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Theater Review: HARVEY (Laguna Playhouse)
YOU’RE GETTING TO BE A RABBIT WITH ME Whatever happened to all the imaginary friends we had as kids? Did they all end up in some limbo where they started making friends with each other, or, like Peter Pan, did they transfer their affections to a new generation of make-believers? Anyway, they’re no longer there…
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Feature: HOW TO WRITE A REVIEW OF A THEATRE PERFORMANCE
HOW TO WRITE A REVIEW OF A THEATRE PERFORMANCE Going to the theatre can be a magical experience, but writing a critical review of a theatre performance can be a challenge even for the most insightful and attentive theatre-goers. If you are interested in writing a critical review of a theatre performance, there are a…
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Theater Review: ANNA IN THE TROPICS (Open Fist Theatre Company in Los Angeles)
HAS TOLSTOY EVER BEEN SO HOT? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Anna in the Tropics, Nilo Cruz created the role of striking, velvet-voiced, Cuban Lothario Juan Julian, a lector who is hired to read books to the workers in a 1929 Tampa cigar factory — it alleviates tedium, inadvertently educates them, and, in this case, causes…
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San Diego Theater Review: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Cygnet Theatre in San Diego)
THERE’S HUMOR TO BE PROUD OF HERE, SO DON’T BE PREJUDICED For those who have read or seen Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, there are many nouns that come to mind such as “classic,” “drama,” “witty,” “depth,” and “struggle.” Until now, though, it would be rare to see “hilarity” on that list. In Kate Hamill’s…
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Theater Preview: THE LAST FIVE YEARS (After Hours Theatre Company in West Hollywood)
A PERFECT FIT Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years is contextually brilliant: it is a two-character musical that starts at the end of a five-year relationship for the woman, Cathy, but at the beginning for the man, Jaime. Her songs go backward in time and his forward. They meet in the middle of the…
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Theater Review: BRONCO BILLY – THE MUSICAL (World Premiere at Skylight Theatre)
BILLY BOY OH BOY Meet Billy, an ex-con sharpshooter who is living his American Dream in 1979. This optimistic showman, romantic, and visionary has encouraged a fraternity of castaways — a Native American and his wife, a car thief, an ex-nurse, an erstwhile bank teller — to join him as entertainers in a troupe about…
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Theater Review: READY STEADY YETI GO (Rogue Machine Theatre at Electric Lodge in Venice)
GRAFFITI THAT ASKS PERMISSION Carly Uhlenbeek (Jasmine St. Clair), an African American suburban seventh grade girl, seeks answers in playwright David Jacobi’s Ready Steady Yeti Go, a Rogue Machine production that is part of the National New Play Network’s rolling world premiere program. She assembles her friends to reenact the events of a recent hate…
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Documentary Film Review: THE LAVENDER SCARE (directed and produced by Josh Howard)
IT’S STILL SCARY The Witch Hunt has been part of the American psyche since Salem. Lately though, the cries of “witch hunt” evoke not the green of Elphaba, rather a nauseous orange. And while that might seem a horse of a different color, let us not forget the Red Scare in which the self-serving machinations…
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DVD Review: ACQUITTED (Season One, MHz Releasing)
YOU WON’T WANT ACQUITTED TO QUIT Norway’s Acquitted (Frikjent) Season One is now available on DVD and MHz with Season Two to follow. A strong contender for Best Teleplay Sounding Like a Soap Opera, it is — believe me — much, much better. Norwegian Aksel Borgen (Nicolai Cleve Broch) has returned home to his native…
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Music Review: MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 8 (Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil)
AN EIGHT OUT OF TEN About his Symphony No. 8 Gustav Mahler wrote to Dutch conductor Willem Mengelberg, known for pioneering and mastering Mahler’s works: “I have just finished my Eighth Symphony — the most magnificent of anything I have yet written. The work is so unique in terms of content and form that it…
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Theater Review: FALSETTOS (National Tour in Chicago)
WHAT MORE CAN THEY SING? By its riveting end Falsettos, a fusion of March of the Falsettos (1981) and Falsettoland (1990), has jolted us with its heartbreak and won us with its wit. This very grown-up musical by composer/lyricist William Finn and bookwriter James Lapine still delivers a daring plot: Marvin leaves wife Trina and son Jason for…
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Theater Review: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles)
PLENTY TO DESIRE When I was thirteen I discovered Tennessee Williams when I picked up his play A Streetcar Named Desire at the New York Public Library. I don’t know if I fully understood it at that age, but there was one line that not only stayed with me my whole life, but is the…
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Theater Review: SHOOTING STAR — A REVEALING NEW MUSICAL (Hudson Mainstage in Hollywood)
SHOOTING STAR AIMS, SHOOTS … AND BORES Shooting Star, billed as “A Revealing New Musical” — and getting its World Premiere at the Hudson Theatres in Los Angeles under the direction of Michael Bello — offers us a glimpse of one man’s journey through the world of gay porn. Written by Florian Klein (a.k.a. adult…
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CD Review: DONNA VOCE (Anna Shelest, Piano)
DONNA BELLA Anna Shelest, a New Yorker born in the Ukraine, has not only won me over with her astoundingly dexterous and emotive pianism, but has truly proved herself a whiz at programming her albums. Even if her newest CD, Donna Voce, was not a collection of piano solos by female composers who deserve as…
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Theater Review: SIX (The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare)
SIX CHICKS REMIX TO NIX PRICKS Singing well is the best revenge, especially if you married the spouse from hell. So runs the cunning concept behind Six. This raucous pop concert joyously restores to very loud life the six ex-wives of Henry VIII. The rampaging result, recalling the hip-hop irreverence of the Q Brothers’Othello: The Remix and Christmas…
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Theater Review: HAPPY DAYS (Mark Taper Forum)
HAPPY DAYS IS HERE AGAIN I had never read nor seen Samuel Beckett’s absurdist classic Happy Days, now at the Mark Taper, but was excited at the prospect of seeing the great Dianne Weist in the flesh. Like many people, I’ve loved her ever since Hannah and Her Sisters, one of Woody Allen’s best films,…
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Music Review: DUDAMEL & LANG LANG (LA Phil)
BACK TO BUSINESS Star pianist Lang Lang overcame his left-hand injury — the tendonitis that caused him to hand off four of five scheduled Beethoven Concertos with the LA Phil this month. His limited schedule has allowed for quicker recovery time, but it also allowed four other pianists from around the globe to show off…
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Theater Review: STYLE AND GRACE: IN TRIBUTE TO LENA HORNE AND NANCY WILSON (Black Ensemble Theater in Chicago)
SINGING UP STORMY STUFF With this theater everything good is new again — and never old. The latest homage from Black Ensemble Theater, Style and Grace: In Tribute to Lena Horne and Nancy Wilson honors stellar singers whose consummate talents we lost in 2010 and 2018, respectively. Incarnating “impeccable style and enduring grace,” these divas…
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Theater Review: M. BUTTERFLY (South Coast Rep)
MEH BUTTERFLY M. Butterfly asks the audience to accept a love story in which a French career diplomat takes a Chinese opera diva as his mistress for 20 years, unaware that the diva is actually a man. Truth being stranger than fiction, the story is based on a real life affair that David Henry Hwang…
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Theater Review: MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN (Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago)
THE MONSTER WITHIN It was a dark and stormy night. Escaping a tempest by seeking shelter in the Villa Diodati on a summer night in 1814, good friends Mary Shelley (as she would later be called), her future husband and Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, the infamous George Gordon Lord Bryon, affable Dr. John Polidori,…
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