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Chicago Theater Review: A JEWISH JOKE (ShPIeL–Performing Identity at Victory Gardens)
A JEW WALKS INTO A COMMUNIST MEETING… Sometimes whistle-blowing can echo from the past. It’s never too late for a timely reminder that ignorance is no excuse. A 95-minute solo show by Phil Johnson and Marni Freedman, A Jewish Joke, now in a Midwest premiere by ShPIeL-Performing Identity, tellingly depicts a Jewish comedy writer on the…
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Regional Theater Preview: PARTNERS (Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach)
IT’S TIME TO PARTNER UP Pageant of the Masters, now in its 82nd year, is a singularly unique entertainment that has perfected the art of tableaux vivants (“living pictures”). With world-class designers and over 600 volunteers (including actors and a research team), this elegant and classy outfit’”equal parts museum, play, concert, and lecture’”re-creates for seated…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: RICHARD III (Independent Shakespeare Co. in Griffith Park)
A MORE CASUAL CRUELTY Richard III, the final play of eight of Shakespeare’s histories, has also been an ever-popular play. It offers one of the most coldblooded characters in all of literature, and is told with such compelling, exciting drama that its length can go virtually unnoticed (in Shakespeare’s canon, only Hamlet is longer). The…
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Los Angeles Event Preview: FORLANDO (Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills)
FORLANDO The Wallis and the Los Angeles LGBT Center will be presenting a one-time only concert in memory and support of the victims of the recent tragedy at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. The tribute takes place on Saturday, July 16, 2016 at The Wallis in Beverly Hills. FORlando includes musical performances by the Gay Men’s…
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Regional Theater Preview: A CHORUS LINE (Chance Theater in Anaheim)
THE MUSICAL WITH LEGS A Chorus Line remains as fresh as the day it appeared just over forty years ago, when the standard Broadway musical was already fading away, making room for the jukebox musicals and mostly hollow spectacles we are still forced to endure (Catstricide, anyone?). The miracle of A Chorus Line is that it is…
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Los Angeles Dance Preview: FIREBIRD (American Ballet Theatre at the Music Center)
ABT’S FIREBIRD SWOOPS INTO THE CHANDLER Making a rare visit to Southern California, American Ballet Theatre returns after a three-year absence to Los Angeles’s Music Center — but just for one weekend beginning Thursday July 7, 2016. For this engagement, the estimable company arrives bearing the great gifts of Alexei Ratmansky, whose production of Firebird centerpieces an all-Ratmansky program. The classic 1910 Igor Stravinsky…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: CELEBRATING THE 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF DREAMGIRLS (Broadway Under the Stars at Ford Amphitheatre)
IT’S YOUR DREAM NIGHT, GIRLS After nearly two years of renovations, I caught an early glimpse of the historic John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, one of Los Angeles’s top entertainment venues. With a new eatery, landscaping, soundwall (which blocks the 101 Freeway and Hollywood Bowl noise), and amenities for both artist and audience, the gorgeous performing venue under the stars…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Dead Writers Theatre Collective at the Athenaeum Theatre)
THE LIES THAT PASS FOR LOVE Many years ago, a half hour into the Body Politic Theatre’s revival of The Importance of Being Earnest a woman behind me very softly threw up. It was done so efficiently, even decorously, that it barely disturbed the patrons near her, let alone the performance. In a strange way…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE (Sierra Madre Playhouse)
BEE THERE The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has charmed audiences across the country with its effortless wit and humor. Featuring a fast-paced wildly funny and touching book by Rachel Sheinkin (Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Book) and a truly fresh and vibrant score by William Finn (Falsettos), this bee is one…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: GO BACK TO WHERE YOU ARE (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble)
HOLY DIONYSUS, GREENSPAN! Five-time Obie Award winner David Greenspan’s unique brand of gentle wit and exquisite lyricism will be on display when Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents the West Coast premiere of his meta-theatrical comic romance, Go Back to Where You Are, beginning July 9 and running through September 4, 2016. In Greenspan’s tender comedy, which…
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Chicago Theater Review: MAN OF LA MANCHA (Marriott Theatre)
FREEDOM BEHIND BARS: THE UNREACHABLE STAR JUST GOT REACHED A skeptic might argue that Man of La Mancha succeeds because it lifts the guilt of anyone who never read Don Quixote. (Two hours in a theater presumably beat two weeks in a study.) Forget the cynicism. The 1965 musical by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion…
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Chicago Theater Review: COMPANY (Writers Theatre)
KEEPING COMPANY— SONDHEIM’S BITTERSWEET BEST It’s the first musical in Writers Theatre’s sumptuous new $30 million-dollar home in Glencoe, a light-loving complex with a more spacious lobby than the somewhat cramped seating of its three-quarter mainstage. The Broadway consecration of this North Shore venue is, appropriately, a 1970 show about friends and strangers in desperate…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: STET (Abingdon Theatre Company at the June Havoc Theatre)
STET OFFENSIVE After watching Kim Davies’ inspired S&M play Smoke, about two young people connecting in the kitchen of a house in which a sex party is in progress, I became an instant fan. Full of lovely subtleties and ambiguities, Smoke is something to see, and if you get a chance to catch a production I…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: DISGRACED (Center Theatre Group at Mark Taper Forum)
ANYTHING BUT DISGRACEFUL Sometimes plays that win the Pulitzer Prize do so less for their content and more for the ideas they embody and the zeitgeist of their time. It’s just an added bonus when the work turns out to be a good play as well as a snapshot of a certain era or time…
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CD Review: SONGS FROM THE LION (Benjamin Scheuer on Paper Music Records)
A MANE EVENT Writer/performer Benjamin Scheuer’s one-man autobiographical song cycle, The Lion, has certainly caught fire since it premiered under a different name at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His very successful productions in New York and London have resulted in a current national tour which coincides with the CD release of his Songs from the…
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Theater Review: THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL (Pre-Broadway World Premiere, Oriental Theatre in Chicago)
BIKINI BOTTOM HITS THE HEIGHTS Upfront confession: I’ve never seen Nickelodeon’s 17-year-old SpongeBob SquarePants animation series. But my ignorance of this aquatic Sesame Street and its fishy fantasies (happily enlightened by two knowledgeable theater companions) actually helps to objectively judge the self-sustaining entertainment value of The SpongeBob Musical. Can this confection, now in a pre-Broadway…
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Regional Theater Review: DISTRICT MERCHANTS (Folger Theatre in Washington D.C.)
“IT SHALL GO HARD BUT I WILL BETTER THE INSTRUCTION” Deep into the world premiere of Aaron Posner’s variation on The Merchant of Venice last Saturday, Shylock pointed at me from the stage and demanded my name. I said, “Rohrer.” Shylock spent 30 seconds heaping calumny upon the name of Rohrer: “Dirty Rohrer, stupid Rohrer,…
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Chicago Theater Review: AN ANTHONY NEWLEY AND LESLIE BRICUSSE SONGBOOK (Theo Ubique)
THE CANDY COUPLE “The world belongs to the fools who dare to dream”: Reprising the crowd pleasure of music-hall euphoria and pantomime cut-ups with a charming quintet of Cockney buskers, An Anthony Newley – Leslie Bricusse Songbook is an endearing 80-minute confection from Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre. It turns No Exit Café, a music mecca…
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CD Review: BRIGHT STAR (Original Broadway Cast on Ghostlight Records)
BLUEGRASS MEETS BROADWAY Set in North Carolina, Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Broadway outing, Bright Star, interweaves the stories of two ill-starred couples, one in the 1920s and one in the 1940s. The cast album, released last month, highlights why the show has both a large fan base and detractors. The stories, as the cast…
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Chicago Theater Review: MAKE ME A SONG (Eclectic Full Contact Theatre)
OUT OF CONTEXT BUT EASY TO ADMIRE William Finn, a gay songwriter with wit and warmth (and second only to Sondheim), writes story ballads and situational numbers that teach as much as touch. Like two of their titles, they’re all about “Change” and “Heart and Music.” In his Tony-winning Falsettos (a merging of his March of…
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