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Los Angeles Music Review: JESíšS LÒPEZ-COBOS & GARRICK OHLSSON (LA Phil at Disney Hall)
DREAMY There were some noticeable threads in three seemingly disparate works presented at Disney Hall. The program consisted of Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony — one of the great listener favorites in the entire canon of Romantic symphonies; Brahms’ impellent, magnificent, and demanding First Piano Concerto; and the West Coast premiere of Spanish composer Cristóbal Halffter’s Tiento…
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San Diego Theater Review: WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING (Cygnet Theatre)
WHEN IT RAINS, IT SOARS Let’s start with the unavoidable down-side so we can end with the up-side. While Cygnet Theatre’s When the Rain Stops Falling is spectacular, it is terribly complicated and confusing. It’s challenging enough that the 2008 play time-jumps across four generations, sometimes with different actors playing the same character, but Australian playwright Andrew Bovell purposely holds…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE HAIRY APE (Oracle)
THE DESCENT OF MAN AS DRAMA Another incendiary offering from Oracle Productions, Monty Cole’s bold take on Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape is pugilistic and powerful. In his athletic tour-de-force, a vibrant sextet stomp, leap, clamber, dangle, and swing like the title from stage-wide scaffolding. For all its force and fury, this latest Ape never…
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Chicago Theater Review: LE SWITCH (About Face Theatre at Theater Wit)
COMMITMENT CRISES FUEL A CRACKLING COMEDY Many, many gay plays since Stonewall have pitted fidelity against promiscuity, love against sex, and, nowadays, marriage against friendship. Same-sex weddings have clearly intensified the painful choice between “sexual outlaw” and legal spouse. If children aren’t reason enough to keep folks together after sex wears thin, is sheer devotion?…
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Los Angeles Cabaret Preview: CHRISTINE EBERSOLE: BIG NOISE FROM WINNETKA (The Wallis)
CHRISTINE EBERSOLE COMES TO THE WALLIS Two-time Tony award-winning actress Christine Ebersole has really done it all. I’ve seen her on the Broadway stage, on television, in films and concerts, and own her many recordings. Not only is she one of our most captivating performers, but she’s funny as all get-out. I still recall her amazing 1993…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: HAM: A MUSICAL MEMOIR (LGBT Center’s Renberg Theatre)
CARVING A “HAM” Direct from a critically acclaimed off-Broadway run, Harris’s HAM: A Musical Memoir makes its West Coast debut at the LGBT Center’s Renberg Theatre this Saturday, January 23, 2016. But the show can only last so long (as with any great ham, even if its refrigerated), so this strictly limited engagement will close on February 7. Tell me you remember…
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Chicago Theater Review: BYE BYE BIRDIE (Drury Lane)
EVERYTHING’S FINE IN ‘59 It’s as welcome as flowers that bloom in the spring: A cascading, minute-by-minute hit, Bye Bye Birdie is a showcase for happiness even as it merrily mocks the pseudo-innocent “togetherness” of the Eisenhower Era and the scary advent of rock ‘n’ roll. For coy or legal reasons, Elvis Presley never gets mentioned in…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: EMPIRE (La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts)
A MUSICAL THAT REACHES FOR NEW HEIGHTS Built during the Depression between 1930 and 1931, the Empire State Building became the world’s tallest office building’”surpassing the Chrysler Building by a whopping 204 feet. The design of the building changed 16 times during planning and construction, but 3,000 workers completed the building’s construction in record time:…
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Chicago Theater Review: SUNSET BABY (TimeLine)
LEARNING TO BE LOVED The past clashes with the future in Dominique Morisseau’s Sunset Baby, a drama more of reckoning than reconciliation. Despite her rage at the father she thinks deserted both her and her late mother in the name of impossible idealism, a daughter is forced to face a legacy of radical activism. Inevitably, a…
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Los Angeles Dance Preview: LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO (Carpenter Center)
THE TROCKS ROCK! As part of their worldwide tour, one of the most original troupes on the globe is coming to Carpenter Center in Long Beach this weekend. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, affectionately know as “The Trocks,” are not just men in tutus and pointe shoes going for laughs (although even their title “the…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE MUTILATED (A Red Orchid Theatre)
ANOTHER WALTZ WITH TENNESSEE Tom “Tennessee” Williams never buried his treasures. The ultimate, unashamed “bleeding heart,” this passionate playwright put his soul and guts into every show he ever wrote–actually into every character, with contagious compassion and dependable shocks of recognition. Sometimes, his works even capture his state of soul while writing them. Few do…
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Los Angeles Music / Film Preview: JUSTIN KAUFLIN & QUINCY JONES (The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
IT JUST KEEPS ON KEEPIN’ ON This Friday, January 22, Clark Terry protégé and jazz pianist Justin Kauflin will be appearing at the Wallis in Beverly Hills for one night only. Following an 8pm screening of Keep On Keepin’ On, Alan Hicks’ ode to the friendship between the prodigious lifetime Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Clark Terry and Kauflin (see…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE GILDED AGE: A TALE OF TODAY (City Lit)
TOO TRUE TO BE NEW Subtitled “A Tale of Today,” Mark Twain’s early novel The Gilded Age was written in (and from) 1873, a dozen years before Huckleberry Finn rafted down the Mississippi. A conventional potboiler, its chapters were presumably grabbed from headlines detailing the scandalous Grant administration. Mr. Clemens’ 630-page epic, which anticipates Gore Vidal’s insider…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: PAL JOEY (Musical Theatre West in Long Beach)
YOUR PAL IS COMING TO TOWN Sassy and brassy Pal Joey is a wondrous rouser that spins the tale of a roué gone rotten in Depression-era Chicago. As part of its Reiner Staged Reading Series, Musical Theatre West is presenting Rodgers and Hart’s original 1940 version of their masterwork, and I promise a glorious revival at CSULB on Sunday, January 24 at 7. With…
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Tour Review: 1984 (The Broad Stage in Santa Monica)
THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT IS, OR ALL’S ORWELL THAT ENDS ORWELL When the meek and paranoid everyman Winston Smith scribbles “Down with Big Brother” in his journal, he soon blossoms into a determined and impassioned rebel. But taking a stand in the dystopian superstate of George Orwell’s sadly timeless 1984 hardly creates the happy endings we see in today’s books, films,…
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Chicago Theater Review: MUTT (Stage Left Theatre and Red Tape Theatre at Theater Wit)
A SERIOUSLY STUPID SCREAMFEST Premiering in politically correct San Francisco in 2014, Christopher Chen’s cartoon drama purports to address multi-culturalism in politics. This two-act trifle focuses specifically–and improbably’”on two Asian-American presidential candidates from both parties. (I guess Latino or African-American “mixed race” prospects weren’t available.) A blatant and simplistic satire of race-baiting and identity politics,…
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Chicago Theater Review: NO WAKE (Route 66 Theatre Company at Greenhouse Theater Center)
BAGGAGE HANDLING Unprocessed pain can supply grist enough for a playwright’s mill. But an unprocessed play is a lot less. Alas, there’s little design for loving in William Donnelly’s No Wake, its plot almost an exact replica of Noël Coward’s famous 1933 comedy. Deficient at supplying the psychological context for its emotional payoff, this 80-minute one-act, richly…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: CAPITOL STEPS (Carpenter Center in Long Beach)
A CAPITOL IDEA FOR THIS WEEKEND One of the funniest troupes in the country resides in our nation’s capitol–hence the name Capitol Steps. For almost 35 years, they have skewered and satirized our political shenanigans in a take-no-prisoners fashion. They take pop songs and musicals to parody politics and current events, but every time I see…
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Tour Theater Review: BULLETS OVER BROADWAY THE MUSICAL (North American Tour)
BULL FROM BROADWAY In keeping with the never-ending trend of turning films into Broadway musicals, Douglas McGrath and Woody Allen’s 1994 comedy, Bullets Over Broadway, has been turned into a jukebox musical. It may have flopped on Broadway but, as with the disastrous If/Then before it, producers must know that tickets will be bought for this disappointing dreck,…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: NICHOLAS McGEGAN & SEAN CHEN (Pasadena Symphony)
A CLASSICAL UNFINISHED EMPEROR In a program in which familiarity breeds joy, the Pasadena Symphony begins the New Year with three of the most popular pieces in the repertoire, led by the insanely affable and exuberant Nicholas McGegan: Prokofiev’s short but mighty Classical Symphony, Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, best known…
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