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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: DIVINE HORSEMEN (Primitive Grace Theater Ensemble at Access Theater)
NOT JUST HORSING AROUND After watching Paul Calderon’s quite gripping tale of thugs and scammers trying to grift a deal whatever way they can, you’ll start to wonder, “Um, wouldn’t it be easier to just get a real job?” I mean, a scam is fun, I get it – I’m a theater critic and we’ve…
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Theater Review: ALADDIN (National Tour)
A BROADWAY AMUSEMENT PARK THAT FLIES LIKE A CARPET “Open sesame” indeed. It’s “Abracadabra” times ten as the arrival of Aladdin in Hollywood feels as triumphant as Prince Ali’s magnificent entrance into Agrabah at the top of the second act. A theme park of a musical, Disney Theatrical Productions’ eye-popping transformation of the 1992 film…
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Chicago Theater Review: FLAMINGO & DECATUR (Block St Theatre Co at Theater Wit)
GOOFBALL GAMBLERS IN SIN CITY A troupe from Fayetteville, Arkansas has come to Chicago’s Theater Wit to showcase a new play about Las Vegas. That’s the download on Flamingo & Decatur, a sporadically fascinating character study about low rollers in a mean town. At his best, playwright Todd Taylor—and director Kevin Christopher Fox—share with us their…
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Los Angeles Art Preview: L.A. ART SHOW (Los Angeles Convention Center)
ART YOU TAKE PART IN I never in my wildest imaginings would have thought Los Angeles to become a mecca for art. But the combination of a rich cultural stew, the burgeoning arts life of downtown L.A., an explosion of galleries (of which Culver City was at the forefront), the opening of the Getty, better…
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Chicago Theater Review: FOR THE LOYAL (Interrobang Theatre Project at Athenaeum Theatre)
TERROR IN TRUTH In For the Loyal headlines become humans. A short but stirring piece of theatrical speculation, this new work by topical playwright Lee (A Walk in the Woods) Blessing condenses the recent Penn State sex scandal into a corrosive choice, a moral crisis impacting a “loyal” college couple. As with Arthur Miller, Blessing knows how…
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Los Angeles Music Review: DEBUSSY, RAVEL, & BEYOND (Matthias Pintscher, Renaud Capuçon and the Los Angeles Philharmonic)
“MAR’EH” GETS A “M’EH” While musicians and devotees of “new” music may find Matthias Pintscher’s mar’eh cool, the patrons at Disney Hall were not having it at the opening night last Friday. Truly typical of way too many modern works, mar’eh (with an also-typical all-lowercase title spelling) is a violin concerto that’s an atmospheric stew-of-notes perfect for a melody-free…
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DVD Review: THE COLLECTION (Season 1 on PBS)
FASHION YOUR SEAT BELTS What is it about the fashion world that is such a turn-on, and also allows for compelling drama? Why do some of us kvell when new and ancient clothing designs enter into our psychic systems, but others turn away, bored and bewildered? Well, some of those questions may be answered by…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: BUGABOO & THE SILENT ONE (Lounge Theatre in Hollywood)
THANKFULLY, NOT SO SILENT Based on her three previous theater outings alone, it’s fitting that writer/director Marja-Lewis Ryan has recently been tapped to be showrunner and executive producer of he upcoming The L Word sequel series. L.A. is lucky to have Ryan, who loves to keep working in theater even as her career in film…
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DVD Review: THE TUNNEL: SABOTAGE (PBS)
TUNNEL VISION A continuation of the superb series that so far six countries have originated or adapted: Sweden/Denmark’s The Bridge (original and two sequels); America/Mexico’s The Bridge (only one season); and now the second season of the French/British adaptation, titled “Sabotage” — and there is a third in line. Two police departments from France and…
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DVD Review: ICE MOTHER (directed by Bohdan Sláma)
ICE GOING One of the Czech Republic’s best directors is Bohdan Sláma, whose latest film, “Ice Mother/Bába z ledu” is now released in the U.S. The story, written by Sláma, is wry and telling of how age can make us invisible to others unless we make ourselves visible. Hana (Zuzana Kronerová) is 67, a widow,…
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Theater Review: LUZIA (Cirque du Soleil on tour)
MEMORIES OF MEXICO, LUZIA UNLEASHES A RAIN OF JOY The Cirque du Soleil just made a run for the border ’” and not the Canadian one — as the Montreal-based human circus lavishes its unstoppable imagination on our neighbor to the south. Luzia, the latest (ad)venture under the redesigned white-and-gold Grand Chapiteau (its tent planted in the…
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DVD Review: CAMILLA Lí„CKBERG: The Preacher, The Stonecutter, The Stranger (MHz Networks)
NORDIC NOIR: STORIES TO FJí„LLBACKA These three Swedish murder mysteries by the best selling Camilla Låckberg are a mixed lot, but still worth a visit. Born in 1974, the í¼ber-successful author has seen her stories filmed quite a bit for television, with all of her mysteries set in the Swedish town of Fjållbacka and nearby…
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CD Review: IN FULL SWING (Seth MacFarlane)
A CAPITOL IDEA I got a chance to catch Seth MacFarlane with orchestra at Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa last night, and it’s clear that this handsome, dapper, multi-talented artist isn’t just making his fan base happy, he’s making both the lovers of the Great American Songbook and the musicians in the band very…
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DVD Review: NOVA: KILLER VOLCANOES (PBS)
KILLER NOVA EPISODE A thoroughly engrossing documentary on how extreme volcanoes can – and do — influence global climate change, specifically in adding sulfuric acid and ash into clouds which the winds blow everywhere, causing temperatures to drop, for months or years at a time. The producers wanted to find out how a thirteenth-century English…
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DVD Review: PARIS: THE GREAT SAGA (MHz)
OOH-LA-LA Five thousand years of Parisian history is beautifully explored in this two-disc French-produced journey with English narration. The City of Light was originally a small Gallo-Roman village next to the river Seine and near the river Marne, named Lutetia-Parisorum after the tribe known as the Gallic Parisii, and was renamed Paris in 360 CE…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: HOW THE PRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! (Troubadors at El Portal Theatre)
A PRINCH ASSAULT For 22 years, the Troubadour Theater Company (aka The Troubies) has amalgamated freely altered classics with music of a particular artist, creating riotous sketch/improv/entertainments that are liberally seasoned with an air of Commedia dell’Arte; this gives the immensely talented players the opportunity to act, sing, dance, improvise, and perform feats of acrobatic…
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CD Review: JAZZ LOVES DISNEY 2: A KIND OF MAGIC (Various Artists on Verve)
YOU CAN’T TOP PIGS WITH PIGS After The Three Little Pigs‘ runaway success in 1933, Walt Disney attempted a few more shorts starring the little porkers, but they weren’t as good, which led to one of the genius’s most memorable and telling quotes: “You can’t top pigs with pigs” — meaning sequels should be avoided. After the…
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Chicago Theater Review: BLKS (Steppenwolf)
BLKS — IT’S ABOUT WHTS TOO Nowadays it takes very little “disruption” to make a play a provocation. As Steppenwolf Theatre’s press release tersely puts it, “F**ked up sh*t happens.” Indeed it does — for over two hours in the tersely titled BLKS, a comedy of character crises by Aziza Barnes. Set in Brooklyn and Manhattan in…
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Chicago Theater Review: SAMMY: A TRIBUTE TO SAMMY DAVIS, JR. (Black Ensemble Theater)
WHAT KIND OF STAR AM I? Mr. Wonderful, the Rat Packer, Mr. Bojangles, the Candy Man — there was nothing “junior” about Sammy Davis. The latest retro reclamation by Black Ensemble Theater, Sammy: A Tribute to Sammy Davis Jr. is a pep-filled, song-packed, two-hour salute to an irrepressible entertainer. This pizzazz-packed phenom could sing, dance, act on…
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Los Angeles Music Review: BRUCKNER’S SEVENTH; MOZART’S PIANO 23 (Michael Tilson Thomas, Khatia Buniatishvili and the Los Angeles Philharmonic)
SEVENTH HEAVEN While he existed in the Romantic Era, “Romantic” isn’t necessarily the word that springs to mind when I hear an Anton Bruckner Symphony (except perhaps his Fourth, actually titled Romantic). His giant mesmerizing symphonies, nine in total, are closer to religious experiences (a devout Catholic who never married, Bruckner dedicated his unfinished Ninth…
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