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Theater Review: SPAMALOT (Mercury Theater Chicago)
NOT DEAD YET It’s at least a chuckle a minute. Half the hilarity is verbal sallies, half sight gags. This cheeky, subversive, and unashamedly sidesplitting Spamalot, described in the press release as “ridiculous men in tight pants,” is a labor of laughter. Its irreverence feels contagious, its target-shooting flawless. Nothing is spared its satire as it…
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Theater Review: MIDSUMMER [A PLAY WITH SONGS] (Greenhouse Theatre Center)
LOVE IN THE FAST LANE “Love will break your heart; sometimes you want it to.” That curious contradiction is the opening shot in MIDSUMMER (A Play with Songs). This theatrical roller coaster merrily chronicles a weekend “stand” in Edinburgh between convulsively disparate thirtysomething partners, a quirky encounter that may indeed have a future. Now in a…
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Theater Preview: SKINTIGHT (Geffen Playhouse)
GET SKINNED Joshua Harmon’s new play Skintight assays the nature of love, the power of attraction, and the ways in which a superficial culture persists in teaching its children that all that matters is what’s on the inside. This dramedy completed its successful run at Roundabout in NY, and opens at The Geffen Playhouse this…
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Cabaret Preview: ONE NIGHT ONLY CABARET WITH THE CAST OF HAMILTON (Marines’ Memorial Theatre in San Francisco)
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION In 1994, the groundbreaking decision was made to cast openly gay, HIV-positive Cuban-American Pedro Zamora as part of MTV’s The Real World: San Francisco. Zamora’s time in the Real World house on Lombard Street brought a face to the AIDS crisis. The darkly handsome, funny, surprising, and in-your-face activist…
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Dance Preview: FORMULAE AND FAIRY TALES (Invertigo Dance Theatre World Premiere at The Broad Stages in Santa Monica)
ONES AND ZEROS, APPLES AND POISONS, QUEENS AND WITCHES, FORMULAE AND FAIRY TALES A new dance work by Invertigo Dance Theatre is making its world premiere at The Broad Stages in Santa Monica next weekend on Friday and Saturday, September 13 & 14, at 7:30. Formulae and Fairy Tales is based on the life and…
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Theater Review: WITCH (Geffen Playhouse)
A PITCH FOR THIS RICH WITCH Written by Jen Silverman and directed by Marti Lyons, Witch is inspired by William Rowley’s Jacobian 1621 play Witch of Edmonton. The classic story follows Elizabeth Sawyer, a woman forced to the outskirts of society who finds revenge on her bullying neighbors by selling her soul to the devil. Well,…
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Theater Preview: HOT MIKADO (42nd Street Moon in San Francisco)
HOT, HOT, HOT I’m guessing most of you have not seen David H. Bell’s rousing Hot Mikado, a swing-era adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s beloved 1885 operetta, The Mikado. It may be the funniest toe-tapping musical comedy you’ve never heard of. This tour de force comic satire and dazzlingly spirited dance spectacular is a musical…
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Theater Review: HOWARDS END (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company at Theater Wit)
MAY HOWARDS END NEVER END “Only connect..! Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.” Seldom has a classic novel so strongly followed its defining drive as Howards End, E.M. Forster’s seminal 1910 good-will offering. As seen and…
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Theater Review: SONS AND LOVERS (Greenhouse Theatre Center & On The Spot Theatre in Chicago)
THE SON ALSO RISES It’s always fascinating to be present at the creation of a crucial writer. Like James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, and Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, D.H. Lawrence’s 1913 coming-of-age classic marks a metamorphosis: Sons and Lovers chronicles a writer’s conditional emancipation from a home that…
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Theater Review: CASA VALENTINA (Pride Films and Plays in Chicago)
THE WRONG WARDROBE? Clothes make the man — even if he dresses as a woman. An entire individuality, it seems, can hang in a closet, as transvestites have proven across the centuries. Casa Valentina, a 2014 period piece by Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy, Kinky Boots), explores a lost world of cross-dressers in the Catskills…
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Theater Review: FEFU AND HER FRIENDS (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in West L.A.)
FRIENDLY FEMINIST FIRE Fefu and Her Friends is one of the most famous plays by the recently deceased feminist avant-garde playwright María Irene Fornés, a Cuban American who has won nine Obie Awards including the award for sustained achievement. After seeing this production directed by Denise Blasor, I understand why. Fornés brilliantly captures the time…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: FRANKENSTEIN (A Noise Within in Pasadena)
ENDURING THE MONSTER Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) wrote her famous “ghost story,” Frankenstein, in 1818, while on a vacation on Lake Geneva with her husband, the poet Percy Shelley, the explorer Lord Byron, and Dr. John Polidon. It was a gloomy summer and these Romantic poets each wrote a Gothic story of some kind to…
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Theater Review: EARLY BIRDS (Moving Arts)
EARLY BIRDS GETS THE BIRD The phrase “early bird” generally denotes someone who is an early-morning riser or who shows up anywhere early, words usually attributed to the elderly. In Dana Schwartz’s light comedy, two senior women — one rich, one middle-class poor — find themselves on the first day of an ocean voyage beating…
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FIVE GREAT JAPANESE HORROR PICS
JAPANESE HORROR FILM REVIEWS One might ask what is so special about Japanese horror movies, as Japan’s input into global culture is now strongly associated with animation, fashion, and toys. However, the names of the horror films listed below are so widely known that a specific tendency becomes almost apparent. Let’s read on and try…
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Theater Review: 33 1/3 – HOUSE OF DREAMS (San Diego Repertory Theatre)
TRIBUTE TO THE HITS FROM GOLD STAR Gold Star Recording Studio might not be a household name, but the musicians they recorded for certainly are: Tina Turner, Sonny and Cher, and the Beach Boys are just hint at the long list. Gold Star turned out over 120 Top-40 songs in their thirty year history. With…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (Music Theater Works in Evanston)
A SERMON IN FLESH WOW spelled backwards! In almost forty seasons it’s their biggest show, with full orchestra and a cast of over 40, including a seated choir. It sprawls with spectacle but it’s also tight as a stark story requires. Music Theater Work’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame — a “medieval” musical spun from the 1996 Disney…
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Theater Review: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (Red Tape Theatre and Greenhouse Theatre)
ALL QUIET MAKES A BIG NOISE One of the saddest truths about humanity is that we always need to be warned against war, so tempting is its license to kill. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel, was not, alas, the anti-war novel to end all anti-war novels. It arrived half-way between…
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Chicago Theater Review: ALL THAT HE WAS (Pride Films and Plays)
MEMORIES IN MUSIC FORGE A GREATER WHOLE We’re witnesses to an aftermath and its collateral healing, the unsought legacy of a gay guy who died too soon: Newly revised after its 1993 inception and directed by bookwriter/lyricist Larry Todd Cousineau, All That He Was (with music by Cindy O’Connor) is a beautifully structured and powerfully performed valedictory….
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Theater Review: SHREK (3-D Theatricals in Cerritos)
SHREK IS A SHRUG OF A MUSICAL; BUT THIS PRODUCTION IS SURE AND SHARP Shrek The Musical is a mystifying experience. The whole thing is rather inane, versus the sophisticated silliness of Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. The first time I saw the show was the final performance of the National…
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Theater Review: BOOGIEBAN (Chicago Dramatists and 13th Street Repertory Theatre in New York)
COLLATERAL HEALING It’s a justified transfer. A very enterprising theater called none too fragile from Akron, Ohio has come to Chicago (and later to New York City) to offer a pretty powerful play. Presented at Chicago Dramatists in the West Loop, it’s a world-premiere production of a one-act about the hard healing that comes after…
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