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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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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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