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Opera Review: LA BOHÈME (San Francisco Opera)
LES MIZ DIRECTOR JOHN CAIRD BRINGS LA BOHÈME TO SFO San Francisco Opera’s crowd-pleasing rendition of La Bohème, which opened on Friday night, offers vocal enchantment unhampered by a boiler plate production. It’s hard to go wrong (in general) with Giacomo Puccini’s 1896 opera–a relatively light tragedy buoyed with easy-to-love characters, provocative music, and a…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE WINTER’S TALE (Promethean Theatre Ensemble)
A NOT QUITE FRACTURED FAIRY TALE A late bloomer, Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale belies its adage that “A sad tale’s best for winter.” This tragi-comedy has a spring to it as well, contrasting the first act’s stern Sicilian-set tale of one ruler’s instant jealousy (which kills his wife and child) with, 16 years later, a…
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Los Angeles Music Review: RICHARD VALITUTTO | NAKHT (Piano Spheres at REDCAT)
A NOCTURNE BY ANY OTHER NAME To those of you who don’t know (or think that everything hip is only happening now), Piano Spheres has for nearly twenty years been one of the country’s few serious and consistent concert series focusing on new piano repertoire. Its Satellite Series offers recitals by four emerging L.A. pianists,…
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Chicago Theater Review: HELLCAB (Profiles Theatre)
GETTING THERE IS HALF THE FUN One of Chicago’s longest running, righteously rooted hits, Hellcab follows a strong and simple formula: Depict the encounters a Chicago cab driver experiences on a very cinematic Christmas Eve. We watch this tried and true cabbie in an actual yellow car (with the top cut away for an unobstructed…
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L. A. Music Preview: RENAISSANCE: REAWAKENED (Los Angeles Master Chorale)
AWAKENED AND REFRESHED Music was an essential part of civic, religious, and courtly life in the Renaissance. The rich interchange of ideas in Europe, as well as political, economic, and religious events in the period 1400–1600 led to major changes in styles of composing, methods of disseminating music, new musical genres, and the development of…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: A SILVER LINING (a Working Theater at Art Share L.A.)
SILVER DOESN’T EVEN GET A BRONZE It took fifteen actors, two writers, two directors, and three designers to create a Working Theater’s one-hour interactive theatrical experience, a Silver Lining (Matt Soson is co-director, co-writer, actor, and composer, so I assume it’s his baby somehow). With mannered acting, poor narrative-free writing, cheap-looking design elements, and bemusing…
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Chicago Theater Review: HOLMES AND WATSON (City Lit at the Edgewater Presbyterian Church)
THE SLEUTH, THE DIVA, AND THE NAPOLEON OF CRIME Over many seasons P.G. Wodehouse and Arthur Conan Doyle have been very good to City Lit, rightly since the theater fully returns the compliment. Reviving a past pleasure, director Terry McCabe’s sprightly adaptation of Holmes and Watson puts the cocaine-snorting, deduction-delivering master detective and his brusque…
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Music Review: VARÈSE’S AMÉRIQUES WITH MULTIMEDIA (Los Angeles Phil’s in/SIGHT series at Disney Hall)
THE LASERIUM OF THE 21ST CENTURY While the result of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s first in/SIGHT offering last weekend was mixed, the experimentation itself was a resounding success. Visual Artist Refik Anadol’s brand new multi-media fantasia accompanied Esa-Pekka Salonen’s vigorous and explosive rendition of Edgard Varèse’s Amériques, the final piece of an eclectic program titled…
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Bay Area Theater Preview: BREAKFAST WITH MUGABE (Aurora Theatre Company)
HAUNTED BY POWER Aurora Theatre once again proves its might by presenting the West Coast Premiere of a great play. Opening this week and running through Dec. 7, 2014, Breakfast with Mugabe takes on one of the most vilified but fascinating characters in world politics: Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe. A polarizing figure on the world stage,…
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Chicago Theater Review: MUD, RIVER, STONE (Eclipse Theatre Company)
GETTING ROOTS WRONG The Dark Continent just got a bit less light. Concluding their all-Lynn Nottage season (which featured Ruined and Intimate Apparel), Eclipse Theatre Company offers the sardonic parable Mud, River, Stone, a culture-clashing drama. Nottage stalwartly addresses the challenges faced by African-Americans who want to be both, specifically two upscale New York tourists…
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San Francisco Theater Preview: KURIOS – CABINET OF CURIOSITIES (Cirque du Soleil U.S. Premiere)
A CASE WHERE CURIOSITY WON’T KILL THE CAT Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, the global phenomenon Cirque du Soleil arrives at San Francisco’s AT&T Park for the U.S. Premiere of its 35th production: KURIOS – Cabinet of Curiosities. Utilizing the Montreal-based company’s trademark astonishment and enchantment, KURIOS, which runs November 14 – January 18, 2015, has…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: POWERHOUSE (Sinking Ship Productions at New Ohio Theatre)
SINKING SHIP SAILS IN UNCHARTERED WATERS My favorite element in Powerhouse, a delightful new devised play created by director Jon Levin, writer Josh Luxenberg and the Sinking Ship Ensemble, is the puppets: a cantankerous booby and a good-natured otter. The booby makes its first appearance when three 1940’s TV writers are brainstorming without success. Frustrated,…
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Theater Interview: RONNIE BURKETT (“The Daisy Theatre” presented by CAP UCLA at Ivy Substation)
HE’S GOT THE WORLD ON A STRING Last year, I saw an incredible theatrical production’”a puppet show no less’”that will stick with me for the rest of my life. Written, produced, designed, built, and performed by internationally renowned Canadian puppeteer Ronnie Burkett, Penny Plain was a touching, poignant, humorous, dark, and surprisingly heartbreaking look at…
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Tour Review: LEGENDS (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus)
SOME VERY MATERIAL MAKE-BELIEVE The self-described “greatest show on Earth” has now reached the greatest city on Lake Michigan. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s very literal Legends ups the circus ante by conjuring up even greater make-believe than animal acts and death-defying trapezes. We’re treated to somewhat cheesy recreations of Pegasus the Flying Horse…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: COMPLETENESS (Firefly Theater and Films & VS. Theatre Company)
COMPLETELY SMART The exciting and insightful writer Itamar Moses may be one of our brightest playwrights, yet he has astoundingly been given short shrift by the L.A. theater community. With over 10 produced plays (Bach at Leipzig) and musicals (Nobody Loves You and the upcoming The Fortress of Solitude with Michael Friedman at The Public), Moses…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: STICKS AND BONES (The New Group)
BRAWL IN THE FAMILY Ozzie (Bill Pullman) and Harriet (Holly Hunter) are living out the American dream. They have a house, a car, a TV, and two sons: happy-go-lucky high-schooler Rick (Raviv Ullman), and his older brother David (an intense Ben Schnetzer), who is off in Vietnam fighting for his country. The New Group’s revival…
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Los Angeles / Tour Dance Preview: BALLETBOYZ (Ahmanson Theatre)
LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE BOYZ Conquering the globe with appearances on stage and screen, BalletBoyz is one of the most audaciously unique and groundbreaking influences in modern dance. The distinctive style merges remarkable dance, both robust and nimble, with music and film. The UK company’s 2014 U.S.A. tour doesn’t make a lot of stops, but…
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Film Review: MANHATTAN ROMANCE (written and directed by Tom O’Brien)
WOODY OR WON’T HE? The new independent film Manhattan Romance, about the romantic relationships of New York City hipsters, centers on Danny (Tom O’Brien), a video editor who is trying to complete his no-budget camcorder documentary about the romantic relationships of New York City hipsters. Written and directed by the multitalented Mr. O’Brien, the movie boasts…
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Tour Theater Review: KING LEAR (Shakespeare’s Globe at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica)
MORE SINNED AGAINST At one point in act four, the disillusioned and blinded Gloucester refuses help along the road: “I have no way and therefore want no eyes.” It’s a line that Bill Buckhurst would have been wise to cut before directing a King Lear as wayward as the one that has landed in Santa…
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San Francisco Opera Preview: LA CENERENTOLA (San Francisco Opera)
GRANTING YOUR WISH FOR A FUN OPERA Gioachino Rossini’s Cinderella (La Cenerentola) was written in 1817 during the bel canto era when operas were written to showcase beautiful singing, and Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s charming witty, whimsical, and heartfelt San Francisco Opera production’”running November 9–26, 2014 at the War Memorial Opera House’”will showcase as Angelina (aka Cinderella)…
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