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Bay Area Dance Preview: SWAN LAKE (The Australian Ballet at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley)
SWAN IN A MILLION Featuring a live performance by the Berkeley Symphony with guest conductor Nicolette Fraillon, The Australian Ballet’s Swan Lake comes to Zellerbach Hall this weekend, October 16-19, 2014. While this is one of the world’s favorite ballets, expect this rendition’”created by Australian choreographer Graeme Murphy’”to be unlike any that have come before….
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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: LYING (Blessed Unrest at The Interart Theatre)
TRUTH IN LIES “I exaggerate,” states Lauren (Jessica Ranville) at the beginning of Lying, which gets a delightful staging by Jessica Burr and her company Blessed Unrest at the Interart Theatre. Matt Opatrny’s exciting and intelligent adaptation of Lauren Slater’s Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir follows Lauren from age ten into her twenties. She recounts her…
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Film Review: CITIZENFOUR (directed by Laura Poitras)
LAST YEAR’S BIGGEST STORY IN THE WORLD For a movie that spends several cloak-and-dagger days during June 2013 inside that famous Hong Kong hotel room with NSA contractor Edward Snowden and Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, journalist/filmmaker Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour is a surprisingly dull watch. Snowden is a photogenic young man of great eloquence, in his…
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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: TEMPEST (La MaMa)
TEMPESTUOUS AND TAME The Tempest offers a kaleidoscope of intrigue, betrayals, political shenanigans, murderous intent, monsters, masques, mayhem, magic, and romance. Julie Taymor’s disappointing 2010 big-screen, big-budget version proved that head-spinning CGI-candy is not enough to make all of these ingredients satisfying. Working with a stripped-down stage at La MaMa, director Karin Coonrod puts her…
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Los Angeles / Tour Theater Review: THE MAGIC FLUTE (Isango Ensemble at The Broad in Santa Monica)
SOME MAGIC IS ADDED, SOME MAGIC IS TAKEN AWAY South Africa’s Isango Ensemble is undoubtedly full of talented actors, singers, and musicians, but doesn’t quite have the specialized skills required to pull of Mozart’s masterful The Magic Flute (Impempe Yomlingo). While the production doesn’t aim for a straightforward rendering of the original, it does retain…
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Chicago Theater Review: ALICE (Upended Productions)
ALICE IN ANDERSONVILLELAND Fall down the rabbit hole of the thoughtfully absurd Alice, written and directed by Noelle Krimm. This performance’”a reprise of the popular 2004 staging’”showcases work by multiple companies as well as individual artists. Loose interpretations of Alice in Wonderland’s twelve chapters are executed in local businesses, alleys, and street corners. Upon arriving at…
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National Tour Theater Review: JERSEY BOYS (Pantages)
BOY OH BOYS With a career spanning over five decades, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons have amassed an impressive catalog, including numerous #1 hits (“Sherry,” “Walk Like a Man”) and over 100 million record sales worldwide. Furthermore, countless covers have been done of the group’s work that extend far beyond the pop rock genre,…
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San Francisco Theater Review: DO I HEAR A WALTZ? (42nd Street Moon)
DO I FEAR A WALTZ? Musicals are generally “lost” for any one of a number of reasons: the libretto may be filled with once topical socio-political humor now meaningless to contemporary audiences; it’s too expensive to produce; the score may have gone out of fashion; or the show itself just doesn’t work. The latter is…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE WILD PARTY (Bailiwick Chicago at Victory Gardens)
PARTY LIKE IT’S 1928 A riot from start to finish, Bailiwick Chicago’s The Wild Party is a breathless, exuberant, fast-paced production running for an hour and forty minutes without pause or intermission. Based on New Yorker editor Joseph Moncure March’s narrative poem of the same name, Michael John LaChiusa’s musical adaptation is a colorful celebration…
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Chicago Dance Review: SILVER (River North Dance Chicago’s 25th Anniversary Fall Engagement)
EARNING THEIR FUTURE At 25 years young, River North Dance Chicago is as old as its current dancers, most born when it began. They grew up to find the perfect home for their non-negotiable talent. Celebrating that quarter century at River North’s Harris Theater home, Frank Chaves’s troupe displays its wares with a program featuring…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: BITCHES (The Magnum Players in West Hollywood)
BITCHY, BITCHY If you like your camp served by the bucket, then this outlandish tour de farce is steaming with it. Imagine if you will one of those appalling movies from the 1990s in which a group of Mean Girls reign supreme and battle for the role of Top She-Devil in their school’s cheerleading squad….
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San Diego Theater Review: BRIGHT STAR (Old Globe)
THERE’S A BRIGHT STAR SOMEWHERE ON THE HORIZON It takes a while to get on board with Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s new musical at The Old Globe. In fact, emotional involvement by intermission is as distant as the Big Dipper. It’s certainly not a complete wash up before the second half, but the unwieldy…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: BEETHOVEN CYCLE FINALE WITH DUDAMEL & ANDSNES (LA Phil)
JOURNEY ON Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes comes to Disney Hall this weekend, October 9-12, to join conductor Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale in an assuredly uplifting program: The Beethoven Cycle Finale. By presenting Beethoven’s Fifth and final Piano Concerto, Andsnes offers the final leg of The Beethoven…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: LOCALS ONLY! (World Premiere at Santa Monica College)
MORE OF A LOCAL THAN AN EXPRESS Written and conceived by Emmy-award winning producer Bill Borden (High School Musical, Desperado), Locals Only! is a new musical that follows the story of two star-crossed lovers who amorously pursue their blossoming love relationship amidst a culture clash that arises between their respective beach and Valley posses. The…
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Chicago Opera Review: CAPRICCIO (Lyric Opera)
THIS CAPRICCIO IS NO CAPRICE The brooding romanticism of Capriccio’s opening sextet sets the tone for the introspection that is to follow. Instead of a dramatic overture and crowd-pleasing arias, composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) aims to say something meaningful about opera itself. In that sense, it’s an incredibly self-conscious and self-referential work’”postmodern even. Essentially an…
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Chicago Theater Review: BOTH YOUR HOUSES (Remy Bumppo at Greenhouse Theater Center)
CAPITOL CRIMES “A plague on both your houses!” Without naming either political party, that’s just what Maxwell Anderson wished over 80 years ago through his Pulitzer Prize-winning Both Your Houses. Retrieved from 1933 and given Last Week Tonight urgency by the ever exemplary Remy Bumppo troupe, this well-made play is quite a contemporary departure from…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: DAVID AND LEEMAN (Magic Castle)
TRICKSTERS WHO ARE A TREAT From Vegas extravaganzas to intimate parlors, my favorite magicians are those with personality and humor. Even when tricks are well-rehearsed and mindboggling, slick illusionists tend to omit the magic that comes from a rapport with the audience. Regardless of impressive sleight-of-hand or how many animals emerge from a coat pocket,…
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Los Angeles Dance Preview: SWAN LAKE (The Australian Ballet at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion)
SWAN IN A MILLION Featuring a live orchestra, The Australian Ballet’s Swan Lake comes to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion this weekend, October 9-12, 2014. While this is one of the world’s favorite ballets, expect this rendition’”created by Australian choreographer Graeme Murphy’”to be unlike any that have come before. This dazzling production is one of The…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: UNCANNY VALLEY (59E59 Theaters)
AN UNCANNY PERFORMANCE FROM ALEX PODULKE In Thomas Gibbons’ Uncanny Valley, directed by Tom Dugdale, Alex Podulke plays Julian, a sophisticated artificial human, who was created for the purpose of having his mind implanted with a dying billionaire’s consciousness in order that the billionaire may live on. Claire (Barbara Kingsley) is the neuroscientist tasked with…
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San Francisco Theater Review: IDEATION (San Francisco Playhouse at the Kensington Park Hotel)
THE GREATER GOOD When is “enough” enough? Where do you draw the line? How far would you be willing to go for the “Greater Good”? These are some of the difficult questions posed by playwright Aaron Loeb’s darkly hilarious and deeply disturbing satire, Ideation, which opened San Francisco Playhouse’s 12th season. Originally developed and produced…
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