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San Francisco Theater Preview: INTO THE WOODS (San Francisco Playhouse)
DELIVERING THE GOODS WITH INTO THE WOODS 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 a baker’s wife sings in Into the Woods, “If you know what you want, then you go and…
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Chicago Theater Review: ANNAPURNA (Profiles)
TILL DEATH DO US RECONCILE In little more than an hour Sharr White pulls off a (one) act of forgiveness, reuniting estranged partners in a foul trailer in Paonia, Colorado. The unpromising setting, delivered in detail by set designer Katie-Bell Springmann, is a sty surrounded by dog shit where anything good has to fight against…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE OLD WOMAN (starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe at BAM)
RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE AS SURREAL BURLESQUE Delightful wouldn’t be a word I’d expect to use when describing a Robert Wilson show. But The Old Woman, adapted by Darryl Pinckney from an absurdist story by Daniil Kharms, and performed by Mikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe, is just that. Whimsical, darkly funny, and disquieting throughout, Wilson’s striking spectacle…
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Chicago Theater Review: APES OF WRATH (The Second City e.t.c. at Piper’s Alley)
A JUICY CLUSTER OF APES There are no simians in Apes of Wrath, Second City e.t.c.’s new revue at Pipers Alley’”but then, as always, the jokes are on us. The vague premise behind this trenchant, well-targeted sketch satire is that humans are specks in an uncaring universe–so it’s better to light your Chinese lanterns (as…
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Film Review: SIDDHARTH (written and directed by Richie Mehta)
IN THE LAND OF MUNDANE FILMMAKING, SUBJECT MATTER IS KING Having difficulty making ends meet fixing broken zippers on the streets of New Delhi, Mehendra (Rajesh Tailang) sends his 12-year-old son Siddharth to work at a factory in a distant city for a month. But when the boy doesn’t return as scheduled and his parents…
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CD Review: WEST SIDE STORY (San Francisco Symphony, First Ever Complete Concert Performance)
I HAVE A LOVE Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony have just released a live recording of the first ever complete concert performances of West Side Story. I wanted to make sure that I gave the two-disc set four listens before writing a review. Why? I’m biased. The 1957 original cast album…
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Original Cast CD Review: HERE LIES LOVE (Nonesuch)
MEGALOMANIA WAS NEVER SO MUCH FUN Move over Evita, there’s another Queen of Hearts in town. And she likes diamonds too. I’m talking about Imelda Marcos’”she of the thousand pairs of shoes’”who is the centerpiece of a dazzling new pop operetta by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim. It’s currently the hottest ticket in New York….
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Chicago Theater Review: THIS IS OUR YOUTH (Pre-Broadway Run at Steppenwolf)
ORPHANS OF THE RICH No one captures the volatile complexity and fragile bravado of mixed-up young adults better than the angry young plays of the 20th century. In Look Back in Anger, Dealer’s Choice, Stupid Kids, and subUrbia lost generations find dead-ends they either deserve or don’t. This Is Our Youth, Anna Shapiro’s pile-driving (and New…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE CAVE: A FOLK OPERA (Three Clubs Lounge / Hollywood Fringe)
CAVE-IN The press release refers to The Cave as being inspired by Beauty and the Beast and Persephone. In Greek mythology, Persephone was abducted by Hades, the god-king of the Underworld. But this Fringe entry takes place not in Hell but an imagined abode of souls who have departed life as we know it: The…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD (A Cuppa Tea at The Complex / Hollywood Fringe Festival)
A WORLD APART FROM TYPICAL FRINGE FARE Like a breath of fresh air, Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World far exceeded my expectations of both the Fringe and Brown’s uneven song cycle. This is an early work from the Tony-winner for Parade and Bridges of Madison County. “It’s about one moment,” Brown said….
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Los Angeles Theater Review: FIRST ELDERS (APT 3F at Asylum Theatre / Hollywood Fringe Festival)
FAR FROM FABULOUS A young gay man named Charlie has had a breakup. Feeling despondent, he enters an empty theater and performs a ritual aided by a copy of Witchcraft for Dummies. He conjures an erstwhile college professor, Armand, to be his guide to the other world. Armand summons five older archetypal gay men (the…
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San Francisco Music Preview: DAZZLE: BROADWAY… OUR WAY! (San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus)
GIVE US THE OL’ RAZZLE DAZZLE There are some perfect pairs in entertainment: Laurel and Hardy, Bert and Ernie, Simon and Garfunkel, Gumby and Pokey, Cheech and Chong, and Shaggy and Scooby come to mind. But you would be hard-pressed to find a better combination than Gay Men and Show Tunes. And who better to…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: LINDEN ARDEN STOLE THE HIGHLIGHTS (Asylum Theatre, Hollywood Fringe)
LINDEN HOPS Based on the lyrics of Van Morrison’s “Linden Arden Stole the Highlights,” Colin Mitchell’s one-man play of the same name may have a sketchy narrative, but a combination of genuine acting by the author and Christian Levatino’s knowing and unobtrusive direction make this 1-hour first-person account of a San-Francisco-drug-dealer-turned-Scotland-recluse a persuasive event. It’s…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: …HE WROTE GOOD SONGS (Hollywood Fringe Festival at the Asylum Lab)
CANDY MAN Yes, this is a superficial “And then I…” retelling of Anthony Newley’s life, but Jon Peterson’s one-man outing at the Hollywood Fringe Festival is fun, escapist fare. In addition, audiences unfamiliar with the composer, actor, and one-time husband of Joan Collins should be flabbergasted by the gorgeous standards Newley left us (especially the…
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San Francisco Cabaret Preview: ONE NIGHT ONLY CABARET (Club Fugazi in North Beach)
ONCE NIGHT ONLY Pretend for a moment that One Night Only Cabaret wasn’t a fundraiser for both Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation (REAF). Pretend that you were simply going to a cabaret which just happened to headline cast members of the national tour of Once (now playing at the Curran Theatre)….
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (The Public Theater in Central Park)
MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING YOU WANT TO SEE If one were only to see Shakespeare as produced by The Public Theater at the Delacorte Theater, it would be easy to come to the conclusion that all of the Bard’s plays take place in bucolic settings. This is due to the brilliantly inventive way that The…
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Los Angeles Dance Preview: LES NUITS (Ballet Preljocaj U.S. Debut at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion)
SWEET AND SALTY NUITS Since the creation of the Company Preljocaj in 1984, Angelin Preljocaj has become an international superstar; some refer to the French-born Albanian choreographer as the “New Diaghilev” (in French, his name is pronounced prel-zho-KAHJ). Since founding his company’”now named Ballet Preljocaj and currently composed of 24 dancers’”he has created 48 choreographic works, ranging…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: PENELOPE (Rogue Machine Theatre)
ITHACA John Perrin Flynn and Brenda Davidson’s production of Penelope is so vivid that it’s hard for me to imagine the play in any other presentation – even though I’ve recently seen another that had its own strengths. Flynn’s direction is unequivocal, authoritative. He finds the excitement and narrative drive carefully laid underneath Enda Walsh’s impossibly…
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Opera Review: MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Center Stage Opera)
A BUTTERFLY WITHOUT WINGS Madama Butterfly (1904) is understandably one of the most popular operas in the world. Not only does it boast a tragic story that is incredibly moving, but the drama at its core is heightened and given beauty by Giacomo Puccini’s score. However, Center Stage Opera’s production fails to do the opera…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: LAND LINE (Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA at Atwater Village Theatre)
COMFORT CANCER Steven Dierkes has written the play one thinks of writing after a friend gets a brain tumor. Like a character in Land Line, I once was a guy who talked long-distance day after day to a sick friend who’d had to move back into his parents’ house; if you live long enough, you’re…
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