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Music Preview: JEREMY DENK, PIANO (The Wallis)
DENK FOR THE MEMORIES His academic lucidity, enchanted virtuosity and musical acumen make him one of the most exciting and accomplished pianists of our age. Now, Jeremy Denk is coming to The Wallis in Beverly Hills for a one-night only recital this Wednesday, April 25, at 7:30. This is a rare opportunity to see this…
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Chicago Theater Review: GRAND HOTEL (Kokandy Productions at Theater Wit)
REVOLVING FATES — AIN’T IT GRAND? Like the chandelier in Phantom of the Opera or the helicopter in Miss Saigon, a revolving door is the all-purpose metaphor for Berlin’s premiere hotel and the stories it spins. This fateful hostelry is the fertile setting for Maury Yeston’s 1986 musical version of Vicki Baum’s 1929 novel Menschen im Hotel (People in a…
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Film Commentary: THE ANTI-HEROES OF THE CINEMA CASINO
THE ANTI-HEROES OF THE CINEMA CASINO In Hollywood, there are no heroes in films centered around the casino. Film-makers thrive when they focus on the seedier side of the industry, preferring their leading characters to display foibles and flaws to make them more interesting and frequently more desperate. Allow us to run through Hollywood’s five…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: NATIVE SON (Antaeus Theatre in Glendale)
BLINDING SON I’m half Latino, half Eastern-European Jew, and I’m gay. But I know nothing of what it means to be African-American in a country founded on hating the color of your skin’”a country still defined, possessed even, by that hatred. I want to say that up front. No false equivalencies. That said, I will…
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Theater Review: HEAD OVER HEELS (Pre-Broadway San Francisco Premiere)
GO-GO SEE THIS SHOW Head Over Heels is an exhilarating and seemingly improbable musical mash-up of Sir Philip Sidney’s sixteenth-century work The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (libretto by James Magruder, adapting from an original book conceived by Jeff Whitty) and the songs of the iconic 1980s’ female rock band, The Go-Go’s (and a few tunes from…
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Album Preview: HOPES AND DREAMS: THE LULLABY PROJECT (Decca Gold)
YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS ARE ANSWERED Everyone knows that lullabies help babies sleep. But studies show that they can also ease pain and stress. These tender ditties are much more than a baby song as well. They are an intimate connection between the singer and the baby. And singing lullabies is good for parents. Singing…
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Los Angeles Dance Preview: STARDUST (Complexions Contemporary Ballet at The Music Center)
BOWIE’S BACK … AND FORTH Founded in 1994 by a pair of former Alvin Ailey dancers and frequent contributors to the hit TV show So You Think You Can Dance, New York-based Complexions Contemporary Ballet has wowed critics and audiences alike with their boundary-breaking style of ballet. Now Desmond Richardson and Dwight Rhoden bring their acclaimed…
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CD Review: MISA A BUENOS AIRES (Martín Palmeri)
TANGO FOR CHURCH Martín Palmeri (b. 1965) is not a well-known name, but based on his Misa a Buenos Aires, a rich orchestral and choral work that uses as a subtext both polyphonic music and tango, I hope more folks get to know him soon. Born in Buenos Aires, it’s clear that he’s a composer,…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: DUDAMEL CONDUCTS BERNSTEIN & BEETHOVEN (LA Phil)
D AND B AND B Our city’s philharmonic will be going on tour next week to the Eastern seaboard (Boston, D.C. and New York), and then overseas to Barbican Hall, London, and the Paris Philharmonie. They are bringing some dazzling programs which include music from last week’s barn burner of a line-up — the Shostakovitch…
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Chicago Theater Review: NATURAL AFFECTION (Eclipse Theatre Company)
CHRISTMAS CAN BE CRUEL More than most, life’s victims need their storytellers. William Inge (1913-1973) wrote his characters from the inside out — theirs and his. A heart surgeon without a scalpel, Inge, like his mentor Tennessee Williams, was a town crier against the meanness and pettiness — in both anonymous cities and rural backwaters —…
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Music and Dance Preview: TAO: DRUM HEART (International Tour)
TAIKO ME AWAY Ever since man could bang a stick on a rock, percussion has been a way for humans to express themselves. From the battlefield to the theater to your teenager’s bedroom, percussion has evolved from communicative and ritualistic purposes into an art form. We take for granted the use of percussion — primitive,…
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CD Review: HELLO AGAIN (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
HELLO AGAIN HELLO AGAIN Hello Again is Michael John LaChiusa’s 1993 musical adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s play about sexual intricacies (Der Reigen and, in French, La Ronde), which has itself been adapted dozens of times on stage (David Hare’s The Blue Room) and screen (360) since its scandalous censor-banning beginnings in 1897. The basic premise consists of…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE DOPPELGí„NGER (AN INTERNATIONAL FARCE) (Steppenwolf)
DOUBLE VISION, OR LOST IN THE LAFFS Can a forced farce make a theater audience howl with laughter, never realizing until the very end that the joke is on them? That’s almost a rhetorical question with Steppenwolf Theatre’s world premiere. It’s a clumsy/clever comedy whose final scene, arriving after two hours of relentless burlesque, attacks the…
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Tour Theater Review: SOUL DOCTOR (Lyceum Theatre in San Diego)
JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED: A JOYFUL MESSAGE There is an ancient Chinese proverb: “The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher.” In the musical Soul Doctor, the Jewish Orthodoxy apparently aren’t big on such Chinese wisdom. Based on the true story of Shlomo Carlebach, often known as “The Singing…
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Opera Review: IL PIGMALIONE & RITA (Chicago Opera Theater at the Studebaker Theater)
MY FAIR SIGNORA, OR DONIZETTI, SOUP TO NUTS He didn’t just write Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Pasquale, L’Elisir d’Amore, Poliuto, The Daughter of the Regiment, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux, Anna Bolena and much more. Gaetano Donizetti could write small and he started early: A fascinating, brilliantly mounted double bill, Chicago Opera Theater’s third and last Studebaker Theater…
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Music Review: DUDAMEL CONDUCTS SALONEN & SHOSTAKOVICH (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
A WONDERFUL WORLD PREMIERE BY SALONEN There’s nothing more wonderful than witnessing a world premiere and craving to hear it again immediately as an encore. Such was the experience with Esa-Pekka Salonen’s brand new 12-minute tone poem, composed this year. If the Symbolist Debussy and Modernist Salonen had a love child (Debusalonen!), it would be…
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Chicago Theater Review: LETTIE (Victory Gardens)
A CON IS NEVER “EX” The nickname Lettie comes from the Greek term “Letitia” or “joy.” That’s one of many bleak ironies that stalk the anti-heroine of Boo Killebrew’s survival saga, a world premiere from Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater. In 100 troubling minutes, her one-act chronicles the fall and fall of an ex-con and single…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: SIGNIFICANT OTHER (Geffen Playhouse in Westwood)
TOGETHER ALONE Keilly McQuail and Will Von Vogt are absolutely riveting in Significant Other, Joshua Harmon’s mostly funny, sometimes sad take on the pitfalls of being the GBF (gay best friend). Both actors fearlessly explore their characters’ self-obsessions so fully and so believably, that behavior and dialogue which might grow irritating, instead stays fresh and…
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Dance Review: GISELLE (Dada Masilo & The Dance Factory at The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
WILIS AT THE WALLIS First staged in 1841, Giselle is one of the oldest surviving ballets still in the international repertory, especially because the lead role is a showcase for the world’s leading prima ballerinas. Since its inception, the Romantic story ballet has had several revisions, but most companies follow Marius Petipa’s fin de siècle version. Now, South African…
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CD Review: THE DRUMS [Remastered] (Jo Jones)
JONESING FOR JO JONES Jo Jones (1911-1985) is one of the most important percussionists in jazz history. In 1934, he joined Count Basie’s band, influencing the Great Buddy Rich and the Great Louie Bellson. He was a backbone for Basie’s traveling troupe up through 1948. He influenced swing and bop drummers by shifting the timekeeping…
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