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DVD Review: UNFORGOTTEN (Seasons 1-3, PBS)
YOU WON’T FORGET THIS All three seasons of this excellent British DVD/Blu-ray import, along the lines of the many Cold Case series, are first-rate and occasionally heart-stopping, here to be had and enjoyed on DVD. Starring the ubiquitous Nicola Walker (seen in her glory in MI5; Last Tango to Halifax; River) and veteran Sanjeev Bhaskar…
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Theater Review: BLOOMSDAY (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company at Theater Wit)
DÉJí€ VU VS. NEVERMORE A very prolific playwright, Steven Dietz can deliver dense dramatic homage. In his 2013 Mad Beat Hip & Gone, now playing at The Edge Theater Off Broadway, his dialogue dives into a recreation of beatnik Jack Kerouac’s road-trip fantasies. Another very recent work, his 2016 Bloomsday, incarnates and embodies James Joyce, specifically the…
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Theater Review: YOGA PLAY (Moxie Theatre Company in San Diego)
PUTTING CAPITALISM ON THE MAT Which of the following defines yoga to you? A series of gentle exercises meant to relax and invigorate the body; A Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline using breath control and meditation; An 83 billion-dollar international industry of mats, equipment, clothing, and accessories. All three are true, but for Joan (Jo…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE CROWD YOU’RE IN WITH (AstonRep Theatre Company at The Raven)
RETHINKING REPRODUCTION A very pointed question arrives near the end of Rebecca Gilman’s useful 2007 drama The Crowd You’re in With, first produced in Chicago ten years ago by Goodman Theatre. It’s posed by a young husband to a wife who badly wants to be a mother: “Do we love each other enough not to need to have a…
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DVD Review: VAN VEETEREN (Season One, Episodes 1-3 on MHz Releasing)
SCANDI-NOIR-VIA Based on the novels of Hí¥kan Nesser, this series concerns a retired northern European chief detective who opens up a used book shop for his leisure time; yet cops — whether friends from the force or not — keep coming in to test his skills on difficult cases. In Season One, now available on…
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Theater Review: AT THE TABLE (Road Theatre at Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood)
THERE’S A LOT AT THIS TABLE At the Table takes place in Catskills, a resort area in the low mountains in E New York State that I hold dear to my heart since I spent many summers there — as many Jewish New Yorkers did. The setting is the house of Nate (Christian Prentice), who…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: HAPPY TALK (The New Group at The Pershing Square Signature Center)
EVERYTHING IS HAPPY INDEED In Jesse Eisenberg’s very funny and poignant one-act Happy Talk the excellent Susan Sarandon plays Lorraine, an amateur actress whose rosy, self-serving delusions lead to tragic consequences. We first meet Lorraine when she arrives late to her suburban home from rehearsal; she’s playing the part of Bloody Mary in a production…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE WINTER’S TALE (Goodman Theatre)
A FRACTURED FAIRY TALE Shakespeare’s strange romance, which begins with gratuitous jealousy and ends with gratuitous forgiveness, is best savored as a fairy tale for grownups: A virtuous queen is condemned for adultery, her supposed despoiler her husband’s equally honest best friend. It seems as if we’ve blundered from courtly courtesies into an Othello-like tragedy. But…
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Review: THE SECRET GARDEN (3-D Theatricals)
A FLOWERING PRODUCTION The Secret Garden, the hauntingly romantic musical by Marsha Norman (book and lyrics) and Lucy Simon (music) opened on Broadway 1991 and ran 709 performances. The show starred Mandy Patinkin, Rebecca Luker, John Cameron Mitchell, and Robert Westenberg; 11-year old Daisy Egan became the youngest recipient of a Tony Award for Best…
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Theater Review: JULIUS WEEZER (The Troubies at El Portal in North Hollywood)
CAESING THE MOMENT What do you get when you mix Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy Julius Caesar with the hard-driving rock band Weezer? Adapter, director and choreographer Matt Walker, who also plays Cassius, arrived at the mash-up known as Julius Weezer, and you should be prepared before attending that you will no doubt wind up laughing your…
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Theater Review: AS YOU LIKE IT (Oregon Shakespeare)
AS YOU LIKE IT, OR DON’T These are strange times we’re living in, and political correctness makes strange bedfellows. For years now, Oregon Shakespeare Festival has been a leader of inclusionary casting — meaning actors who have been looked over in the past will be readily accommodated regardless of physical disabilities, age, race, sex, deafness…
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DVD Review: MRS. WILSON (PBS)
RUTH, THE TRUTH, AND A SLEUTH Actress Ruth Wilson is well known in her native UK, and is slowly gaining acclaim here in the U.S. (check out her work as the psychotic enemy of Idris Elba in the hard-hitting detective-drama, Luther). So when she approached BBC to produce a project close to her heart, they…
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Theater Review: THE UNDENIABLE SOUND OF RIGHT NOW (Raven Theatre in Chicago)
KEEPING ROCK REAL Letting a good thing go is a hard fate: Change is always constant but it’s never guaranteed to be good. A tough transition in Chicago’s indie rock scene is feelingly chronicled in Laura Eason’s The Undeniable Sound of Right Now, a Chicago premiere at Raven Theatre. The title sounds like a visceral response to an expiration date —…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: DANIEL’S HUSBAND (Fountain Theatre in Hollywood)
THE PLAY THAT GOT AWAY I don’t know the exact play Michael McKeever was writing prior to the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in favor of federal marriage equality, but I suspect it worked much more than this now locked-in reconstruction that made its way to Off-Broadway by 2018, and is now getting its Southern California…
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Theater Review: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (Tour)
AS RELEVANT AND CELEBRATORY AS EVER, FIDDLER GETS A POWERFUL REVIVAL It takes a musical to make a village: At nearly three hours, this very replete revival, which plays the Segerstrom Center in Costa Mesa through May 17, takes its time — but not ours. Fiddler on the Roof, the beloved 1964 musical, richly rewards…
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Theater Review: MAD BEAT HIP & GONE (Promethean Theatre Ensemble)
TAKE TO THE ROAD Walt Whitman may have patented the “song of the open road,” but the Beat Generation gave it their own course correction and made it into a map. These writers of the Eisenhower Era, most notably Jack Kerouac in On the Road, turned bittersweet wanderlust into their own manifest destiny. In a time before…
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Music Review: GREAT OPERA & FILM CHORUSES (Los Angeles Master Chorale at Disney Hall)
RESOUNDING SOUNDTRACKS In 1770, Jean Jacques Rousseau employed music to accompany certain dramatic scenes in his play Pygmalion. A hundred years later, music to accompany theatrical melodrama was de rigueur. By natural progression, music became an essential part of silent cinema. Phonograph, piano, organ or a loosely assembled band played along with the earliest movies,…
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Review: SISTER ACT (San Diego Musical Theatre)
WELL DONE HAVING FUN ON THE RUN AS A NUN Don’t you just hate it when your boyfriend turns out to be a mobster and murders someone right in front of you, forcing you to flee and hide — all when your Disco Diva career is ready to take off? Well, that’s what happens to…
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Theater Review: TOO HEAVY FOR YOUR POCKET (TimeLine Theatre)
ANOTHER DREAM DEFERRED The price of progress is no abstraction, not during the fully-freighted 160 minutes of Jiréh Breon Holder’s civil rights drama Too Heavy for Your Pocket. A TimeLine Theatre time capsule thrillingly staged by Ron OJ Parson, this blast from the past goes beyond yesterday’s infamous clash of activists against fire hoses to…
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Off-Broadway Review: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF IN YIDDISH (Stage 42)
SO WHAT’S NOT TO LIKE? As Shakespeare said, “Good wine needs no bush.” Thus, there is no need to add to what New Yorkers have already discovered, that no matter how many productions of Fiddler on the Roof you’ve sat through, you ain’t seen nothing yet until you’ve seen it in Yiddish, until you’ve heard…
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