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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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Theater Review: KISS MY AZTEC (La Jolla Playhouse)
SHOULD EVERYONE KISS MY AZTEC? IT DEPENDS: For fans of John Leguizamo, the notion of a full-length musical written by him is a thrilling draw. Whether a fan from his numerous edgy one-man Broadway shows like Ghetto Klown and Latin History for Morons, or his dramatic roles in Carlito’s Way and ER, or his comedic…
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San Francisco Music Preview: DANIIL TRIFONOV & MTT: RACHMANINOFF 4 (San Francisco Symphony)
RACH ON Daniil Trifonov is continuing his journey to honor and emulate his hero, the great Rachmaninov, by joining the San Francisco Symphony this weekend to perform the Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, a golden opportunity since it’s rarely played often in concert halls. Preceding The Fourth, Michael Tilson Thomas — in his…
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Theater Preview: GRUMPY OLD MEN — THE MUSICAL (La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts)
FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT; IT’S GOING TO BE A GRUMPY RIDE John and Max are elderly neighbors in a cold Minnesota town. They both live alone in their homes since their wives have died, and exchange stories about how their friends are now dying when they are not busy insulting each other. They have a…
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Theater Review: SKINTIGHT (Geffen Playhouse)
THE NEW NORMAL A weird dynamic takes over the house at Skintight, Joshua Harmon’s comedy, now at the Geffen Playhouse. In broad terms, it feels like a battle of the sexes — with men in the audience, straight and gay alike, cheering for Elliot (Harry Groener), a seventy-year-old billionaire clothier who defines love as something…
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Theater Review: THE GREAT LEAP (Steppenwolf)
HOOP DREAMS IN THE CELESTIAL KINGDOM No question, Lauren Yee is a wonderful new voice in theater. With Cambodian Rock Band she made crucial connections between iconic survivors and unspeakable genocide. Victory Gardens Theater’s 2018 local premiere was a powerful work of witness and redemption. Just as remarkable in its fusion of sport and history, people…
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DVD Review: GRANTCHESTER, Season 4 (PBS)
A CHANGE OF FAITH Well, apparently there will be a Season 5 of Grantchester, a safe but superbly made series about a local parish priest in the fictionalized version of a real rural community in the southeast of England, just south of Cambridge. This season, number 4, is set in 1956, continuing its gentle ride…
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Theater Interview: BEKAH BRUNSTETTER, Playwright of MISS LILLY GETS BONED (West Coast Premiere by Rogue Machine at Electric Lodge in Venice)
BONE CALL When a young Bekah Brunstetter set out to explore where she stood on issues like animal rights, faith, and even relationships, it was before she had ever learned to question what she wrote. No filters, just passion. Sex, faith, and violence are all part of the intricate package of connections in Miss Lilly…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE SOLID LIFE OF SUGAR WATER (Deaf West Theatre at Inner-City Arts)
A PRODUCTION WITH SOLID LIFE Phil and Alice are in love, the kind of messy, well-known, commonplace love that many couples are familiar with. They meet cute in a post office when a package full of sex toys meant for his brother bursts apart. But don’t think you are in for a romantic comedy. This…
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Chicago Theater Review: TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS (Victory Gardens)
CAPSULE CURES Not to be confused with anything else, Tiny Beautiful Things is a theatrical curiosity, fluidly blocked but dramatically static as it unleashes a swirling cascade of questions and answers. The latter, culled from 2010 to 2012, come from “Sugar,” an advice columnist of the Miss Lonelyhearts persuasion who wrote for The Rumpus, an online literary magazine. Unpaid…
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Theater Review: FIVE PRESIDENTS (American Blues Theater at Stage 773 in Chicago)
A CONVERGENCE OF HISTORY It was supposedly the “end of an era,” the memorial service for Richard Nixon in the Nixon Library in his birthplace Yorba Linda, California, on April 27, 1994. And we are there: Five Presidents, a recently revised 2015 drama by Chicago favorite Rick Cleveland, delivers 85 minutes of fascinating “fly on the…
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Theater Preview: CAROLINE, OR CHANGE (Ray of Light at Victoria Theatre in San Francisco)
CHANGE IS NOW We hear that that the only thing constant is change, yet we struggle against change, we fight against change, and some are even willing to succumb to the unyielding stress of determined apathy rather than change. We live in a world that must change the way it consumes and change the way…
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Theater Review: THE CHINESE LADY (Greenway Court Theatre in Los Angeles)
DECORATIVE CHINA I saw this beautifully sad, poignant, dark play last Saturday evening and I’m still thinking about it. Thanks to the wonderful writing, acting and directing this two-person outing based on a true story is that memorable. In 1834 a 14-year-old Chinese girl, Afong Moy (the excellent Amy Shu), arrived in New York from…
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Concert Review: BARRY MANILOW (Hollywood Bowl)
BARRY ME BACK TO THE SEVENTIES You know when glowsticks have been placed on each seat of the Hollywood Bowl prior to Barry Manilow’s extremely well-sold concert that there would be heart-wrenching numbers ahead. And there obviously were. Easy-listening, high-charting, orchestral pop tunes “Even Now,” “Weekend in New England,” and “Mandy” among them, backed up…
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Theater Review: LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS (Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles)
MORON THAT NOW One-man stage phenom John Leguizamo, who has popularized the stories of his Columbian/Puerto Rican/Bronx Ghetto peeps and their culture in semi-autobiographical shows Mambo Mouth, Freak, Spic-O-Rama, and Ghetto Klown, returns with lefty, sobering, highly entertaining monologue that brings home the tragic 3000-year history of Latino Americans. While the show is titled Latin History for…
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