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Tour Preview: DAVID SEDARIS (Royce Hall at UCLA)
FINDING DAVID SEDARIS For those unfamiliar with David Sedaris’ work, he is a prolific writer, mostly of satire and non-fiction. Many of his stories revolve around his personal life and family, though–as with any great writer, and by his own admission–he does tend to embellish. His latest book, however, is a departure from his collections of…
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Chicago Theater Review: JACQUES BREL’S LONESOME LOSERS OF THE NIGHT (Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre)
SONGS FROM THE BOTTOM OF A BOTTLE Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre really loves the sad songs of Jacques Brel. First came A Jacques Brel Revue: Songs of War and Love in 2005. Three years later they created Jacques Brel’s Lonesome Lovers of the Night, now revived by artistic director Fred Anzevino. Delivered by four ardently…
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San Diego Theater Review: WITHERING HEIGHTS (The Roustabouts at Diversionary Theatre)
HOW’S THE WITHER? (JUST IN CASE YOU WERE WUTHERING…) A complicated nineteenth-century story of love and retaliation, featuring 13 characters, could be tough to pull off in ninety minutes in any case. For playwrights and co-performers Phil Johnson and Omri Schein, the challenge is heightened by the pair opting to play all thirteen in their two-man show. It…
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Los Angeles Dance Review: TCHAIKOVSKY IN BALLET (American Contemporary Ballet)
BALLET’S HIDDEN BEGINNINGS “There is only now.” American Contemporary Ballet (ACB)’s Artistic Director, Lincoln Jones, quoted famed choreographer George Balanchine at the premiere of the company’s latest performance high above the Los Angeles skyline on the 32nd floor of downtown’s BLOC building. The quote described the fleeting nature of dance, which has always been difficult…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW (Rogue Machine at the Met Theatre)
A BRUTAL TRUE-LIFE EVENT IS THE BASIS FOR POWERFUL THEATER Katharine Cortez’ 80-minute take on the after-effects of the brutal slaying of 49 people at the LGBT dance-bar, PULSE, a year ago June 12th has been sensitively and provocatively directed by veteran Elina de Santos as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. In The Valley of…
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Chicago Theater Review: MOBY DICK (remount at Lookingglass Theatre Company)
THE WHITE WHALE RETURNS! You can’t keep a good cetacean down. Buoyed by the success of their 2015 inaugural production and national tour, Lookingglass Theatre Company (in association with The Actors Gymnasium) has re-raised the Leviathan. Herman Melville’s exploration of mutual evil indicts both the obsessed, increasingly inhumane Captain Ahab (“Vengeance is mine!”) and his…
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San Diego Theater Review: THE SPITFIRE GRILL (North Coast Repertory Theatre in Solana Beach)
GRILLED TO PERFECTION North Coast Rep’s rendition of James Valcq and Fred Alley’s simple musical The Spitfire Grill demonstrates two things: the redemptive power of acceptance, forgiveness and love; and just how a magnificent company can turn a problematic piece into a powerhouse of a revival. Released from prison, Percy (Aurora Florence) seeks a new life in Gilead, Wisconsin, a…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: CONSTELLATIONS (Geffen Playhouse in Westwood)
PARALLEL UNIVERSES AND THE PHYSICS OF LOVE I have a brother-in-law who is a mathematician and a brother who’s an astrophysicist. Both have tried to explain to me what they do, with little success. Solar winds, dark matter, and pure math remain as impenetrable to me as fantasy football. So, I approached Nick Payne’s Constellations…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: A SOLDIER’S PLAY (Sacred Fools Theater)
THE WAR WITHIN THE WAR As sturdily written and swiftly moving as it was in 1982, Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play remains an enduring testament to the home front battles that African-American soldiers fought during World War II, within their ranks as well as with white comrades in arms. It’s a kind of upfront, downhome…
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Chicago Theater Review: BETTE DAVIS AIN’T FOR SISSIES (Athenaeum Theatre)
THE STAR WHO WAS A CONSTELLATION “Stardust” was the name for what made Bette Davis shine. With playwright Jessica Sherr’s solo recreation of more than big eyes and flouncing cigarettes, the magic is back to cast a second spell’”if only for 70 minutes. Reimagining as much as recreating the cinema idol’s feisty hunger and jerky grace,…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: MYSTERY LIT: HOLMES, SHERLOCK, AND THE CONSULTING DETECTIVE (Santa Anita Train Depot)
ELEMENTARY BUT AMUSING Unbound Productions takes original material and sets it in vaguely similar settings using carefully-chosen actors and company directors; the company has been producing site-specific plays since 2008. Their latest concoction is an amusing mash-up (as they describe it) of three Conan Doyle short stories starring Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Inspector Lestrade, Irene Adler…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE PRIDE (The Wallis)
LOVING YOUR OPPRESSOR The audience is delighted when a character in Alexi Kaye Campbell’s beautifully written play The Pride tells another, “Stop sucking the dick of your oppressor!” It’s a moment of explosive clarity, in a work that never stops asking questions. Is it possible a gay man in closeted London of 1958 might live…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE INTERFERENCE (Rogue Machine at the Hollywood Fringe Festival)
THERE’S NO INTERFERING WITH GREAT THEATER What an extraordinary piece of theater was this Hollywood Fringe entry from Pepperdine University in Malibu. The Interference confronts the dilemma of how rape or other abuse victims can find justice in a corrupt world. Lynda Radley wrote this 75-minute piece with Pepperdine’s drama department in mind. The title…
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CD Review: CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (Original Broadway Cast)
FREE WILLY Imagine if cast recordings from the fifties and sixties recorded out-of-town tryouts, then changed material, then recorded the Broadway production, then changed material, then opened in London, then… well, you get the picture, or rather the sound. It gets frustrating these days when a show like Charlie and the Charlie Factory, which opened 4/23/17…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: FUCK TINDER: A LOVE STORY (Sacred Fools Theatre in Hollywood)
IT’S LIKE REAL LIFE, BUT BETTER About a decade ago, I was having a miserable time dating. The age of electronica was firmly in place, and chat rooms, lengthy bios, and requested cock shots were making me ill, and the cost-benefit was low to say the least. To quote Rodney Dangerfield, I gave up dating…
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DVD Review: HOME FIRES, Seasons 1 & 2 (PBS)
SUPERLATIVE HOME FIRES SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN EXTINGUISHED Alas, this fine British series from ITV, only lasted two seasons (seen in the states on PBS). A pity, that, as it gave valuable detail to the daily lives of the women and men in the English county of Cheshire during WWII. The 12 episodes of Home Fires, now available on DVD, are…
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Los Angeles Cabaret Review: BLACK & WHITE IN PARIS: A CABARET MUSICAL (Stage 12 at Sunset Las Palmas Studios)
OOH-LA-LA Where am I? Is this a dream? Just when you thought cabaret in Los Angeles was on life support comes this bar of gold at the Hollywood Fringe. Do not miss this extravaganza of refreshingly distinctive singers and dancers, the likes of which will not be around again soon. Inspired by the black-and-white photography of…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: ANDY: THE RED-NOSED WARHOLA (La-La Land Gallery)
THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT A WARHOL If you thought Pop Artist Andy Warhol only referenced and defined mass culture and consumerism through replicated images of Campbell’s soup cans and Marilyn Monroe, think again. Standing among Paddy Chayefsky as one of the most prescient mavens regarding culture and television, Warhol was a prolific writer’”and talker: In 1976,…
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Chicago Theater Review: PASS OVER (Steppenwolf)
PROVOCATION PLUS DISRUPTION– 2017 GETS ITS PLAY! Ever since artistic director Anna Shapiro took over Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the Chicago mecca hasn’t been afraid to upset an audience. Subversive fare like Good People, Linda Vista, Grand Concourse and Straight White Men discouraged easy expectations and shook up conventional assumptions of right and place. Pushing this…
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San Diego Theater Preview: KING RICHARD II (The Old Globe’s Lowell Davies Festival Theatre)
“For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.” Now through July 15, 2017, Robert Sean Leonard (TV’s House, The Old Globe’s Pygmalion) returns to the Old Globe in San Diego to take on the title role of one of the greatest of Shakespeare’s towering cycle of…
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