedy Renée Taylor in My Life on a Diet is proof positive. This revival of her one-woman show, based on her 1986 memoir of the same title, is a master class in getting laughs. She takes sentences that wouldn’t necessarily be funny on the page and makes them…
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DVD Review: THE WOMAN IN WHITE (PBS)
WHAT WOULD WILKIE WANT WITH WOMAN IN WHITE? Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was a well-recognized English novelist, one who specialized in “sensational” novels, including his first big hit, The Woman in White (1859), and who, with Charles Dickens, co-wrote a stage adaptation of it, which had a successful London run. This latest television version — written…
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