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Chicago Theater Review: A NEW ATTITUDE (Black Ensemble Theater)
PATTI QUAKES, PATTI SHAKES. PATTI GETS HER CAKES You can only listen and love: The former Patricia Louise Holt-Edwards oozes energy on stage. She kicks off her shoes in sheer delight. Loving jazz from the outside in, she sets style standards with each new wardrobe. An entrepreneur, she sells her own “Fancy Cakes” on the…
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Chicago Theater Review: PROMETHEUS BOUND (City Lit at Edgewater Presbyterian Church)
PROMETHEUS SETS THE STAGE AFIRE Imagination sometimes seems abstract. It’s a term you can’t always savor — until you see it blossom before you. It’s in full force in City Lit’s revival of Prometheus Bound, the surviving drama from Aeschylus’s trilogy dating back to the fifth century BC. A labor of love spanning 20 years, this eye-popping,…
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Theater Review: FOREVER BOUND (Atwater Village Theater in Los Angeles)
WHEN METAPHORS BECOME MONSTERS Art thrives when it dances on the edge of a razor — flaunting itself and teasing us — fully embracing the risk of toppling over at any moment and smashing itself to smithereens. In Forever Bound, a world premiere at the Atwater Village Theatre, playwright Steve Apostolina, director Anne Hearn Tobolowsky,…
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Chicago Theater Review: FLIES! THE MUSICAL! (Pride Films and Plays at the Pride Arts Center)
YOUR FLIES! IS OPEN The running joke behind this unauthorized musical based on a 1954 novel and a 1963 film is how it hides its homage: To avoid copyright infringement, we never hear “Flies” and “Lord” in the same sentence. Critics, happily, needn’t be so coy: A world premiere from Pride Films & Plays, Flies! The…
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Theater Review: THE IMMIGRANT (Sierra Madre Playhouse in Los Angeles)
BLENDING BANANAS AND BORSCHT Mark Harelik’s 1985 play The Immigrant is based on the story of his grandparents, Haskell and Leah Gorehlik, immigrants from Russia who settled in the tiny central-Texas town of Hamilton in 1909, and were the only Jews there. Haskell has arrived in America to escape the pogroms; now, he must gather…
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Theater Review: BELLEVILLE (Pasadena Playhouse)
SPLITSVILLE Five years after its world premiere, L.A. is just now getting Amy Herzog’s disturbing domestic thriller. Both praised and not, the controversy with this one-act has been more over the playwright’s construction — Herzog writes herself into a corner — than the subject matter. Was it worth the wait? For the first hour and a…
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Los Vegas Concert Review: AUDRA MCDONALD IN CONCERT (The Smith Center for the Performing Arts)
MCDONALD’S CHARM The last time I saw the captivating singer and actress Audra McDonald in concert, she sang the Bernstein/Comden/Green tune “I’m a Little Bit in Love” from Wonderful Town: “Mm–mmm! / It’s so nice to be alive / When you find someone who bewitches you.” And when you see her upcoming concert at the Smith…
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Chicago Theater Review: SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER (Raven Theatre)
NOT A TENNESSEE WALTZ The strangest thing about Suddenly Last Summer is that the main character is never seen. But, talked about for 90 minutes by two dangerously partisan women, he’s fully felt. So is the play’s dark discovery: “We all use each other –and that’s what we think of as love.” Jason Gerace’s taut Raven Theatre…
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Theater Review: THE BABY DANCE: MIXED (Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura)
AN UPDATED BABY IS STILL CAPTIVATING THEATER For all its melodrama, Jane Anderson’s The Baby Dance has always been one of my favorite plays since I first saw it at Pasadena Playhouse in 1990. Revisiting the show again at Actors Co-op years later only cemented my sentiments. A poor couple living in a Louisiana trailer…
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Theater Review: HONEYMOON IN VEGAS (Musical Theatre Guild in Los Angeles)
A HONEYMOON IN GLENDALE More fun than walking away a few bucks ahead from a black jack table, this pell-mell, silly-sweet, old-fashioned musical comedy (ya know, gangsters, lovers, Elvis impersonators, a curse) just couldn’t find an audience when it landed on Broadway in 2015. But that’s why we have Musical Theatre Guild, which takes rarely…
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Cabaret Preview: UNPLUGGED WITH SUSAN EGAN (Pasadena Conservatory of Music)
EAGER FOR EGAN It was sheer luck that I’ve been able to see Broadway Baby Susan Egan in over 10 shows since the mid-1980s. From intimate stages (Babes at the Matrix; Hello, Again at the Blank) to national tours (Bye Bye Birdie as Kim) to Broadway (Thoroughly Modern Millie and as the original Belle in…
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Cabaret Preview: CHITA RIVERA and SETH RUDETSKY (The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
WEST SIDE GLORY It’s a relief that Chita Rivera, one of the last great holdovers from the Golden Age of Broadway is still performing today, and you’ll get only one-night — Thursday May 10, 2018 at The Wallis in Beverly Hills — to see her as she reminisces and sings songs from her Broadway shows…
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London Theater Preview: KILLER JOE and KING LEAR (Trafalgar Studios and Duke of York’s Theatre)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT THIS SUMMER WITH TWO BIG SHOWS The West End, one of the great epicentres of the Theatrical world, is undergoing something of a renaissance these days. It has always popular with tourists and locals alike, but London’s own Broadway is increasingly putting on the most acclaimed and innovative shows on…
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Theater Review: BLUES IN THE NIGHT (The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
A BLUES REVUE A female-centric revue from 1980, Sheldon Epp’s Blues in the Night celebrates the melancholic but often very humorous songs of black American folk origin. The blues as we know them today developed in the rural southern US toward the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s as…
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Theater Review: SCHOOL OF ROCK THE MUSICAL (National Tour at the Hollywood Pantages)
KIDS RULE IN ENERGETIC ROCK There is an announcement before the start of School of Rock The Musical. After the expected exhortations against using electronic devices, we are assured that yes, indeed, the children are playing their own instruments live on stage. Cluing us in is smart, because once those kids get a chance to…
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Theatre Review: MACBETH (adapted and directed by Aaron Posner and Teller at Chicago Shakespeare)
A LOT OF BLOOD WILL OUT Blood will have blood. It also sells tickets. And the theater’s thirstiest sanguinary spectacle remains the unspeakable Scottish tragedy. The darkest doings the Bard could imagine infest Macbeth — regicide, betrayal, the slaughter of innocents. Restraint is lost on his tale of sound and fury. But, unlike life, it does not signify nothing….
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Chicago Theater Review: TO CATCH A FISH (TimeLine)
A ROTTEN KIND OF GUN CONTROL It’s an inhuman term, “collateral damage.” Usually it’s reserved for supposedly dispensable victims, necessary sacrifices for a nobler cause. But what if the bigger picture ain’t noble? Then, as Arthur Miller hauntingly says in the passive voice, “Attention must be paid.” In the inaugural offering from TimeLine Theatre Company’s Playwright…
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CD Review: GUITAR MUSIC OF MEXICO (Cecilio Perera, guitar; various composers)
SERENE, SEDUCTIVE, SENSUAL Perfect for background music at a Sunday brunch, Guitar Music of Mexico is an accumulation of almost-all late twentieth-century Mexican compositions for guitar, each played by the extremely articulate Veracruz guitarist Cecilio Perera. Similar in tone to the great Spanish works by Albéniz, Granados, Rodrigo and Turina – all of whom wrote…
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Chicago Theatre Review: BIRDS OF A FEATHER (Greenhouse Theatre)
A PLAY THAT POOPS ON ITSELF The animal realm (we won’t say kingdom) fairly teems with same-sex survival. In all, over 1,500 species experiment with alternative lifestyles: Sapphic seagulls, flaming flamingos, bisexual bottle-nosed dolphins, gender-bending giraffes, white whales, and — in Birds of a Feather — two gay birds. This Chicago premiere from Greenhouse Theater Center both celebrates…
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CD Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR LIVE IN CONCERT (Original Television Soundtrack)
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR RISES AGAIN, BUT ONLY PARTIALLY TO THE HEAVENS Not nearly as powerful and raw as it could have been, NBC’s live telecast “event” of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar – more music video than Broadway-style production – nonetheless has some admirable qualities — with one glaring pitfall. Astoundingly…
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