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Los Angeles Theater Preview: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC IN CONCERT (Colony Theatre)
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC; A VERY SHORT RUN; A MOST ACCOMPLISHED CAST Get ready for the wit, sophistication, and gentle eroticism of this most worldly and elegant of American musicals. The story is worldly, charming, and rueful—emotions eloquently displayed by Stephen Sondheim’s score, and abetted by Hugh Wheeler’s astounding book. A Little Night Music is an…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY UNIT AT MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER OF NEW YORK CITY (Geffen)
DON’T ARGUE WITH ME, I HAVE CANCER As the play begins, two women are asleep in hospital beds in a shared room with a curtain drawn between them. A tightly wound young woman, Karla (Halley Feiffer) is on one side of the curtain, with the younger of the two patients. She is an aspiring comedian,…
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San Diego Theater Review: WILD GOOSE DREAMS (La Jolla Playhouse)
FLYING WITH BROKEN WINGS It’s amazing. Thousands of billions of electronic messages are delivered every month globally, but it doesn’t feel like a small world after all. For many, these missives—texts, e-mails, IMs—are the illusion of connecting, and so the world feels more pummeling, pushy and precarious than ever. To wit, survey after survey indicates…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: FOOTLOOSE (Glendale Centre Theatre)
FOOTLOOSE AND FANCY FREE Based on the 1984 film Footloose, this eponymous musical opened on Broadway in 1998. Both adaptation and jukebox musical, in which songs sometimes land willy-nilly without thought to plot advancement and character (that’s SO old-fashioned, isn’t it?), this fish-out-of-water, stranger-changes-stuffy-town dance show doesn’t have to be examined too closely. It’s a…
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San Diego Theater Review: THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS (Cygnet)
THE EFFECT OF GOOD THEATER “You know, maybe someday you will be pretty,” says Beatrice to her teenage daughter Tillie. Gee, thanks, Mom. Ah, mothers. The Glass Menagerie. Ordinary People. Carrie. Where would theater and film be without the power of dysfunctional mothers? Who better to yield fascinating children, be they adult or still young,…
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Chicago Theater Review: BULLETS OVER BROADWAY (NightBlue Performing Arts Company at Stage 773)
A THUG BECOMES A MUSE “Fish out of water†humor meets showbiz stereotypes—that’s the gag-winning formula in the 1994 film  Bullets Over Broadway, starring John Cusack, Jennifer Tilly, Diane Wiest, Mary-Louis Parker, and a wonderful Chazz Palminteri. It was Woody Allen’s twisted Valentine to the “Great White Way†and the flappers, gangsters and dreamers who made…
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San Diego Theater Review: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN (Welk Resorts Theatre in Escondido)
ALONG CAME THIS SPIDER Defying torture and humiliation in a Latin American prison, two cellmates—seeming enemies—build a passionate friendship and a larger loyalty. Hollywood visions become escapist illusions, binding dramatic opposites: an apolitical gay window-dresser and devoted mama’s boy named Molina—serving eight years for sex with a minor—and Valentin, a straight, unrepentantly newly jailed idealistic…
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Chicago Theater Review: DEIRDRE OF THE SORROWS (City Lit at Edgewater Presbyterian Church)
FACING FATALITY It’s the last play written by John Millington Synge. This Irish minstrel-playwright died in 1909 at only 37 after penning stunning beauties—Riders to the Sea and his masterpiece The Playboy of the Western World. Synge never saw his final offering Deirdre of the Sorrows. (It was last done in Chicago 100 years ago.) So it’s not surprising…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE HEAVENS ARE HUNG IN BLACK (Shattered Globe Theatre)
A STUNNING RECLAMATION OF OUR 16th ’”AND BEST’”PRESIDENT Right now—bar none—the most stirring chronicle on a Chicago stage is Shattered Globe Theatre’s enthralling 155-minute The Heavens Are Hung in Black at Theater Wit. Whether history as drama or drama as history, this two-act offering from Pulitzer Prize nominee James Still distills 1862—a pivotal year in the Civil…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: DAYTONA (Rogue Machine at the Met Theatre)
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT One of the brilliant things about Oliver Cotton’s Daytona, is how his dialogue both reveals and conceals at the same time. “Billy, are you in trouble?” Joe (George Wyner) asks his younger brother (Richard Fancy). “I’m 72 now,” is Billy’s answer, a response that says both everything and nothing. Upon learning…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: PIPE DREAM (Musical Theatre West in Long Beach)
A DREAM TO SEE THIS MUSICAL As Musical Theatre West will no doubt prove on Sunday, March 12 at 7, even a flop Rodgers and Hammerstein musical has its surefire appeal. Get ready to discover a score that was lost on the American public because the show itself was a turkey. With a live 14-piece orchestra,…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE AMERICAN MERCY TOUR (Greenhouse Theater Center)
WHEN MEDICINE GETS SICK “First, do no harm.” A no-brainer, this unarguable warning in the Hippocratic Oath apparently defies and defines the medical profession in 2017. Mercy Killings and Side Effects, well-targeted protest portraits written and performed by Michael Milligan, drive home its disillusionments, conflicts of interest, contradictions, betrayals and broken promises—both for patients and doctors. Determinedly directed…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: IPHIGENIA IN AULIS (Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades)
AULIS WELL AT THE GETTY Check out the production of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis by Chicago’s Court Theatre, and you’ll see why I rave about theater in the Windy City. Guided by the scholarship of translator Nicholas Rudall (founding artistic director of Court Theatre from 1971 to 1994), director Charles Newell has crafted a powerful…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE CIVILITY OF ALBERT CASHIER (Permoveo Productions at Stage 773)
BECOMING A “MAN” A brand-new musical about the past intersects the present with a vengeance. A world premiere from Permoveo Productions and Pride Films & Plays, The CiviliTy of Albert Cashier, now in a powerpacking debut at Stage 773, delivers a searing perspective on today. Its story and score fearlessly engage the recent ban on transgendered…
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San Diego Theater Preview: ACCOMPLICE (Scripps Ranch Theatre)
ACCOMPLISHED ACCOMPLICE Rupert Holmes’s Accomplice is the wittiest and most accomplished fooler play since Ira Levin’s Deathtrap. Each time you think you know what is unfolding you find yourself fooled again. As with Deathtrap, I have seen Accomplice more than once, and I still get swept along on a theatrical thrill ride that rivals the twists and turns…
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Chicago Theater Review: BONNIE AND CLYDE (Kokandy Productions at Theater Wit)
SYMPATHY FOR SCUMBAGS How can two white-trash lovers—“small town nobodies,” as the press release puts it—“search for meaning at the height of the Great Depression”? Patronize a soup kitchen, sell apples, get a job, hope for a “new deal”? Naw’”that’s suckers’ stuff. How about robbing stores and banks, shooting to death a dozen folks (cops…
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Chicago Theater Review: HONEYMOON IN VEGAS (Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire)
A PRETTY WOMAN GETS AN INDECENT PROPOSAL’” AND IT’S A MUSICAL! Some marriages get tested before they tie the knot. That’s trenchantly the case with naïve fiancés Jack Singer and Betsy Nolan, untried Brooklyn lovers whose plan for a honeymoon in Vegas goes artfully astray. A 1992 film with James Caan, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Nicholas Cage, Honeymoon…
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Los Angeles Opera Preview: CARMEN (LA Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion)
AN EXTRA PERFORMANCE AND A SIMULCAST: SHE JUST KEEPS ON GIVING This isn’t the first time LA Opera has opened a season with Carmen, but it is the first time that ticket sales are so great that an extra performance has been added before performances began. The run remains as September 7 through October 1,…
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San Diego Theater Preview: LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS (North Coast Rep in Solana Beach)
HE WHO LAUGHS AT LAST LAUGHS BEST Barney Cashman is a neurotic, shlubby, well-intentioned if somewhat misguided seafood restaurateur who feels his life and marriage have become too predictable, and attempts to spice both up with some hot action on the side. He sets up a makeshift bachelor pad at his ma’s place while she’s…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ (La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts)
IN HARLEM’S WAY “One never knows, do one?” That’s the favorite catchphrase of Fats Waller (1904-1943), an irrepressible master of music. The 285-pound, cherubic-cheeked jokester genius is the powerhouse presence and driving dreamer behind Ain’t Misbehavin’, the still irresistible 1978 tribute revue from Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby Jr. In this happy case, well, one do…
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