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Opera Review: DON CARLO: (LA Opera)
DOMINGO A SHINING LIGHT IN SOME DARK STAGING In LA Opera’s production of Verdi’s Don Carlo, which has some cosmic casting but a stifling set and stingy staging, the titular character has had a rather rough time before a note is sung. He has sneaked away from his princely duties to meet his betrothed, Elisabeth…
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Chicago Theater Review: WE’RE ONLY ALIVE FOR A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME (Goodman Theatre)
A RETROACTIVE RECKONING IN 12 SONGS His seventh coming is a gift worth opening. It’s been 13 years since Obie-winner David Cale has appeared on the Goodman Theatre stage. That’s where he previously presented six worthy works — The Redthroats, Deep in a Dream of You, Smooch Music, Lillian, Somebody Else’s House and Floyd and Clea Under the Western…
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Theater Review: MAME (Musical Theatre Guild)
THE ENDURING LEGACY OF JERRY HERMAN AND THE ‘STAR VEHICLE’ The chief pleasure in Musical Theatre Guild’s presentation of Mame at the Alex Theatre is hearing the music, full-out, as written, unencumbered, and unembellished. I mean that in the best sense. Jerry Herman’s score is lush and lovely, and it requires no reinvention. In the…
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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: BEEP BOOP (HERE)
THIS ONE’S A BEEPER Richard Saudek’s one man show beep boop begins with a man struggling to break through an elastic translucent membrane. He succeeds and is born — spit out of a womb — emerging dressed like a Brooklyn millennial and holding a smartphone. What follows is a brilliant display of mime and clown…
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Theater Review: THE CAKE (Geffen Playhouse)
LOVE AND TOLERANCE BEGIN AT HOME Debra Jo Rupp is like a hurricane in miniature. She takes us inside a character’s small, unexpected, interior storms. We see and feel her mind and emotions churning. Sometimes she lets all that energy propel itself outward, and she bounces around the stage with adorable comic effect. Other times…
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Theater Review: BONNIE & CLYDE (Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theater in Claremont)
A SURE(GUN)FIRE HIT The team of Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow, the most famous robbing, murdering, loving couple in U.S. history, is as unlikely a subject for a musical as Sweeney Todd. From their first meeting in West Texas through their tumultuous courtship and romance; from their brief, history-making crime spree to their fateful…
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Theater Review: THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE (Studio/Stage in Hollywood)
BLACK COMEDY, KITCHEN SINK DRAMA & ONE FECKIN’ MOTHER While the horror and suspense aren’t as delectable as previous productions of The Beauty Queen of Leenane — Martin McDonagh’s 1996 black comedy — the dark humor, bleakness, and romance positively boil over, making Capricorn Eleven Productions’ revival a recommended trip. For 20 years, 40 year-old spinster…
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CD Preview: THE BOY WHO DANCED ON AIR (Original Cast Recording)
THE BOY WHO DANCED ON AIR, AN AFFECTING CHAMBER MUSICAL The Boy Who Danced on Air,  a musical love story set in rural Afghanistan that was seen Off-Broadway last spring,  will receive an original cast recording from Broadway Records. This musical about  bacha bazi — “the ancient tradition where wealthy men buy boys from poorer families, train them…
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Music Preview: WYNTON MARSALIS AND THE JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA & CLAYTON-HAMILTON JAZZ ORCHESTRA (The Hollywood Bowl)
JAZZ, GENIUS AND ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS Wynton Marsalis’s wildly enjoyable composition, a new dance suite called Spaces, combines modern dance with big band jazz in a playful and entirely entertaining exploration of the animal kingdom. Performed for the first time in 2016, this visually captivating Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra production hits the Hollywood Bowl this Thursday,…
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Theater Review: THE HEART OF ROCK & ROLL (The Old Globe’s Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage)
AN EARNEST HEART THAT SHAKES, THROBS, PALPITATES & FLATLINES For all of its sincere heart and driving rock ‘n’ roll, this new jukebox musical inspired by Huey Lewis and the News’s upbeat pop tunes — either original (“I Wanna New Drug”; “The Power of Love”) or covers (Curtis Mayfield’s “It’s Alright”) — remains earthbound. Surprisingly…
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Film Review: LIFE ITSELF (directed by Dan Fogelman)
A CELEBRATION OF LIFE ITSELF Writer/director Dan Fogelman is currently represented on TV with his creation This Is Us, which follows two parents and their three children, born on the same day as their father. Now entering its third season, the NBC show takes place in the present but also utilizes flashbacks so we see…
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Theater Review: FUN HOME (San Diego Repertory Theatre at the Lyceum Stage)
BETTER THAN BROADWAY SD Rep’s production of Fun Home is more intimate with more heart and fun Wise and warm, funny and tender, this 100-minute family memory-play musical charts the twisted courses of a self-shaming gay father’s suicide and the coming out of his self-affirming lesbian daughter. Based on Alison Bechdel’s 2006 graphic novel, this…
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Chicago Theater Review: ARMS AND THE MAN (City Lit at Edgewater Presbyterian Church)
ARMS HAS LEGS George Bernard Shaw was not amused when his serious-minded “pleasant play” Arms and the Man, produced in 1894, was diminished into the 1908 operetta The Chocolate Soldier. He insisted that it be billed as a parody and that the dialogue be omitted. Yes, the tunes were pretty and the work a hit…
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Theater Review: FAIRY TALE THEATRE 18 & OVER: THE MUSICAL (Ammunition Theatre at Pico Playhouse)
18 & OVER THE MOON You gotta love a revue that starts with a song, “Turn off Your Fucking Phone.” Even better is that Ammunition Theatre Company — which gave us the astounding Giant Void in My Soul this summer — ups the ante with this modern olio for grown-ups. Creative dude par excellence Michael…
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Theater Review: BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL (Second National Tour)
BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL MUSIC If notes make joy, these 150 minutes are the elixir of happiness. Spanning only 13 years of its creator’s career (1958-1971), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical balances life against art. Magnificently. Its wonderful songs both stand on their own and preserve the pain and pleasure that went into their making. Douglas McGrath’s…
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CD Review: THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE by John Kander (Original Score Recording)
NO BEAST, NO JUNGLE, NO SONGS, JUST GREAT MUSIC The Beast in the Jungle, based on the Henry James novella of the same name, is an Off-Broadway dance-play that got fairly mixed reviews, but not because of this fascinating score from 91-year-old John Kander, who shows no signs of slowing down since the death of…
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Theater Review: THE UNTRANSLATABLE SECRETS OF NIKKI CORONA (Geffen Playhouse in Westwood)
MODERN LOSS MEETS THE ORPHEUS MYTH A superb cast tackles life and death in José Rivera’s new play The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona, now in its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse. It is an imaginative tale of a woman searching for meaning in the suicide of her twin sister. She engages the help…
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Theater Review: BIGMOUTH (Chicago Shakespeare)
FORGET STICKS AND STONES: WORDS WILL ALWAYS HURT YOU Who says words can’t kill? In BigMouth, flawlessly intoning English, Walloon, French, and German (with captions), Belgian solo performance artist Valentijn Dhaenens pours a dozen passions into nine alternating microphones. In little more than 70 minutes, this creator-performer conflates disparate speeches from sources as diverse as the innocent but…
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Film Review: WHITE BOY RICK (directed by Yann Demange)
A FILM ABOUT A BOY WHO LOSES HIS WAY LOSES ITS WAY White Boy Rick — written by Andy Weiss along with Logan and Noah Miller — is based on true events. It’s set in the 1980s in Detroit when the city, rife with corruption on every level, is at the height of a crack…
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