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Los Angeles Music Preview: CAMERATA PACIFICA (Season 29)
CAMERATA PACIFICA’S SEASON 29 BASED IN BEETHOVEN Camerata Pacifica is a chamber music ensemble based in Santa Barbara that performs a monthly series of concerts in Santa Barbara, Ventura, San Marino (at the Huntington), and DTLA’s Zipper Hall (at Colburn School). Founded by Adrian Spence in 1990, the group is composed of the finest performers…
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Theater Review: SWANSONG (Skylight Theatre)
AN EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMER IN A POWERFUL PLAY Produced by the Australian Theatre Company along with Skylight Theatre, Conor McDermottroe’s one-man play Swansong and André de Vanny’s pile-driving performance will stay with you long after the 65-minute one-act ends. Meet Austin ‘Occi’ Byrne, the abused illegitimate child of a single mother growing up in the 1960s on the…
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Film Review PEPPERMINT (directed by Pierre Morel)
JENNIFER GARNER KICKS SERIOUS BUTT — UNFORTUNATELY, THE MOVIE DOES NOT I have nothing against escapist entertainment. Every film I see does not have to be deep or meaningful in order for me to enjoy it. However it does have to be interesting with well-developed characters and a somewhat believable plot; Peppermint has none of…
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San Diego Theater Review: BLITHE SPIRIT (North Coast Repertory Theatre in Solana Beach)
LET THE SPIRIT MOVE YOU TO NORTH COAST REP Is it bigamy if you’re still seeing your first wife while married to your second? Does your answer change if the first wife has been dead for seven years? Herein lies the plot and fun of a séance that goes a bit too far, leaving Charles…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: NATIVE GARDENS (Pasadena Playhouse)
THE WAR OF ROSES — AND WEEDS Christian Barillas is adorably frazzled and enormously appealing in Native Gardens at the Pasadena Playhouse. He plays Pablo Del Valle, an ambitious lawyer born to wealth in Chile but disowned when he married a working-class Latina from New Mexico. In his youth he was “The Man,” surrounded by…
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Theater Review: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Shattered Globe Theatre in Chicago)
THE RIGHT TO DO WRONG Count this among the finest offerings from a Chicago theater: Shattered Globe Theatre’s kinetic staging of Chris Hannan’s adaptation of Crime and Punishment is flawlessly directed by Louis Contey, Eleven actors simultaneously attain personal bests in 155 minutes. First, however, a look at the roots of this wonder: Following his…
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Theater Review: GUNSHOT MEDLEY: PART 1 (Rogue Machine Theatre in Los Angeles)
MURDER WITHOUT END Sha’Leah Nikole Stubblefield is already a mesmerizing, ethereal presence on stage when you take a seat for Rogue Machine’s American Saga Gunshot Medley: Part 1, now in its American premiere at the MET Theatre. She is the High Priestess of Souls, perched in a graveyard, resplendent in a vermillion gown. Her garment…
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Theater Review: SCHOOL GIRLS; OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Culver City)
WE ARE THE MEAN GIRLS The subhead of Jocelyn Bioh’s 2017 play, now at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, is alluring but ultimately misleading. School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play is not merely a lighthearted twist on the popular film or its giddy siblings. This tale of a teenage queen bee and…
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Theater Review: SWEAT (Mark Taper Forum)
THE BIRTH OF TRUMP’S RACIAL BLUE-COLLAR DIVIDE Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage places much of the action of Sweat, now at the Mark Taper Forum, in a working-class bar in Reading, Pennsylvania, where floor workers from a nearby factory meet every evening to celebrate their comradery and drown their considerable sorrows. Though set in 2000 and…
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Theater Review: HOMOS, OR EVERYONE IN AMERICA (Pride Films and Plays at the Pride Arts Center)
TRAPPED IN A DREARY DRAMEDY There’s a tender scene at the start of HOMOS, OR EVERYONE IN AMERICA (a perversely paradoxical title) that wants to convince us that Jordan Seavey’s lads really are lovers. Brooklyn’s streetlights are dark from a power failure, so one guy comforts the other by playing some vinyl Vivaldi and holding him…
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Theater Review: THE WORLD GOES ‘ROUND (REPRISE 2.0)
THE WORLD IS FLAT Musical revues are a tricky business. While highly enjoyable and entertaining, even high profile compilations such as Side by Side by Sondheim and the Fats Waller songbook Ain’t Misbehavin’ amount to little more than glorified cabaret shows. Jukebox musicals a la Smokey Joe’s Café (Leiber and Stoller) and the long running Broadway smash Jersey Boys (Frankie Valli and…
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Theater Preview: 2018 PLAY LA FESTIVAL (Casa 0101)
PLAY ON Opening Night of the 2018 PLAY LA Festival of New Plays takes place Friday, September 7, at CASA 0101. Doors open at 7:00 pm at the Casa 0101 Gallery space for Hotel Mariachi, photos from acclaimed photographer, Miguel Gandert, followed by live Mariachi music (More about Gandert’s work here). At 8:00, HUMANITAS and PLAY LA will announce next year’s PLAY…
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Film Review: MAN IN AN ORANGE SUIT (PBS)
COMING OUT OVER 60 YEARS Finally LGBTQ films are taking a hold on the world’s psyche and quality work is being appreciated and rewarded with increased viewership. One of these fine dramas is 2017’s Man in an Orange Shirt, a far too-literary title for an engrossing two tales of gay romance set sixty years apart….
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DVD Review: A FRENCH VILLAGE/UN VILLAGE FRANÇAIS (Season 6 on MHz Releasing)
MORE HOPE FOR A FRENCH VILLAGE This extraordinary series continues its exploration of what the average French village went through during the German occupation (1940-45). In the six-episode Season Six, we watch the victors of the War putting on trial some of those who collaborated with the Nazis, in clear and non-hysterical scenes. One of…
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CD Review: UKRAINIAN RHAPSODY (Anna & Dmitri Shelest on Sorel Classics)
WAXING RHAPSODIC Firmly ensconced in the Romantic period, Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko — as with his Czech contemporary Dvořák — wrote many of his pieces based on folk music of his homeland. As did Bartók later in Hungary, he went out into the field, listened to what the people were singing and fashioned an individual musical…
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Theater Review: A SHAYNA MAIDEL (TimeLine)
NO CLOSURE FOR GENOCIDE Family is how history happens. As Arthur Miller wisely showed in All My Sons, The Gift and The Crucible, change radiates outward. Even, or especially, an immense abomination like the Holocaust can’t be measured in six million dead as powerfully as in one family crushed and confronted by what was, what might have been, and…
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Theater Review: I GO SOMEWHERE ELSE (Playwrights’ Arena at Atwater Village Theatre)
THE MOTHER OF THEM ALL “Don’t call me a liar,” a mother says. “But you lied,” responds her daughter simply. And all holy hell breaks loose. In I Go Somewhere Else from Playwrights’ Arena at the Atwater Village Theatre the “flat circle of time” gives life to the daughter at three ages, roughly 10, 30,…
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Theater Review: AIN’T TOO PROUD–THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS (Pre-Broadway Run at the Ahmanson in Los Angeles)
MAGIC IN THE MUSIC Sometimes jukebox bio-musicals get so caught up in the fame and fortune of the journey that they miss the creative passion that is the true force driving most artists forward. Happily, Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations at the Ahmanson Theatre puts the music front and center,…
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Film Review: THE FIVE ALL-TIME GREATEST LOVE STORIES IN CINEMA
THE FIVE ALL-TIME GREATEST MOVIES ABOUT LOVE STORIES These films containing classic romantic scenarios have been watched, reviewed, and discussed by our staff. Here are five recommendations for you and your friends. 1. Roman Holiday (1953) This fairy tale was filmed in Rome. So, it is not just imbued with the rich Italian sun, but…
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Theater Review: JEWS, CHRISTIANS AND SCREWING STALIN (Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles)
RED SCARE IN BROOKLYN I was at a dinner party in New York once and met a 97-year-old woman who embodied a kind of Upper West Side left-wing glamour I find intoxicating. She had grown up in a family of Jewish intellectuals and recounted terrible tensions at the dinner table. “I was a socialist,” she…
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