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Los Angeles Music Preview: I AM HARVEY MILK and CITY OF ANGELS: GMCLA’s 35th Anniversary Concert (Disney Hall)
GET READY TO BE MILKED In 1978, on the night of Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone’s assassinations, an unprecedented candlelight march brought mourners to San Francisco’s City Hall. The newly formed San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus canceled a rehearsal for their upcoming debut concert and opted to perform at the makeshift memorial service. It…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: ANDRONICUS (Coeurage Theatre Company in Silver Lake)
A BLOODY BUT WORTHWHILE MESS When Kenneth Clark asked of William Shakespeare, “who else has felt so strongly the absolute meaninglessness of life,” he illustrated the point with this speech of Macbeth’s: Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time, And all…
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Chicago Theater Review: SEUSSICAL (Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
HORTON HATCHES A HIT “Oh! The Thinks You Can Think!” proclaims this joyous romp as it proves what it belts. One of those powerful pensées is: “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” That truth from Dr. Seuss sits well with the kids flocking to Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Courtyard mainstage. Because Seussical is the kind…
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Chicago Theater Review: TWAIN’S WORLD (First Floor Theatre at Hugen Hall)
HIDDEN IN THE MASTER’S SHADOW The sardonically named Twain’s World (that hint of amateurism is to be heeded), this year’s week-long LitFest from First Floor Theatre is devoted to the works (first act) and life (second) of America’s crown jester, Mark Twain. Seven ten-minute plays written by local writers and staged by Chicago directors testify…
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Los Angeles Dance Review: ROMEO AND JULIET (National Ballet of Canada)
I DREAM’D A DREAM TO-NIGHT The National Ballet of Canada (TNBC), which presented its thrilling rendition of Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in 2012, returned to the Music Center last night with a gloriously Technicolor production of Romeo and Juliet, commissioned by TNBC’s artistic director, Karen Kain (the world…
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Los Angeles Music Review: JOSHUA BELL AND FRIENDS (LA Phil at the Hollywood Bowl)
BELL OF THE BOWL Violinist Joshua Bell has been known to hold old-fashion salon-type concerts in a performance space on the second floor of his renovated apartment in New York City. It had long been his desire to invite different kinds of artists and various friends and have an eclectic mix of people playing in…
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Chicago Theater Review: BRIGADOON (Goodman)
MUSICALS LIKE THIS OCCUR ONCE EVERY 100 YEARS What won’t some do to flee the ravages and anguish of war? In 1947, when Brigadoon confirmed the mutual genius of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, timing was everything: A second global conflict had just ended, leaving in its wake postwar angst and searing doubts that…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (L.A. Theatre Works at UCLA)
A HOT AUGUST CAST Having witnessed many Broadway hits at the beginning and end of their runs (and the touring companies they spawned), it is fair for me to say that the magic and crackling electricity accompanying subsequent casts is rarely the same. And so it has been for Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County, a…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: IN THE BOOM BOOM ROOM (Hudson Backstage in Hollywood)
DOOM DOOM DOOM In the Boom Boom Room is a David Rabe play that did not win a Tony in 1974. In it, Rabe demonstrates no particular affinity yet for female characters, of whom there are many. It is not subtle or quiet, but few Rabe plays are. In angry, long-winded street poetry, inarticulate folk…
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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE MYSTERIES (The Flea Theater)
THEATER AS A TEMPLE The Flea Theater commissioned 48 different playwrights to contribute short dramatic pieces to this tremendous production, which basically recounts all the narratives in the Bible from before the beginning of the universe to after its end. The cycle’s list of authors contains newbies to some unexpectedly major names, from David Henry…
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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: CLOWN BAR (Pipeline Theatre Company at The Box)
RAISING THE CLOWN BAR Did the TV series It give you nightmares for decades? Does the art of John Wayne Gacy make you tremble? Does dear old Bozo make you break out in hives? If you suffer from coulrophobia – a fear of clowns – then Clown Bar, a site-specific production full of energy and…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE TASTE OF IT (Ballybeg at Theatre 54 at Shetler Studios)
STORMY ROMANCE It is sometimes the case that the plays that seem the simplest – three characters, a few dusty flats, a tiny, shoe-box set in a miniscule theater somewhere on the 12th floor of a building off of Times Square – is the work that has the most depth. The Taste of It, John…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND & THE DUSTBOWL REVIVAL (Ford)
PRESERVED AND REVIVED I first visited New Orleans in August, 1978. I only had one night to spend in the French Quarter and swore I would take in every known debauchery in that short span. At that time, the legal drinking age was 18 in the Quarter (the federal government has since insisted it be…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: STUPID FUCKING BIRD (Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena)
GODDAMN CHEKHOV, AGAIN I suspect nobody really likes The Seagull except theater people. It established for the modern age some of the essential playwriting untouchables: a play about actors and writers, and plays, in which the value of art is a major theme? In which not only is acting used as a metaphor for human…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: GERTRUDE STEIN SAINTS! (Abrons Arts Center)
WHEN THE SAINTS COME DANCING IN Here’s a charming revue that sets to song and dance the words of the great poet Gertrude Stein, mistress of new language and one of the tremendous free spirits of the 20th century. If I were a critic of the heft and depth of, say, Stage and Cinema’s own…
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Chicago Theater Review: DEATH AND THE MAIDEN (Victory Gardens Theater)
A MAIDENLY DEATH Victory Gardens Theater’s Death and the Maiden is one of the most highly anticipated Chicago productions this year: Ariel Dorfman’s well-known play (made famous by Roman Polanski’s film) is rarely done, and stars Sandra Oh, who recently left her recurring role in the primetime drama Grey’s Anatomy. Oh plays Paulina Salas, a…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: MOBY ALPHA (Charles at the Hollywood Fringe Festival)
SOBER CANNIBALS, DRUNKEN CHRISTIANS This show made me wish I had chosen to sit through Lost Moon Radio’s Million Dollar Hair again. If this sounds like faint praise, it is; I did not enjoy Million Dollar Hair. But Moby Alpha, as conceived and performed by Seattle sketch comics Chuck Armstrong and Charlie Stockman, is unfunny…
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Theater Obituary: RICHARD (RIC) MONTEJANO
“THIS JOURNEY IS MINE” Richard (Ric) Montejano was born on September 22, 1949 in San Gabriel and grew up in Van Nuys and then La Habra. In the late 1970’s, he found his true community in Silver Lake, CA where he lived as a creative artist, entrepreneur, and activist on his own terms, chasing his…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE BULLPEN (The Playroom Theater)
PRO AND (EX-)CON In telling his true-life tale about being convicted of attempted murder and released following a hefty prison term, Joe Assadourian is proof that you can be a crook and still be a tremendously talented actor. And, really, I don’t suppose anyone should be surprised at this idea. Acting is merely the art…
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Bay Area Theater Preview: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (California Shakespeare)
EXPECT NO ERRORS IN THIS COMEDY One of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, The Comedy of Errors is also his shortest and most farcical. In fact, while scholars argue over the classification of other Bard works, there is no denying that this play’”based on the works of Roman playwright Plautus, considered to be the inventor of low…
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