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Theater Review: EVERYTHING THAT NEVER HAPPENED (Boston Court in Pasadena)
ANCIENT LIES AND MODERN QUESTIONS Theatrical magic happens when all the elements of a production come together to form a seamless whole; when the text, direction, acting, and technical contributions feel so organically intertwined that it is hard to tell where one person’s work ends, and another’s begins. Everything That Never Happened at the Boston…
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Music Preview: MARIINSKY ORCHESTRA (North American tour with Valery Gergiev at Segerstrom)
THE TRIFECTA OF MARIINSKY, GERGIEV, AND BARíTI AT SEGERSTROM As part of their 2018 tour, Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra will arrive at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall on Saturday October 20, 2018, at 8:00. This is the first stop for the inestimable orchestra, the finest I have ever heard. The program features Debussy’s…
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Music Review: LA PHIL’S CENTENNIAL SEASON, OPENING WEEK (Disney Hall and Citywide)
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, YOU’LL GET YOUR PHIL It’s been quite a week for our Los Angeles Philharmonic, which starts its second century with a slew of performances that has slathered the city with festivities and honor. Angelinos should be rightfully proud that our orchestra is celebrating all things artistic — musically and socially —…
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Opera Review: LA BOHÈME (Lyric Opera of Chicago)
PUCCINI’S PARISIAN OPERA ROMANCES AND ENCHANTS Lyric Opera’s 64th season opened with fizz, frocks, and fanfare last night. Once the red carpet had emptied and the evening’s audience settled into their seats with tumblers of wine, the curtain rose and the music began — and what a magical experience it was. The ladies in glamorous…
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Chicago Concert Review: JUDY GARLAND: COME RAIN OR COME SHINE (Music Theater Works)
BACK FROM OVER THE RAINBOW Please don’t take my word for it. See, hear and cherish for yourselves Angela Ingersoll’s wonderful reclamation of the great Judy Garland — the look, voice, persona, mannerisms, charisma and legend. It’s remarkable enough how much this Emmy-nominated songstress resembles the girl from Oz — her winsome warble, brushing-back gestures,…
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Review: FRAN LEBOWITZ (CAP UCLA’s Words & Ideas Series at the Theatre at the Ace Hotel)
A THOROUGHLY METROPOLITAN LIFE A worshipful cult greeted Fran Lebowitz at the Theatre at the Ace Hotel in downtown L.A. on September 30. She seemed incredibly pleased but not at all surprised, quipping, “I feel like Donald Trump at a Ku Klux Klan rally.” The Center for the Performing Arts at UCLA (CAP UCLA) presented…
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Theater Review: ROPE (Actors Co-op in Hollywood)
HERE’S SOME GOOD NOOSE FOR YOU Amid the jukebox musicals and feel-good issue plays of the moment, thank the macabre heavens for two grippingly disturbing entertainments. The first is Echo Theater Company’s Gloria killing them across town at Atwater Village Theatre. The other is Actor Co-op’s splendidly unsettling Rope, Patrick (Gaslight) Hamilton’s 1929 play about…
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Theater Review: CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (National Tour in Chicago)
MORE LIKE A SILVER TICKET Saccharinity, like speed, can kill: The guilty pleasure of loving chocolate can, it seems, cover a multitude of sins. Harnessing “pure imagination” as well as a sweet tooth, the 2013 British musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory milks, so to speak, Roald Dahl’s 1964 children’s novel. This adored adventure, of course, connects…
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Theater Feature: OPPENHEIMER (Rogue Machine Theatre at its new home, Electric Lodge in Venice)
A READY ROGUE MACHINE OPENS OPPENHEIMER J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant, enigmatic and complex man. Ambitious and charismatic, Oppenheimer found himself uniquely placed to spearhead the largest scientific undertaking in all of human history, the Manhattan Project and the creation of the Atomic bomb — he’s the man in charge of the team whose…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: GLORIA (Echo Theatre)
IF IT BLEEDS, IT LEADS If anyone should dislike the confrontational and cynical aspects of Echo Theatre’s knockout L.A. premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Gloria, I assert it’s no fault of the artists involved, including the playwright. This 2015 Off-Broadway two-act is unsettling, shocking and funny as it scathingly depicts the poorly-paid, dead-end, “soul-sucking” jobs of…
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Theater Review: UK UNDERDOG (Zephyr Theater)
HE’S NOT GOING TO THE DOGS, BUT THE PROCEEDS ARE There are many reasons to see writer/performer Steve Spiro’s entertaining and touching one man show, a powerful and emotional true story now playing at the Zephyr Theatre. Nicely shaped by director Ann Bronston, Spiro brings his childhood and subsequent years to life in a palpable way…
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Film Review: A STAR IS BORN (directed by Bradley Cooper)
BRADLEY COOPER — A STAR REBORN The first A Star Is Born (1937) tells of aspiring actress Esther Blodgett (played by Janet Gaynor) who impresses an alcoholic matinee idol Norman Maine (Fredric March). Esther gets her first big break in Norman’s next picture (and a marriage proposal from the smitten Mr. Maine). The movie’s a…
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Theater Preview: WHO’S HYSTERICAL NOW? (Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles)
GENDER-SWITCHED REENACTMENT OF THE KAVANAUGH/FORD TESTIMONIES ONE NIGHT ONLY, TUESDAY OCTOBER 2 If you think the Senate hearings last week were high drama, imagine seeing them live in the theater, but with a twist. Writer/producer Tina Poppy and Bootleg Theater’s Jessica Hanna offer you the timeliest commiseration on record. Tomorrow night, Tuesday October 2 at…
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Chicago Theater Review: DOWNSTATE (World Premiere by Bruce Norris at Steppenwolf)
CHILD MOLESTERS GET A PLAY Some underdogs seem deeply deserving — which makes sympathy for devils a tricky proposition. Pulitzer-winning Bruce Norris has never shied away from upsetting the apple cart. Co-commissioned and co-produced with the National Theatre of Great Britain, Steppenwolf Theater’s latest provocation Downstate examines four child molesters in a group home. Norris exposes them…
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Theater Review: NELL GWYNN (Chicago Shakespeare)
THE BELLE OF COAL YARD ALLEY LEAVES YOU GWYNNING FROM EAR TO EAR When you’re mistress to a monarch, your perch is precarious. Envy supplants praise as, moving from “rags to royalty,” your origin pursues you through slander and shaming. Lacking the protection of marriage, seldom measured by your merit (just your maneuvers), the royal…
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Theater Review: AMERICAN HERO (IAMA Theatre Company at the Pasadena Playhouse)
FEAR THAT TASTES LIKE CHICKEN IAMA Theatre Company’s 2018-19 season opener, Bess Wohl’s American Hero (a Pasadena Playhouse guest production at the Carrie Hamilton Theatre) is a portrait in miniature of the underemployed working poor’s quiet and not-so-quiet desperation. There is superb teamwork between the actors, and when it is at its best, the play…
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Album Review: DISSONANCE (Diderot String Quartet)
NOTHING TO DIS HERE For utterly superb technique and ensemble intricacy and expression, look no further than Diderot (DEE-der-oht) String Quartet’s new release of Mozart’s String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465, commonly known as Dissonance (1785). Consistently remarkable is the perfect blend of gravitas and lyricism — seriousness without being erudite or…
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CD Review: HILARY HAHN PLAYS BACH
BACH TO BRILLIANCE It’s now practically lore that violinist Hilary Hahn decided that her debut album would not only be solos, but partitas and a sonata by Bach, works that have been held as the zenith of violin composition and the most intangible of objectives for a newcomer recitalist. It was a move that raised…
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Theater Preview: THE OTHER PLACE (Chance Theater)
THE PUZZLE BOX OF THE SOUL Sharr White’s riveting and affective play, The Other Side, concerns Juliana, a neurologist and holder of a billion-dollar patent, whose life suddenly starts crumbling before her eyes. The show begins with her — confident, sophisticated, impregnable — lecturing to a convention hall full of doctors. By the end she…
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Concert Preview: HILARY HAHN PLAYS BACH (Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra)
LACO GIVES YOU A HAHN It’s now practically lore that violinist Hilary Hahn decided that her debut album would not just be solos, but partitas and a sonata by Bach, works that have been held as the zenith of violin composition and the most intangible of objectives for a newcomer recitalist. It was a move…
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