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CD Review: THE MUSIC OF HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (Imogen Heap)
HARRY POTTER AND THE RECYCLED RECORDING ENGINEER Jack Thorne’s immensely popular two-part play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, has taken up residence in London, New York, and Melbourne, and will soon be in San Francisco (Nov. 2019) and Hamburg (2020). Recording artist and engineer extraordinaire Imogen Heap was hired to create a soundtrack for…
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Theater Review: NO, NO, NANETTE (Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theater in Claremont)
A YES AND NO NANETTE When the 1925 musical No, No, Nanette was revised and remounted in 1971, it was predicted to be a flop by folks in the Biz, but it was the buzz of the season with nostalgia-seeking audiences who were sick of assassinations and war; they were ready for a delightful, carefree…
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DVD Review: A FRENCH VILLAGE/UN VILLAGE FRANÇAIS (Season 7, Series Finale, on MHz Releasing)
í€ BIENTí”T This brilliant series, set in a fictional south-eastern French village during and just after World War II, gives the patient viewer an extraordinary history from the Nazi invasion from 1940 to 1945: the day-to-day survival mechanisms the populace and police had to endure, and the effects of the Vichy government on turncoat French…
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S.F. Theater Review: FIORELLO (42nd Street Moon)
MAYOR DREAMS COME TRUE SOME OTHER TIME The 42nd Street Moon production of Fiorello is just fine, if you allow for the looseness of staging, the clumsy choreography, and the overall sensation that it is primarily a high school production played by adults (this is not a criticism of high school productions, since I’ve seen…
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Theater Review: A BRONX TALE (North American Tour)
A BRONX CHEER Unpretentious and unpreaching in its streetwise survival lore, the gangster fable A Bronx Tale is, as the name implies, just one of many small sagas from the lesser borough. Now on tour, this 2016 musical has a book by Chazz Palminteri, based on his semi-autobiographical solo show and the 1993 film directed by…
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DVD Review: INSPECTOR WINTER (MHz Releasing)
WORTH INSPECTING There is something strong to say in favor of MHz’s collection of European dramas and cop shows and Inspector Winter is a quality example. Based on the popular crime novels of í„ke Edwardson, his Swedish detective (Magnus Krepper) is a craggy-faced, 40+ pile of insecurities and power, as depressed as a Scandinavian mid-winter…
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Theater Review: THE CHOIR OF MAN (National Tour)
IN PRAISE OF THE PUB There’s no need for a plot, three-dimensional characters, or conflicts pending resolution — no, not when the setting and its songs sell themselves from the start. That feel-good premise pays off over 80 minutes in The Choir of Man, a British import now playing Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse on its first…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: ESCAPE FROM GODOT (YARD Theater)
WE’RE STILL WAITING You’re watching a play but you have no idea what’s happening. There is no plot, the dialogue is gobbledygook, and characters are filled with despair, yet you are told that this is Theater of the Absurd, one of the milestones in modern drama. Still more maddening is that others around you can’t…
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Theater Review: STEVE (New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco)
THE BOYS IN THE BLAND “Every day a little death/In the parlor, in the bed.” Thus spake Stephen Sondheim in his waltz time operetta A Little Night Music. And it is not totally frivolous to start a conversation about Mark Gerrard’s interestingly fresh oddball comedy, Steve, with a musical comedy reference since it is about…
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Chicago Theater Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (Mercury Theater Chicago)
THE HORROR…THE HORROR… THE FUN…THE FUN… You can see it as a modern parable of how the neglect that created Skid Row and its plethora of poverty brings its own revenge: A literally bloodthirsty plant gets sensationalized by rapacious promoters and proceeds to eat up the planet. The Bitch Goddess Success is here transmogrified into…
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Film Review: RAIN MAN (directed by Barry Levinson)
GAMBLING WITH FAMILY Rain Main is a heart-warming Hollywood tale that explores the relationship between a slick, fast-talking Lamborghini salesman, Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise), and his autistic, yet extremely gifted brother, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman). When returning to Cincinnati to attend the funeral of his father, Charlie is disappointed to find that his inheritance consisted solely…
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DVD Review: THE PALERMO CONNECTION (MHz)
AN ACTOR YOU CAN’T REFUSE What would Italian cop shows be without some Mafia to give it juice? The Palermo Connection explores that subject when a hotshot cop, Angelo Caronia (Riccardo Scamarcio), is transferred from his current base in Rome to a small police station on the outskirts of Palermo, capitol of Sicily, his birth-city….
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DVD Review: NERO WOLFE (MHz Realeasing)
A WOLFE IN BLAND CLOTHING Crime shows do not always have to be violent, sexist or hyper-exciting to be loved. But if they’re not those, then they’d better have strong storytelling and visual acuity to make their mark. Rex Stout (1886-1975) created the character of Nero Wolfe, an overweight, misogynistic, gourmand and armchair detective in…
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DVD Review: THE TUNNEL: VENGEANCE (PBS)
END OF THE TUNNEL What a send-off for a series! Watching the remarkable chemistry between Stephen Dillane as British cop Karl Roebuck and Clémence Poésy as French officer Elise Wasserman creates the kind of joy that only qualified actors are able to generate with viewers, making the thriller-series mindful of what art should be. The…
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Film Review: CAPTAIN MARVEL (directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck)
THE MOVIE’S A MARVEL, BUT MARVEL HERSELF..? Is it possible to love a film — its great humor, excitement and surprises — but not the lead actress? Brie Larson plays Vers aka Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel with all the moves necessary to be front and center in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — kicking, leaping,…
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Theater Review: THE JUDAS KISS (Boston Court)
LOVE CONQUERS COMMON SENSE My takeaway about Oscar Wilde in David Hare’s intellectually stimulating but overly static play of ideas, The Judas Kiss, now at Boston Court, is this: The literary genius, raconteur and bon vivant was not the wisest of men, making him largely liable for his own downfall. It may have been that…
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Theater Review: HER PORTMANTEAU (A.C.T.’s Strand Theater)
CARRYING BAGGAGE Although it is written with an almost childlike simplicity, Mfoniso Udofia’s Her Portmanteau tells a wrenching tale of the profound effect that separation creates when a woman who has left her family behind in Nigeria to start a new family in America has to face again her daughter, who has now come to…
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Theater Review: SOUTHERN COMFORT (Pride Films and Plays at the Pride Arts Center)
TRANS-CENDENT Rather than dwell on the similitude of roses, Gertrude Stein might better have said love is love is love. It certainly is in one particular North Side storefront: A 2016 blue-grass musical with a heart and a half is now a warm and winning Chicago premiere from Pride Films and Plays. Southern Comfort offers just…
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Theater Review: TOO MUCH SUN (Indie Chi Productions at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles)
TOO MANY CHOICES If Chekov’s characters could be said to be trapped by society, circumstance, and their own neuroses, the characters in playwright Nicky Silver’s Too Much Sun, now at the Odyssey Theatre, are more spoiled for choice. Money and opportunities give them physical possibilities; the guilt of those who have failed them and their…
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San Diego Theater Review: GABRIEL (North Coast Repertory in Solana Beach)
TENSION, HUMOR, AND INTRIGUE IN BEGUILING WWII DRAMEDY There would be much better places to live in 1943 than on the German-occupied British island of Guernsey, especially if you are sheltering your Jewish daughter-in-law Lily (Lilli Passero), who is passing for gentile. Our protagonist Jeanne (Jessica John) is not fond of Lily, but has no…
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