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Bay Area Theater Review: PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (TheatreWorks in Palo Alto)
NOT ONLY WILL YOU FLOAT OUT OF THE THEATER, YOU MAY EVEN FLY Have you ever wondered how the original “lost boy” became Peter Pan and what his life was like before flying out the Darling’s nursery window with Wendy, Michael and John in tow? Adapted by Rick Elice, with musical interludes by Wayne Barker,…
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Event Tour Preview: SHEN YUN 2015 (Hollywood, Northridge, Costa Mesa, Thousand Oaks, Long Beach)
SHEN YUN RETURNS TO SO CAL Inspired by the spirit of an ancient culture, Shen Yun Performing Arts brings to life classical Chinese dance and music in a gloriously colorful show. With an elite company of dancers, singers, and musicians, the New York-based Shen Yun returns to Southern California in January and February 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UtxvkD3Krg…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: ONCE UPON A BRIDE THERE WAS A FOREST (Flux Theatre Ensemble)
FOREST ENTRY After her car breaks down during a storm, Josie (a sympathetic Rachael Hip-Flores), a young woman searching for her father years after he mysteriously vanished, happens upon a creepy old house in Kristen Palmer’s Once Upon A Bride There Was A Forest. In order to gain admittance to the dwelling, so that she…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE CLEAN HOUSE (Remy Bumppo at Greenhouse Theater Center)
HUMOR CAN BE HOLY When, earlier this year, I saw Bluebird Arts’ revival of Sarah Ruhl’s magically realistic domestic drama, I couldn’t grasp the buzz behind her successful whimsy. Yes, it had played Goodman Theatre and a previous production at the Athenaeum Theatre, but it seemed consumed by its own quirks. Happily, a definitive delivery…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE CHRISTMAS SCHOONER (Mercury Theater Chicago)
THIS SCHOONER SAILS IN ON YULETIDE EUPHORIA A joyous holiday tradition, The Christmas Schooner has been warming Chicagoan hearts for nearly two decades. Following a lengthy run at Bailiwick Theatre from 1996-2008, it now happily resides at the Mercury Theatre since 2011. L. Walter Stearns directs the present production, Eugene Dizon provides musical direction, and…
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Off-Broadway Music Theater Review: ON BEHALF OF NATURE (Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble at BAM)
BEHALF AND HALF Personal works of art, in which the artist must invent a new language all her own to communicate her unique dreams, are, for me, the most valuable kinds. But one consistent characteristic of such creations is that this language, being new, is often partly or wholly inaccessible to the public. At 72,…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: FLARE PATH (Theatre 40)
FLARE DONE WITH FLAIR Unlike Sherwood’s Idiot’s Delight (1936), Terence Rattigan’s Flare Path (1941) is not an anti-war play. Both take place in a hotel and have a rich variety of characters, but while Sherwood’s Pulitzer-winner is a clear commentary on mankind’s fear, idealism, self-indulgence, and foolishness, Flare Path is a slice-of-life period piece whose…
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Chicago Music Review: HANDEL’S MESSIAH (Apollo Chorus of Chicago at Orchestra Hall & Harris Theater)
HANDEL WITH CARE Talk about a 135-year labor of love! This all-volunteer choir’”founded in 1872 after the Great Chicago Fire and performing at the opening of the Auditorium Theatre in 1899 and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition’”must sing. Since 1879 they’ve devoted untold hours of rehearsals and performances to their signature rendition of Handel’s masterpiece,…
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Film Preview: THE CONTENDERS (MoMA’s Film Series at the Hammer Museum)
DON’T SAY, “I COULDA BEEN AT THE CONTENDERS” For the past seven years, the Film Department of New York’s Museum of Modern Art has scrutinized releases, searching for the select few films from the previous 12 months which qualify for the end-of-the-year screening series known as The Contenders. Whether mainstream movies, independents, foreign-language films, documentaries, or…
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Chicago / Tour Opera Review: WILLIAM TELL (Teatro Regio Torino at the Harris Theater)
TELL US SOME MORE Turin, Italy’s Teatro Regio Torino opened its first ever North American tour with a magnificent concert performance of Gioachino Rossini’s William Tell at the Harris Theater on December 3. Energetically conducted by musical director Gianandrea Noseda, the four-stop tour continues with performances in Toronto, New York, and Ann Arbor. William Tell…
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Chicago Dance Review: THE NUTCRACKER (Joffrey)
CHRISTMAS CHESTNUTS NEED A NUTCRACKER Even though the second half of this holiday favorite actually seems set in spring (with the “Waltz of the Flowers” as chief evidence), its warmth is never more welcome than in winter. Tchaikovsky’s tale of plucky Clara’s defeat of the wicked mice and her rescue of a now-human Nutcracker born…
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Los Angeles/Regional Theater Preview: SHE LOVES ME (The Chance Theater in Anaheim)
EVERYBODY LOVES SHE LOVES ME I’ll be the first to admit that it may be impossible to create a bad production of the 1963 jewel-box musical She Loves Me. This perfect show, based on the 1937 play Parfumerie by Miklos Laszlo, is so resplendent, so charming, and so well-constructed that a 2011 gathering of literati…
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Chicago Theater Review: PANIC ON CLOUD 9 (The Second City’s 103rd Revue)
NOT TOO FAST TO FEEL This latest revue from Chicago’s comedy empire won’t be confused with its 102 predecessors. The Second City’s Panic on Cloud 9 isn’t half as frenzied as the title implies. For one thing, there are fewer and longer sketches, and they don’t all end in punch lines or exit laughs. Often…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: INTO THE WOODS (Oregon Shakespeare Festival at the Wallis)
THIS WOODS DELIVERS THE GOODS Somewhere between “Once Upon a Time” and “Happily Ever After” there is a very adult world of tests, losses, disappointments, and grief. Despite this, we assert our agency; or as the baker’s wife sings in Into the Woods, “If you know what you want, then you go and you find…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: TWILIGHT ZONE UNSCRIPTED: HOLIDAY VERSION (Impro Theatre)
CROSS OVER INTO IMPRO’S TWILIGHT ZONE After last year’s crop of run-of-the-mill Christmas plays, I swore off any theater that even alludes to the holidays. Now, I must eat my words. Opening tonight and running through Dec. 21, those daringly innovative long-form improvisers, Impro Theatre, bring Twilight Zone UnScripted: Holiday Version to The Carrie Hamilton Theatre….
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Los Angeles Theater Review: LUNA GALE (Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City)
A REALLY GOOD LIFETIME MOVIE ON STAGE Chicago Theater comes to L.A. lock, stock and barrel with the Goodman production of Rebecca Gilman’s Luna Gale. A winning cast’”led by the remarkable Mary Beth Fisher’”and Robert Falls’ taut direction validate how Chicago artists can turn a problematic (though certainly engaging) script into a likeable and at…
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Chicago Theater Review: H.M.S. PINAFORE (Hypocrites)
THE HYPOCRITES PLAYFULLY ROCK THIS BOAT A nautical joyride of musical mayhem, belly laughs, and unadulterated fun, this world premiere adaptation of H.M.S. Pinafore completes The Hypocrites’ Gilbert & Sullivan trilogy. (If you missed the company’s previous productions of Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado, you can catch remounts running concurrently with H.M.S. Pinafore.) Founding…
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Chicago Theater Review: SHINING CITY (Irish Theatre of Chicago; formerly Seanachaí Theatre Company)
ARMACOST LIGHTS UP THE NULLITY OF SHINING CITY Hot on the heels of Steppenwolf’s production of Conor McPherson’s newest play The Night Alive comes Irish Theatre of Chicago’s current production of McPherson’s Shining City (2004). Both plays share certain similarities: ironic titles, unexpected endings, sex workers, tense situations, and a preoccupation with life beyond the…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: STAGE AND CINEMA’S TOP HOLIDAY CHORALE CONCERT PICKS, 2014
TESTED AND APPROVED Whether amateur or professional, containing sacred pieces or hummable traditionals, a cappella or accompanied by orchestra or just piano, the list of worthy chorale holiday concerts in the Los Angeles area numbers more than 40 this year. Allow me to whittle down your choice of choral affairs by offering the Stage and…
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Chicago Theater Review: BUDDY COP 2 (Pavement Group at Theater Wit)
IF THERE’S A BUDDY COP 3, THEN THERE IS NO GOD Strange doings happen for arbitrary reasons in the police station in Shandon, Indiana, the setting for an inconsequential one-act called Buddy Cop 2. Penned by the Brooklyn-based playwriting team of Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen (who call themselves the Debate Society), this Midwest premiere…
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