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Theater Review: THE SANTALAND DIARIES (Diversionary Theatre in San Diego)
ELF-DEPRECATING HUMOR PAYS OFF It’s hard to go wrong with this script, as writer David Sedaris’s biting wit, which has made him an NPR favorite for years, delights the cynic in us all. While it’s fine-and-dandy getting into the holiday spirit, one cannot be completely blind to the craziness that goes with it. Now multiply…
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Theater Review: CLOUD 9 (Custom Made Theatre Company in San Francisco)
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SATIRE Has it really been 40 years since Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9 was first presented? The biting satire is so topical — containing cross-dressing, gay relationships, and patriarchal and colonial rule — that one would think it just arrived on the scene. It’s every bit as entertaining, contemporary, and downright…
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Theater Review: AMERICA’S BEST OUTCAST TOY (Pride Films & Plays)
ODDBALL OUTCASTS It pays homage to the goofy compassion exhibited by claymation holiday specials, especially the iconic classic where the inhabitants of the Island of Misfit Toys are rescued by Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Now a world premiere musical by Pride Films and Plays staged by director/choreographer Donterrio Johnson, America’s Best Outcast Toy — An…
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Theater Review: SALVAGE (Lounge Theatre, Hollywood)
GET YOUR SOUL SALVAGED The minute I sat down at the Lounge theatre and saw the rundown bar on the stage equipped with a few tables, a jukebox and several guitars hanging on the walls along with a photograph of a famous country musician named Floyd Whitaker, I was transported to some small rural town…
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Operas Review: HANSEL AND GRETEL (SF Opera)
THIS IS ONE HANDSOME HARROWING HANSEL AND GREAT GOOEY GRETEL Well, how thrilling is it to see a brand new production in the world of opera. Especially given that this one is a winner replete with charm and cast with perfection. This new SF Opera co-production of Hansel and Gretel with London’s Royal Opera House…
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Theater Review: GROUNDHOG DAY THE MUSICAL (San Francisco Playhouse)
DOES GROUNDHOG DAY BEAR REPEATING? At the center of San Francisco Playhouse’s first regional premiere of Broadway’s Groundhog Day the Musical is the brilliant, perfectly cast Ryan Drummond, playing local TV news weatherman, Phil. This arrogant, uncaring teaser must relive Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney until he learns to care about other people. This musical adaptation of the…
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Theater Review: PUNKPLAY (Circle X Theatre Company at the Atwater Village Theatre)
PUNK’D In many ways, Gregory S. Moss’s 1980s-themed punkplay feels like a dream. Props and seasons are generically labeled. Flights of fancy are realized like make-believe. Even the era itself is presented as a distant memory we’re not sure really happened. Unfortunately, the wistfulness of a nighttime enigma doesn’t always make for compelling storytelling. Co-directed…
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Music Preview: SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY’S CHRISTMAS CONCERTS (Davies Symphony Hall)
HERE COMES SAN FRANCISCO’S STUPENDOUS SYMPHONY SERVING COLOSSAL CHRISTMAS CONCERTS We all know that San Francisco Symphony can easily be labeled one of our country’s best orchestras, but it’s a no-brainer to visit them this season given the amazingly diverse options you have this year. Here are my favorites. (And through Monday, Dec 2 at…
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Theater Review: JITNEY (Mark Taper Forum)
A JOYOUS JITNEY The late August Wilson (1945-2005) was a truly great American playwright, the most prolifically produced African-American playwright of all time. Jitney, now at the Mark Taper Forum until December 29, was his last play of his “Century Plays” to be produced on Broadway (winner of the 2017 Best Revival) but was the…
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Theater Review: ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE (Cirque du Soleil in Chicago and New York)
CHRISTMAS AS A CIRCUS There’s a beloved poem behind these multiple circus acts in one act: Clement Moore was never that fond of his famous 1837 poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas (better known as ’Twas the Night Before Christmas). Written in a jog-trotting anapestic tetrameter, the now-treasured verse was for its author a mere…
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CD Review: PICK UP MY PIECES (Gabrielle Stravelli Sings Willie Nelson)
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS The opening track of Gabrielle Stravelli’s latest CD Pick up My Pieces — which covers Willie Nelson originals and songs he’s covered — is delicious and delightful. Front and center in the medley of “Lady Luck” and “If You’ve Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time” is that voice! I’m a huge…
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Film Review: SAFETY (directed by Fabrice Joubert)
THE ILLUSION OF SAFETY If you have ever thought, I can’t imagine what it must be like to be in a situation as awful as a school shooting, this incredible new short film will show you. Without bloodshed, writer/director/producer Fabrice Joubert creates an effectively tense film with little more than a ten-minute run-time. There’s just…
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Theater Review: KEY LARGO (Geffen Playhouse)
NOT AS KEYED UP AS IT SHOULD BE The Geffen Playhouse has really been on a roll under the newest Artistic Director Matt Shakman. There are many more interesting scripts, and many more chances are being taken. And as always, both of Geffen’s playhouses are given Broadway-caliber production values. Shakman is also to be thanked…
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Theater Review: UNCLE VANYA (The New American Theatre in Hollywood)
CYNICS UNITE These days when directors revive a classic, they have to decide whether their approach will be either to modernize the play or mount it as a period piece, true to the spirit of the times in which it was created. Sometimes, as in the case of The New American Theatre’s Uncle Vanya, director…
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WHY MOBILE GAMES ARE INCREASING IN POPULARITY
WHY MOBILE GAMES ARE INCREASING IN POPULARITY The mobile games industry has grown at an astonishing rate in recent years. It is estimated that there will be 2.7 billion mobile gamers around the world by 2021. Players can also pay using phone credit to purchase items in these games. This blog post will explain to…
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Theater Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Goodman)
REAPPRAISING A CASH COW Consider this a kind of conditional mea culpa: In past reviews of Goodman Theatre’s A Christmas Carol, I’ve faulted the production’s trivialization of Charles Dickens’ 1847 ghost story, a tale intended to scare Victorian readers into avoiding the ugly life and dire fate of Ebenezer Scrooge. Rather than deal with a contemptible,…
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SLOT GAMES WITH THE HIGHEST RATINGS IN THE MARKET
SLOT GAMES WITH THE HIGHEST RATINGS IN THE MARKET The world of slots can be a little overwhelming for any casino game player, let alone a beginner. The rapid evolution over the last century has resulted in slots being found in near enough every pub or casino on the planet. If that’s not enough, there…
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Opera Review: THE MAGIC FLUTE (Los Angeles Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion)
THE WHIMSICAL FLUTE How to illustrate such whimsy: Chaplin on a Seussian sleigh, perhaps, belting an aria from Metropolis into the bowels of Dante’s Inferno. That’s as succinctly I can describe the magic awaiting audiences this holiday season in LA Opera’s dazzling production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte). The fact that…
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Music Preview: CHRISTMAS CHORAL CONCERTS (Los Angeles Master Chorale at Disney Hall)
HERE COMES L.A.’S COLOSSAL CHORALE WITH CHRISTMAS CHORAL CONCERTS AND CAROLS With the indefatigable Energizer Bunny of conducting, Grant Gershon, at the helm, Los Angeles Master Chorale (LAMC) can easily be labeled one of the best choirs on earth, and you have a chance to see four separate holiday programs this year at Walt Disney…
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DVD Review: DETECTIVE MONTALBANO (IL COMMISSARIO MONTALBANO), Episodes 33 & 34 (MHz Releasing)
JUST WHEN YOU GO TO LEAVE, THEY KEEP PULLING YOU BACK IN Dang! but this show has legs. Set in a gorgeous seaside town in Sicily, this quality cop-show, featuring the ever-young Detective Salvo Montalbano (now in his 50s) who fights murder in his section of the country with an individualistic crack team. These two…
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