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Los Angeles Theater Review: CHILDREN OF EDEN (Cabrillo Music Theatre in Thousand Oaks)
FAR MORE EDENIC THAN I EXPECTED You would think that if Stephen Schwartz (composer/lyricist of Pippin and Wicked) wrote a musical with John Caird (adapter of Les Misérables and Candide), we would have seen a production of it — or at least heard of it. But shows that haven’t played Broadway rarely make it into the public consciousness….
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Chicago Theater Review: MARY PAGE MARLOWE (Steppenwolf Theatre Company)
PUZZLE PIECES OF A PERSON Snapshots from a family album, jump cuts from a movie, scattered entries from a constant journal’”it’s hard to get a fix on Mary Page Marlowe, a very different offering from Tracy (August: Osage County) Letts. It’s enthralling too–because this new memory play from Steppenwolf Theatre Company, captivatingly captured by Artistic…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: SISTER ACT (Musical Theatre West in Long Beach)
NUNBEARABLE Deloris, a pushy, smart-alecky, malopropism-spouting black woman, is disguised as a nun as she awaits a court date to squeal against her gangster boyfriend. Her background as a nightclub entertainer makes her perfect to convert a convent of silly oddball sisters into a kick-ass choir — one which turns a cash-strapped church into a…
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Chicago Theater Review: HILLARY AND CLINTON (Victory Gardens Biograph Theater)
DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL, DON’T GO Lucas Hnath, a disconcertingly popular scribe, writes playful, pseudo-historical, and narrative-heavy dramas crammed with deliberately stilted, primer-prose language. Composed of simple sentences, Hnath’s almost childlike dialogue teems with shock-effect revelations and marinates in methodical sentimentality. He’s “repurposed” Walt Disney, Isaac Newton and Anna Nichole Smith, trivializing them for our…
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Theater Review: RIVERDANCE (20th Anniversary Tour)
TWENTY YEARS OF HARD-HEELED HOOFING What Stomp delivered through percussive street-dancing, Forever Tango gave to Argentina’s national cooch dance, and A Chorus Line and 42nd Street did for tap, Riverdance breathtakingly offers Irish dance and its cultural spin-offs. Wowing rapt crowds at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre in its 20th anniversary world tour, this high-hoofing extravaganza can…
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Chicago Theater Review: MOSQUE ALERT (Silk Road Rising at the Historic Chicago Temple Building)
NOT IN MY DOWNTOWN Mosque Alert, an explosive world premiere, is seen’”and felt’”from all sides. Jamil Khoury’s culture-clashing creation depicts a suburban showdown, a battle over whether to replace a beloved old library with a state-of-the-art (Islamic) community center and mosque. The locale for Silk Road Rising’s invaluable offering is the huge village of Naperville,…
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Regional Music Preview: TANGO SONG AND DANCE (Augustin Hadelich, Joyce Yang and Pablo Sainz-Villegas in La Jolla and Irvine)
NOT YOUR AVERAGE VIOLINIST; NOT YOUR AVERAGE TANGO Coming up on April 15 and 16, 2016, in Irvine and La Jolla, acclaimed violinist Augustin Hadelich will be joined by dazzling pianist Joyce Yang and dynamic guitarist Pablo Villegas for an evening of Spanish-themed music built around André Previn’s three-part piece Tango Song and Dance, written…
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Tour Theater & Film Preview: HISTORIA DE AMOR (Teatrocinema at REDCAT L.A. and MCA Chicago)
AMOR MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU’RE SORRY Based on the graphic novel of the same name by French writer Régis Jauffret, Historia de Amor, which opens this Thursday, March 31 at REDCAT in L.A., addresses the hardly distinguishable boundary between reason and madness, love and domination. An English teacher abducts the young Sofia and…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE LIFE OF GALILEO (Remy Bumppo at Greenhouse Theater Center)
DISRUPTION 1633 It’s intriguing but frustrating that Bertolt Brecht refuses to dramatize the most potentially powerful moment in The Life of Galileo. (It’s like presenting Romeo and Juliet without a love scene.) That’s the setup and depiction of the Italian physicist/astronomer’s most infamous defeat’”when, in 1633, under threat of torture from the Inquisition, the great…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE EFFECT (Barrow Street Theatre)
THE EFFECT OF GREAT THEATER In Lucy Prebble’s captivating two-act, The Effect, crisply directed by David Cromer, 20-somethings Connie (Susannah Flood) and Tristan (Carter Hudson) meet as test subjects in a clinical study of a new anti-depressant. On the surface it seems they would make an unlikely couple ’” he’s an unemployed free spirit with…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: DREAMGIRLS (La Mirada Theatre & Valley Performing Arts Center)
KEEPING THE DREAM(GIRLS) ALIVE Dreamgirls opened on Broadway in 1981, won six Tony awards, and ran for nearly four years. Since then, the Michael Bennett musical has been revived, presented in concert, revised, made into a movie, played at high schools, community and regional theaters, and toured. Now at La Mirada Theatre we get a revival of…
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San Diego Theater Review: THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (Cygnet Theatre)
GIVE YOURSELF OVER TO ABSOLUTE PLEASURE Those familiar with the movie version of The Rocky Horror Show may be shocked to find that there is no typo in the title of the stage version: Here, there is no “Picture” before “Show.” Before anyone had thoughts of a movie about the gang from Transsexual Transylvania, there…
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CD Review: THE GOLDEN APPLE (First Full-Length Recording on PS CLassics)
A GOLDEN RECORDING It only took 61 years, but, but PS Classics and the Lyric Stage in Irving, Texas have conspired to make legions of musical theater fans happier than the first time they heard the overture to Gypsy. Back in 1954, a long-neglected masterpiece-of-a-musical you’ve probably never heard of was written by two geniuses you’ve probably never heard…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: BROKEN FENCES (The Road on Magnolia in North Hollywood)
FENCES THIS AIN’T We are taught that tolerance is a virtue, that common ground is not only findable but a state of mind. We are taught that our obligation is to our neighbor as much as to ourselves. We learn in school, or in church, that home is the foundation of community. We know it….
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National Tour Theater Review: MATILDA THE MUSICAL (Oriental Theatre in Chicago)
MIND OVER MUSIC Imagine Annie with psychokinetic powers, Nancy Drew as a mind-reader, or Cinderella acting as her own fairy godmother. Self-empowerment of the Mulan persuasion fuels this upbeat, knock-down, pell-mell 2011 musical. A multi-Tony and Olivier award winner, Matilda the Musical is now on its first national tour, a Broadway in Chicago presentation at Chicago’s…
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National Tour Theater Review: A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (Ahmanson)
KISSING KILLING COUSINS Serial killers can be fun. In the film Theatre of Blood Vincent Price sardonically played a Shakespearean actor, a hate-filled ham who doggedly “offs” the critics who panned him, snuffing out each scribe in endgames inspired by the Bard (don’t get any ideas). Who’s Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? was a less important…
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CD Review: MISIA (A New Musical on PS Classics)
ALMOST 70 YEARS AFTER IT WAS WRITTEN, PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD VERNON DUKE MUSIC IS ORCHESTRATED AND RECORDED For over half a century, record companies have given the studio treatment to long-shuttered musicals which had either no original cast album or no complete score recording. Producer Tommy Krasker has gone so far as to track down original orchestrations…
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Los Angeles Dance Preview: EVIDENCE/A DANCE COMPANY (The Broad Stage in Santa Monica)
FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE WHEREVER IT LEADS Evidence, A Dance Company is recognized nationally and internationally for its fusion of African dance with contemporary choreography and storytelling that combines Cuban, Caribbean, West African and modern American dance movement. A selection of signature works from its repertory will be performed to tell the story and mark the extraordinary…
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CD Review: TONY YAZBECK: THE FLOOR ABOVE ME (PS Classics)
TONY’S TOWN Prior to his 2014 Tony-nominated turn as Gabey in the hit revival of On the Town, current Broadway sensation Tony Yazbeck created with Howard Emanuel an autobiographical cabaret, The Floor Above Me, at 54 Below and Birdland. The triple-threat had already made a name for himself in revivals such as A Chorus Line (he showed…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE BACHELORS (Cole Theatre at Greenhouse Theatre)
BOYS WILL BE PIGS Stop the presses for a late-breaking alert: Men can be crude, drunk, womanizing wretches. This astonishing revelation fuels the bottom-feeding 75 minutes of Caroline M. McGraw’s utterly unedifying exposé. The Bachelors, a Midwest-premiere black comedy from Cole Theatre at the Greenhouse Theater Center, would only be news on Uranus. Erica Weiss’s…
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