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Bay Area Theater Review: THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (TheatreWorks)
A HOWLINGLY FUNNY BASKERVILLES SPOOF IS MORE THAN ELEMENTARY It turns out that you can teach an old dog new tricks, proven by TheatreWorks’ contemporary stage-spoof treatment of the 1901 Sherlock Holmes classic The Hound of the Baskervilles. Initially, as a longtime fan of Holmes and Watson and of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s literature, I…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE LAST ACT OF LILKA KADISON (Falcon Theatre in Burbank)
INVENTIVE MEMORY PLAY COULD USE JUST A BIT MORE MAGIC Inspired by the work of Johanna Cooper’”a broadcaster who was commonly drawn to Jewish tales’”Nicola Behrman, David Kersnar, Abbie Phillips, Heidi Stillman, and Andy White based The Last Act of Lilka Kadison on a story recounted for the NPR series “One People, Many Stories.” It…
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San Diego Opera Review: DON QUIXOTE (San Diego Opera at the Civic Theatre)
SAN DIEGO OPERA’S SWAN SONG SPEAKS TO DREAMING IMPOSSIBLE DREAMS Don Quixote (“Don Quichotte” in its original French spelling) serves as a fitting final production with which to close San Diego Opera (SDO)’s distinguished history. Founded in 1950, the company staged its first production in 1965, regularly mounting four or five operas per season. Despite…
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Chicago Theater Review: OUR CLASS (Remy Bumppo)
THE BANALITY OF SURVIVAL A crowded creation, Our Class remembers the Holocaust by forgetting nothing. Intent on conscience-keeping, burning to reclaim a slice of history, this dogged docudrama, a generous-to-onerous Midwest premiere by Remy Bumppo, is Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s painstaking and pains-giving depiction of genocide in a microcosm (this is no Shoah, the 9-hour, 23-minute 1985…
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Chicago Theater Review: DEPRAVED NEW WORLD (Second City)
SECOND CITY DEPRAVED AND BACK ON TRACK Dark thoughts, insecurity and regrets may seem like particularly bleak material to base a sketch comedy show around, but their universality makes them strong subjects. Placed in the hands of the extremely talented cast performing on The Second City’s main stage, Depraved New World offers some huge laughs…
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San Diego Theater Review: RED (San Diego REP)
A BLINKING YELLOW FOR RED AT THE REP Is a soup can art? To Matisse, probably not. To Warhol, clearly yes. And to everyone else? Ah, that’s when we start getting into what art really is. Playwright John Logan’s Red looks deeply at this question from the perspectives of two very different men in 1958….
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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: LITTLE MAC, LITTLE MAC, YOU’RE THE VERY MAN! (Less Than Rent at the Kraine Theater)
MAC THE DULL KNIFE Under Charlie Polinger’s unremarkable direction, the often charming cast of Sean Patrick Monahan and James Presson’s vacuous tongue-in-cheek musical comedy Little Mac, Little Mac, You’re the Very Man! is unable to transcend the show’s systemic failings, never managing to elevate it to the level of being watchable. Based on John Gay’s The Beggar’s…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA (A Noise Within)
COME BACK TO A NOISE WITHIN The current production of Come Back, Little Sheba at Pasadena’s A Noise Within proves that William Inge’s breakout 1950 Broadway hit is still relevant today. The Tony Award-winning play (for actors Shirley Booth and Sidney Blackmer), later made into an Oscar-winning film, follows a middle-aged couple, Lola and Doc,…
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Chicago Theater Review: GOD’S WORK (Goodman)
FREED FROM A CELLAR The inception of this 2006 work from Chicago’s neighborhood-based Albany Park Theater Project is a remark made by a 14-year-old member of their youth ensemble: “I learned to love when I was 10 years old.” Her true-life story is the basis of APTP’s 80-minute cri de coeur, the fourth offering by…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Bristol Old Vic and Handspring Puppet Company at the Broad Stage)
WELL MET BY MOONLIGHT Some plays are just too good to be easily staged. In my experience Shakespeare’s most beloved comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, has defied more directors than it has rewarded. The thing requires so much attention, so much love, so much effort! You’ve got to create living worlds for three sets of…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: DOCTOR ANONYMOUS (Zephyr Theatre)
IS THERE A SHOW DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? There is a method of political activism called a “zap.” Basically, zaps are militant but non-violent face-to-face confrontations with persons in positions of authority, but when used in tandem with a media alert, they can be powerful weapons when furthering a cause. Since gay activists in the…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: MINIMALIST JUKEBOX FESTIVAL (presented by LA Phil)
MINIMALIST JUKEBOX OFFERS MAXIMUM JOY Minimalism. The very notion of this form of music can send some musical lovers running for the hills, while others see it the most exciting and wholly refreshing form of music in the world today. The Los Angeles Philharmonic is presenting an opportunity for you to decide for yourself. Through…
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Los Angeles Dance Preview: DANCE+DESIGN II: THE GENIUS OF FRED ASTAIRE (American Contemporary Ballet and Da Camera Society)
I’LL TAKE ASTAIRE’S WAY TO PARADISE The great ballet choreographer George Balanchine compared Fred Astaire to Bach, and Baryshnikov claimed Astaire gave him in inferiority complex. On April 5 and 6, the second program of the DANCE+DESIGN series will examine the beloved Fred Astaire and his extraordinary talent as a dancer and choreographer. This installment…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: THE CIVIL WARS (LA Phil: Rome section / Jacaranda: Minneapolis section)
NEWS FLASH! CIVIL WARS HITS LOS ANGELES! As part of LA Phil’s Minimalist Jukebox Festival, Jacaranda and the Los Angeles Philharmonic will be presenting two sections of Robert Wilson’s vast, ambitious, and unfinished opera, the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down. On April 5 in Santa Monica, the Minneapolis Section’”a…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: –˜S WONDERFUL: THE NEW GERSHWIN MUSICAL (Musical Theatre West)
HAVING A “‘S WONDERFUL” TIME It should come as no surprise that the song catalog of George and Ira Gershwin’”according to Los Angeles Times’”generates about $8 million a year. The treasure-trove of tunes created by the Gershwin brothers between the early 1920s and 1937, when George died, include “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off,” “Shall We…
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Chicago Theater Review: TRISTAN & YSEULT (Kneehigh at Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
MERRY PRANKSTERS’ MEDIEVAL MELTDOWN Cheeky, goofy and sassy as it “cocks a snoot” at a literary legend, this irrepressible import from Kneehigh, a brassy Cornwall theater, should be injected as much as enjoyed. And, though it affectionately mocks a classic love tragedy, it actually does respect tradition’”the legacy of Christmas pantomimes, Gilbert and Sullivan, music-hall…
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Los Angeles Dance Interview: HEIDI DUCKLER (Artistic Director and founder of Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre)
HEIDI DUCKLER OFFERS AN OASIS FROM CONVENTIONAL DANCE Well before her college-years dance training, Heidi Duckler danced as early as she could walk. “I’ve always been dancing,” she tells Stage and Cinema. “I went to Reed College. I went to Europe. I finally finished at the University of Oregon with a B.S. in Dance because…
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Los Angeles Music Review: RUEIBIN CHEN, PIANO: TOTAL RACHMANINOFF (The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
TOTAL IS LESS THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS The acclaimed Chinese-Austrian pianist Rueibin Chen is in the midst of a worldwide tour coinciding with the anniversary of Rachmaninoff’s birth 140 years ago, but there were three Rueibin Chens at his solo recital at the Wallis last Friday: There was Rueibin Chen, the fascinating interpreter…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: SHAKESPEARE UNSCRIPTED (ImprŠ Theatre at the Carrie Hamilton)
SHAKESPEARE WISHES HE WERE THIS FUNNY Mistaken identities, cross-dressing, puns, fart jokes and dick jokes and pussy jokes. You know where you can find these? Movies starring Saturday Night Live alumni. That’s about how funny they are: they’re not. And they’re about as funny as Shakespeare ever got. The only people who buy tickets to…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: CHARLATAN (Ars Nova)
BEWITCHED, BOTHERED, AND BEWILDERED In a way shows that are pure spectacle – acrobat, dance, magic – must achieve a higher level of virtuosity to be successful than, say, theatrical plays. Even a flawed play can be satisfying. An abundance of drama, for instance, can help take our attention away from the superficiality of the…
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