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Los Angeles Theater Review: PARADE (3-D Theatricals)
DON’T LET THIS PARADE PASS YOU BY With no intentions of reviewing, I attended 3-D Theatricals’ astounding rendition of Parade, bookwriter Alfred Uhry and composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown’s emotionally pile-driving musical that reprises an ugly tragedy. I have been begging folks to see this Broadway-caliber outing — it closes Sunday Jun 24 — but heard this…
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Theater & Film Preview: BANDSTAND (The Broadway Musical on Screen presented by Fathom Events)
THE BOYS ARE BACK — BANDSTAND: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL ON SCREEN The Tony-winning musical Bandstand will be screened nationwide for two nights next week. Richard Oberacker and Robert Taylor’s ode to the 1940’s, musicians, and vets coming home from WWII won a Tony for director/choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler (Hamilton) and his high-octane, heart-stopping, spectacular dancing. The Boys Are Back…
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Music Review: DIANA ROSS SINGS MEMORIES WITH THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCHESTRA
MISS ROSS REVIVED MEMORIES, BUT DIDN’T BOWL US OVER Last Saturday was an unusually grey and chilly night for June. Unfortunately, the program for the opening night of the Hollywood Bowl’s 2018 season was as mild as the weather. I suppose it’s enough that the event raised more than $1.75 million for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s educational…
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Theater Review: LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH Eugene O’Neill twice turned his troubled youth into all-absorbing drama. His family first appeared as a happy tangle of eccentric loved ones in Ah, Wilderness!, a halcyon 1933 comedy that revealed no greater family rifts than a generation gap and a father’s worry about his son’s preference for “decadent” poets….
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CD Review: TAKE ME TO THE WORLD (Sutton Foster)
TAKING US TO HER WORLD I’m a huge fan of Sutton Foster: Her work is stunning on Original Cast Albums like Violet, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Anything Goes (which I think is far superior to the Patti LuPone version). So it’s a shame that her latest CD is such a mixed effort; there’s an “A”…
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Theater Review: CULT OF LOVE (IAMA Theatre Company in Atwater Village)
ON CONFORMING AND CHRIST Ah, what better fodder for drama is there than the dysfunctional American family? You know the ingredients: accusations hurled back and forth by the walking wounded; recriminations for offenses committed years before; and — for good measure — a reunion with plenty of alcohol and mental illness. With her Cult of Love,…
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Theater Review: A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME (Hollywood Fringe Festival)
HALLUCINOGENS, MAN-WHORES & CHINA PEOPLE I’m not sure why Steve Chang chose to call his world premiere one-man show at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival A Complete Waste of Time. It isn’t. He isn’t. And his aim doesn’t seem to be anything as trivial as what the title suggests. Chang tells a number of stories…
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Music Review: CONSIDERING MATTHEW SHEPARD (Ford Amphitheatre)
BREAKING DOWN FENCES An American requiem, an oratorio, and a choral masterpiece elegantly and movingly performed, Considering Matthew Shepard, which closes tonight at the Ford Amphitheatre, is not to be missed. The full-length work — containing hymns, Western music, spirituals, and other Copeland-esque evocations of American compositions — certainly mourns and honors Shepard, the twenty-year-old…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: SKELETON CREW (Geffen Playhouse in Westwood)
MOTHER COURAGE IN MOTOR CITY The marvel of scenic designer Rachel Meyers’ work greets you when you enter the theater at the Geffen Playhouse, and draws the audience into Skeleton Crew, the third and final installment in playwright Dominique Morisseau’s award-winning three-play cycle, The Detroit Project. Then Meyers’ set does an extraordinary thing: During onstage…
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Theater Review: ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST (After Hours Theatre Company in Burbank)
FLY TO THIS NEST Boy oh boy, if you like immersive theater, than check yourself into the madhouse over in Burbank. When the rebellious, charismatic and playful Randle McMurphy gets reassigned from penal labor on a prison farm to assessment as an asylum inmate, he gathers that the mental institution will be a more lenient…
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CD Review: SING HAPPY (Audra McDonald and the New York Philharmonic)
GET HAPPY I had the privilege of seeing Audra McDonald’s Tony-winning performances in Carousel, Master Class, and Ragtime, but it was her turn as Clara in Passion at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival that proved McDonald is, as Stephen Sondheim maintains, “one of the glories of the American theater.” Not only is she a refined singer with a golden soprano voice of purity and…
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Theater Review: AS WE BABBLE ON (East West Players)
SORRY TO BURST YOUR BABBLE In this unfortunate world premiere, the winsome cast begins with angry pessimistic post-millennial Benji (Will Choi), an Asian-American comic book artist whose boss — not seeing a need for the twentysomething’s Asian Superhero — has given a well-deserved promotion to a white dude instead. Benji wants to self-publish his character…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: EVERYONE’S FINE WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF (Elevator Repair Service)
EVERYTHING’S FINE, BUT WHAT IF WE HAD ALSO BEEN AFRAID? Starting out as a parody of Edward Albee’s Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Kate Scelsa’s Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf is a whimsical and witty feminist attack on what the play views as the failings of male dramatists. An abundance of quips, clever remarks, and…
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Chicago Theater Review: GUARDS AT THE TAJ (Steppenwolf)
BEAUTY AND BLOOD Guards at the Taj is, in the very best sense, unavoidable. To appreciate this grim and great drama by Rajiv Joseph (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Lake Effect), it helps to recall the facts that inspire it: The Taj Mahal means “Crown of the Palace,” but this magnificent marble mausoleum and its…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: 100 APRILS (Rogue Machine Theatre)
ONE ARMENIAN, ONE TURK, ONE ROOM – WHAT ARE THE ODDS? “Your blondness has not served you the way we had hoped,” says a woman to her daughter, as a husband and father is dying of heart failure in a hospital bed. The line perfectly captures the old world and the new in a loaded…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE (Music Theater Works in Evanston)
PIRATES STEALS YOUR HEART Music Theater Works just unleashed 140 minutes of undiluted ecstasy and hilarious nonsense, and the lucky location is Northwestern University’s Cahn Auditorium in Evanston. True to the topsy-turvy twists and turns of Victorian satire, this gem sounds great with Linda Madonia’s 26-piece orchestra, looks great with awesomely accurate costumes by Jana…
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CD Review: FRANZ KROMMER SYMPHONIES 4, 5 & 7 (Orchestra della Svizzera italiana – Howard Griffiths)
CAPTIVATING KROMMER Quick: Who was Franz Krommer? Don’t worry, many don’t know. A contemporary of Mozart by birthdate, this classical composer (b.1759, d.1831) was one of the most successful Czech composers in Vienna. “Franz Krommer” was born Frantisek Kramár, and at times his Bohemian and Germanized name were combined into Krommer-Kramár. Scholars assert that this…
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CD Review: 2018 TONY AWARD SEASON (Various Artists on Broadway Records)
TONY’S TASTY TASTER For quite a few years now, the Grammy Foundation has released a CD with the top Grammy nominated recordings in pop, R&B and Country categories. But it’s a strange brew — a mixed bag of genres that doesn’t satisfy as a listening experience. Now for the second year, the American Theatre Wing…
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Dance Preview: LULA WASHINGTON DANCE THEATRE (Ford Amphitheatre)
LULA’S BACK IN TOWN The Ford Theatres presents Lula Washington Dance Theatre (LWDT) on Friday, June 8 at 8:30pm, as part of its IGNITE @ the FORD! series. For this joyous evening of dance, three renowned choreographers — Kyle Abraham (“Hallowed”), Rennie Harris (“Reign”) and David Roussève (“Enough”) — will have their work performed by…
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Theater and TV Feature: GAME OF THRONES (From the Small Screen to the Big Curtain)
GAME OF THRONES — FROM THE SMALL SCREEN TO THE BIG CURTAIN Since HBO’s Game of Thrones hit our screens back in 2011, the show has gone on to become one of the most popular and best-loved series in television history. With the next and final season not scheduled to reach these shores until 2019, fans…
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