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Off-Broadway Theater Review: CAFÉ SOCIETY SWING (59E59 Theaters)
THE WORLD ON A SWING The year is 1948 and a hack reporter (the entertaining Evan Pappas), ordered by his editor to do a hatchet job on Barney Josephson and his revolutionary Greenwich Village nightclub Café Society, struggles over his typewriter trying to find an angle. Should it be Josephson’s Commie sympathies? His club’s unheard-of…
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Los Angeles Art Exhibit Review: HOLLYWOOD COSTUME (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences)
HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD COSTUME More than a celebration and appreciation of over a century of cinematic costume design, this exquisite exhibit is a piece of art unto itself. Surprisingly, Hollywood Costume goes beyond a Planet Hollywood-esque display of artifacts with a swanky, insightful, and exhaustive (but not exhausting) look into the creative minds who brought…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE MERRY WIDOW (Light Opera Works in Evanston)
IT DOESN’T GET ANY MERRIER THAN THIS This radiant revival is Light Opera Works’ fourth coming of Franz Lehár’s masterpiece from an earlier turn of the century. Rudy Hogenmiller’s sterling staging carries more than enough jubilation to make The Merry Widow a holiday delight. Running through the rest of the Old Year, this three-hour confection,…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: THE MAGNIFICENT DUNBAR HOTEL (Robey Theatre Company at LATC)
AN EXTRA CHANCE TO CHECK-IN With ticket sales hotter than the Great Chicago Fire, the even greater Robey Theatre Company has just announced an extension of their wildly popular, sold-out The Magnificent Dunbar Hotel — but only through Dec. 28, 2014, when it absolutely must close. Considering the logistics of compiling one of the biggest casts on…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: THE KLEZMATICS: HAPPY JOYOUS HANUKKAH (Disney Hall)
JOY VEY A figurehead in the folk movement, Woody Guthrie wrote hundreds of political, traditional and children’s songs, as well as ballads and improvised works. Yet how many of you know that Woody Guthrie wrote Hanukkah songs? Indeed he did, and in a pairing as richly diverse as Guthrie’s life itself’”from the plains of tiny…
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Los Angeles Art Exhibit Review: PIERRE HUYGHE (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
PIERRE IN WONDERLAND At the entrance to Pierre Huyghe’s retrospective at LACMA, a tuxedoed gentleman requested my name and then announced me to the exhibit as if I was entering a grand ball (Name Announcer, 2011). I was then greeted by a low-lit maze of angled and mostly stark white walls which led me down…
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San Francisco Theater Review: ELF THE MUSICAL (Curran Theatre)
MY KINGDOM FOR SOME INSULIN Known by many as “the most wonderful time of the year,” Christmas has richly earned its reputation for gooey sentimentality, decking the halls with mucho kitsch, and spreading good cheer to all of those people you’ve managed to ignore all year. Despite its questionable source material, Elf, Will Ferrell’s hit…
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Chicago Theater Review: CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE (Chicago Theatre)
YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A CHRISTMAS CIRCUS It’s dazzle central and a welcome return to Chicago by the one-ring, 20-feat Cirque Dreams performers, but only through December 21. Their extravaganza Cirque Dreams Holidaze lives up to all three names with a two-hour spectacular to charm even the most jaded brat or cynical adult. Wonder isn’t…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: LOVE, NOí‹L: THE LETTERS AND SONGS OF NOí‹L COWARD (The Wallis)
YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE, NOí‹L Noël Coward would have loved that his name appears twice in Love, Noël: The Letters and Songs of Noël Coward, which, having completely sold out its run at the swanky Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills, has just been extended. The entertainment interweaves his songs with personal letters sent between…
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Chicago Theater Review: AIRLINE HIGHWAY (Steppenwolf)
A POOR MAN’S LANFORD WILSON Only in New Orleans could a dumpy parking lot flanking a decrepit motel on a highway leading only to the airport be transformed into a lagniappe-soaked, Mardi Gras-festive party place. This ugly setting gradually gets festooned with colored lights, bunting, papier-mâché medallions, beer kegs, glitzy garlands, and loud jazz. “Laissez…
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National Tour Review: BLITHE SPIRIT (Ahmanson)
BIRD THOU SURE AIN’T NOW Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. – P.B. Shelley, “To a Skylark” If time had not shown that Noël Coward’s 1941 comedy Blithe Spirit is a funny play, one would not find…
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Cabaret Preview: A BROADWAY CHRISTMAS (Upright Cabaret at Catalina Bar & Grill in Hollywood)
A HOT CHRISTMAS Under boughs of holly and multi-media of silver and gold, stars and snowflakes will glitter as Upright Cabaret combines the Best of Broadway with the Carols of Christmas for the ninth annual A Broadway Christmas, which plays this Wednesday & Thursday, Dec. 17 & 18, at 8:30. Along with the extraordinary vocal talent…
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Chicago Theater Preview: BURNING BLUEBEARD (The Ruffians at Theater Wit)
THE HOTTEST SHOW IN TOWN One of the best-reviewed and most popular Christmastime shows, The Ruffians’ Burning Bluebeard, returns beginning tonight for three weeks only through Jan. 4, 2015, at Theater Wit. Pam Chermansky joins original cast members Anthony Courser, Molly Plunk, Jay Torrence, Leah Urzendowski Courser, and Ryan Walters to tell this fantastical tale…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: SOUL DOCTOR (Actors Temple Theatre)
DELIGHTFUL IN SPITE OF ITSELF Ordinarily, a musical with a book as superficial, obvious and corny as Daniel S. Wise’s Soul Doctor would make me cringe. Add to this David Schechter’s on-the-nose lyrics being juxtaposed against complex subjects like the Holocaust, institutionalized racial subjugation, and the person of Nina Simone, and I’d expect myself to…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: NORTHANGER ABBEY (Broad Stages in Santa Monica)
JANE AND HER PUPPETS The works of Jane Austen are delightful – and so are puppets. So, when you hear that this adaptation of Austen’s classic satire of gothic literature, Northanger Abbey, is actually performed by two actors, wielding seven puppets – well, what is not to like? If the notion of combining Jane Austen…
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National Tour Theater Review: NEWSIES
HAWKING HAPPINESS Winner of two 2012 Tonys for best score and choreography, the rampaging romp called Newsies is a special delivery indeed. It comes from the Disney dreamers who fleshed out The Lion King, Little Mermaid, and Beauty and the Beast. This screen-to-stage adventure is very well-fleshed out, with the most attractive, athletic cast since…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: TREY PARKER’S CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL (Coeurage Theatre Benefit)
COEURAGE, I COULD EAT YOU UP It is rare when a theater company lives up to its mission statement. Normally, the vision is so hifalutin as to be obscure. Luckily, Los Angeles has Coeurage Theatre Company, whose simple declaration blossomed into some of the best theater I have seen here. Formed in 2009 by Cal…
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Chicago Theater Review: PERICLES (Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
CST STAGES A FRESH AND FANTASTICAL PERICLES William Shakespeare is a man of many faces. To most, he is quite simply a master of the English language and one of the greatest playwrights who ever lived. To others, he is a crypto-Catholic who encoded his plays with hidden meanings. To some, he is a gay…
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Chicago Opera Review: ANNA BOLENA (Lyric Opera)
RADVANOVSKY IS REGAL IN ANNA BOLENA With so much filmed and written about the six wives of Henry VIII, the Tudor period is perhaps one of the most familiar eras in English history. Yet Gaetano Donizetti’s Anna Bolena manages to give us a fresh perspective by focusing on the transition between Anne Boleyn and Jane…
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Chicago Theater Review: TWIST YOUR DICKENS, OR SCROOGE YOU! (The Second City at the Goodman)
SUGAR PLUMS AND COALS’”ALL IN A VERY STUFFED STOCKING Goodman Theatre just got schizoid. On one end of its block-long Dearborn Street lobby is the Albert Theatre, where the sacred cash cow A Christmas Carol continues to attract traditional holiday lovers. But, on the north end, the black-box Owen Theatre is showcasing an unsubtle subversion…
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