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Film Commentary: BILLY WILDER’S OEUVRE TOTAL, PART V
JAWSING [Editor’s Note: Oeuvre Total is a film-discussion series between producer Michael Holland and critic Jason Rohrer, begun at Bitter Lemons and continuing here at Stage and Cinema. The first ten-part Oeuvre Total exchange concerns Billy Wilder. After we run the previously-published seven original entries new posts will appear in the coming weeks. The most recent was Part IV by…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: LAGRIME DI SAN PIETRO [TEARS OF ST. PETER] (Los Angeles Master Chorale at Walt Disney Concert Hall)
BRING ON THE TEARS Orlande de Lassus, Europe’s most famous musician during his lifetime, created nothing finer than the Lagrime di San Pietro, (Tears of St. Peter) a collection of twenty spiritual madrigals and one motet. A cycle of intense reflections on the sorrows of St Peter following his denial of Christ, it was assembled…
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Chicago Theater Review: LONGER! LOUDER! WAGNER! THE SECOND CITY WAGNER COMPANION (The Second City and Lyric Opera)
MAKING FUN OF OPERA FUN AGAIN This mostly satirical Lyric Opera/Second City co-production contains little irony apart from the title. For while it definitely IS about Wagner, it most certainly IS NOT loud or long (But why louder and longer anyway? Louder and longer than what?). This ninety-minute show comprises a series of interconnected sketches…
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Los Angeles Dance Preview: BODYTRAFFIC (The Broad Stage in Santa Monica)
“DEATH DEFYING DANCES” DEBUTS BODYTRAFFIC, the contemporary dance outfit headquartered right here in Los Angeles, has smartly scheduled three performances of its upcoming showcase of exciting new works–including a preview and a World Premiere–at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica. The last two times I saw this exciting company at the Broad, patrons were turned away…
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Film Commentary: BILLY WILDER’S OEUVRE TOTAL, PART IV
THE WORLD AFLAME [Editor’s Note: Oeuvre Total is a film-discussion series between producer Michael Holland and critic Jason Rohrer, begun at Bitter Lemons and continuing here at Stage and Cinema. The first ten-part Oeuvre Total exchange concerns Billy Wilder. After we run the previously-published seven original entries (Part III by Mr. Holland last week; Part IV by Mr. Rohrer below) new posts will…
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Chicago Theater Review: GROUNDED (Buena Stage @ Pride Arts Center)
COMMUTING TO KILL In The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe described a huge “sea change” when the space race went from fighter test pilots to astronauts. In the 1920s through 1950s, high-altitude records were achieved by derring-do hot shots like Chuck Yeager who could fly “by the seat of their pants.” As their exploits evolved into…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: BLUEBERRY TOAST (The Echo Theater Company in Atwater Village)
INCONVENIENT TRUTH A show as good as Blueberry Toast should be a city-wide phenomenon but it’s going up in Atwater Village, so not a lot of people from the West Side are going to see it before it closes next weekend. If you live in Glendale you have no excuse. But if you have to…
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Film Commentary: BILLY WILDER’S OEUVRE TOTAL, PART III
AUTEURIAL BLOOD [Editor’s Note: Oeuvre Total is a film-discussion series between producer Michael Holland and critic Jason Rohrer, begun at Bitter Lemons and continuing here at Stage and Cinema. The first ten-part Oeuvre Total exchange concerns Billy Wilder. After we run the previously-published seven original entries (Part II by Mr. Rohrer last week; Part III by Mr. Holland below) new posts will…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE: REVISITED (Davidson/Valenti Theatre in Hollywood)
STILL SEARCHING Is there life after Lily Tomlin? Producer Jon Imparato is attempting to find out: under his auspices, the Los Angeles LGBT Center is reviving The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Written for Tomlin, who won the 1986 Best Actress Tony for the original production, Jane Wagner’s one-woman play, which she…
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Los Angeles Cabaret Review: AN EVENING WITH KELLI O’HARA (Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge)
O’HARA SALON Broadway icon Kelli O’Hara ventured far west of the Great White Way Friday night to perform Broadway favorites and a few originals to a well-sold house at Valley Performing Arts Center, which is not only beautiful and glamorous, but has the finest sound of any concert hall I’ve attended. This captivating creature proved her timelessness by never resorting to…
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Chicago Theater Review: HAMILTON (PrivateBank Theatre)
OUR FUNKY FOUNDING FATHERS A hip-hop Alexander Hamilton? A beat-box Father of His Country? A jumping James Madison and a jiveass Jefferson who disses bigtime in a poetry slam? The ten-dollar bill will never be the same (or the dollar note for that matter). A sassy-spunky 2015 blast from the past set to irresistible rhythms,…
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Los Angeles Dance Preview: CELEBRATE FORSYTHE (Glorya Kaufman Dance at the Music Center)
WHAT I DID FORSYTHE LOVE The Music Center begins its 2016-17 dance season this Friday, October 21, 2016, with Celebrate Forsythe, a remarkable evening devoted to the works of William Forsythe. Equally special is that three separate ballet companies will each perform in the program. For more than 45 years, the innovative Forsythe has been broadening the world…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: DELUSION: HIS CRIMSON QUEEN (An Interactive Play)
DEFICIENT DRAMA DILUTES DELUSION In 2011, writer/director Jon Braver created Delusion, a new kind of haunted house. In the ensuing years (except last year, 2015, which was dark), with a different tale presented annually, Braver has brought Los Angeles a much-celebrated high-end Halloween attraction that is so popular that it now sells out before opening…
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Film Commentary: BILLY WILDER’S OEUVRE TOTAL, PART II
WILDER IN THE HOLE [Editor’s Note: Oeuvre Total is a film-discussion series between producer Michael Holland and critic Jason Rohrer, begun at Bitter Lemons and continuing here at Stage and Cinema. The first ten-part Oeuvre Total exchange concerns Billy Wilder. After we run the previously-published seven original entries (Part I by Mr. Holland last week; Part II by Mr. Rohrer…
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Film Review: KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES (directed by Greg Mottola)
THIS MOVIE HATES AMERICA Recently I’ve been feeling pudgy and middle-class. I live in Encino, I drive a Toyota, I bake cookies as a hobby. I ate a Trader Joe’s lamb vindaloo for lunch yesterday and complained it was too spicy. I have always felt that people like this are broken and not to be…
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Chicago Opera Review: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Lyric Opera)
PLEASE, SIR, I WANT SOME LAMMERMOOR Perhaps this season’s opening production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold raised the bar too high. Lyric’s follow-up effort doesn’t quite reach those celestial heights. And this comes from someone who much prefers Donizetti’s bel canto score. Indeed, this Lucia di Lammermoor is eminently enjoyable to listen to, boasting excellent performances…
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Chicago Dance Review: ROMEO AND JULIET (The Joffrey Ballet at the Auditorium Theatre)
A POLITICAL PROKOFIEV BRINGS R & J CLOSER TO HOME It’s been over two years since its Joffrey Ballet’”and U.S.–premiere. The Chicago troupe’s updated version of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet again re-roots the lovers in modernistic postwar Italy. Slick and lean, this literally black-and-white world (with a little maroon thrown in to suggest blood as much…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: THE SOURCE (LA Opera and Beth Morrison Projects at REDCAT)
REVEALING THE SOURCE There’s so much buzz about The Source, which opens at REDCAT next week, that an extra performance has been added (the show runs Oct.19-23, 2016). The most fascinating aspect of its popularity is that people I know who are attending are curious about something: What is this show really about? The Source, which premiered…
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Los Angeles Music Review: DUDAMEL AND BELL (Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall)
DUDAMEL AND BELL MORE THAN WELL Drop your plans this weekend and get to Disney Hall to witness conductor Gustavo Dudamel leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic in an astoundingly satisfying program. Fortunately, last night’s performance (which I’m happy to say was full to the brim with patrons), began a weekend of four performances through Oct.16. The draw here must…
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Los Angeles Dance Review: STRINGS ATTACHED (Voices Carry, Inc. at the Shakespeare Center of L.A.)
THE STRINGS THAT BIND At first, the geometric shape dangling from thin cables in the fly loft appears simply as an “X”. Manipulated by slightly concealed upstage puppeteers, this creation–made up of thin green slats connected by small o-rings–morphs like a piece of paper manipulated by an origami artist. Soon, it will become an animated, continually…
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