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San Diego Theater Preview: THE MOTHERFUCKER WITH THE HAT (Cygnet Theatre Company)
SAY IT, MOTHERFUCKER When you see the word “Motherf**ker” in the title The Motherf**ker with the Hat, what comes to mind? Why, “Motherfucker,” naturally. While the asterisks may be necessary for public advertising, Stephen Adly Guirgis did not use them for the title of his smart and laugh-out-loud funny tragicomedy that Cygnet Theatre opens this…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: FORBIDDEN BROADWAY COMES OUT SWINGING! (Davenport)
A SHOW THAT DESERVES AN EXCLAMATION POINT! Broadway’s recent bumper crop of musicals has provided spoof-meister Gerard Alessandrini a mother load to mine in the latest installment of his well-established, venomous valentines to the Great White Way, Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging! Performed by a four member cast of actor-chameleons (Carter Calvert, Mia Gentile, Marcus…
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Bay Area Theater Preview: Tony Kushner’s THE INTELLIGENT HOMOSEXUAL’S GUIDE TO CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM WITH A KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES (Berkeley Rep)
TWO TONY’S UNITE FOR ONE OF THE BIGGEST THEATER EVENTS OF THE YEAR For anybody starved for smart and thrilling playwriting, your destination is Berkeley Rep, which is unfurling the West Coast premiere of Tony Kushner’s latest play, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, which officially opens…
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Chicago Theater Review: BELLBOYS, BEARS AND BAGGAGE (Redmoon)
BUILD-A-BEAR NARRATIVE In this year’s Spring Spectacle, Redmoon provides some characters, some comedy, some cruelty, their trademark whimsy, and ornate production values, but the chronological and structural aspects of Bellboys, Bears and Baggage are left to the audience. Visitors are admitted to performances in small groups and are confronted with three doors, each bearing an…
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Los Angeles Opera Preview: COSíŒ FAN TUTTE (Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall)
A PRODUCTION FOR TUTTE TO COSíŒ UP TO For those who think that the “semi-staging” for Così fan tutte, which opens on Friday at Disney Hall, is simply a world-class orchestra accompanying opera singers holding a libretto in their hands, you are in for a surprise. Fully staged, fully memorized, and beautifully designed, the operas…
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San Diego Theater Interview and Preview: NO PLACE LIKE HOME (Circle Circle dot dot in Ocean Beach)
COME HOME TO THE THEATER Statistics vary, but there were approximately 700,000 homeless Americans in 2013. While the government reports that figures are less drastic since the 2007 economic downturn, it remains one of the most prevalent social issues of our time. We may witness homelessness, but for many it is difficult to truly empathize…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: THE MUSIC GUILD’S 70TH SEASON (Brentwood, North Hollywood and Long Beach)
IF YOU GUILD IT, THEY WILL COME There is an outstanding music outfit which offers a series of chamber music concerts, introducing world renowned artists to Los Angeles audiences. Having seen some of its recent presentations of repertoire played at its premier level by sparkling chamber musicians, including the Borromeo and Avalon String Quartets (review),…
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Chicago Dance Review: PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY (Auditorium Theatre)
NOT SINCE THE REAGAN ERA Alas, it’s been 30 years since Paul Taylor Dance Company last played Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre. Even more alas, the too-brief weekend return ends today. At least now we know what the New York troupe is up to and, if not exciting, it’s certainly eclectic enough for whatever payoff that presents….
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National Tour Review: THE BOOK OF MORMON (Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa)
THERE’S NOTHING LIKE SITTING DOWN WITH A GREAT BOOK As someone who has not been living beneath a rock the past three years, I’d heard about The Book of Mormon. I laughed at the soundtrack, read a few things about it, knew about all the accolades and reviews and heard glowing assessments from people who’d…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: DIFFERENT WORDS FOR THE SAME THING (Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City)
a poem about a play This critic, this poet this pinch faced sailor Blueblack eyes like wet rocks icy sharp nose like a dagger screams I AM A PLAGIARIST this poem MY poem paraphrased from actual script of different words for the same thing The same thing by Kimber Lee The same thing Playing at…
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San Francisco Theater Preview: 36 STORIES BY SAM SHEPARD (Word for Word)
A ROAD TRIP YOU HAVE TO TAKE Some may not know this, but Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard is also an amazing short story writer. After reading Cruising Paradise (1997), a potpourri of tales, ruminations, and ostensibly first-person recollections with similar themes and obsessions, I thought that these stories’”desolate but riotous,…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE WHITE SNAKE (Goodman)
AN ANCIENT SWEETNESS ON A GOODMAN STAGE Infatuated with alteration, Tony-winner Mary Zimmerman loves transformations, metamorphoses, shape-shifting, and slow to rapid mood swings. Nothing should seem or stay as it looks or as we see it. Astonishment is all. Almost two millennia old, the ancient myth of a white snake who painstakingly enlightens herself into…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: MURDER FOR TWO (New World Stages)
BORED TO DEATH In Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair’s ill-conceived two-hander musical comedy Murder for Two, lively performances and Scott Schwartz’s energetic direction are not enough to overcome a book that goes out of its way to avoid suspense and is so full of corn that I found myself squirming between yawns: After a novelist…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: 110 IN THE SHADE (Actors Co-op Theatre Company in Hollywood)
A BLAZING-HOT PRODUCTION As Los Angeles heats up to sizzling temperatures this week, there is a cool, refreshing theatrical breeze blowing down the pike. It may be wise to avoid the 110-in-the-shade weather outside, but the musical 110 in the Shade at Actors Co-op in Hollywood is not to be missed. With a libretto by…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: FAT PIG (Hudson)
A PIG WITH WINGS Variety critic Daniel Kimmel identified a thread running through Neil LaBute’s work: “He is a misanthrope who assumes that only callous people who use and abuse others can survive.” Fat Pig, now receiving a satisfying production at the Hudson under Alexis Jacknow’s fine direction, is so true to what people really…
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Los Angeles Opera Preview: THAíS (LA Opera)
DAZZLING DOMINGO IN MASSENET’S MASTERPIECE What do world-renowned singers do once they have reached the age of retirement? On the strength of their name, they fill cabarets and concert houses across the land with nostalgia-filled patrons who seek a glimpse of their heroes live. Recent years have seen both opera and Broadway stars in just…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: AN EVENING OF CLASSIC LILY TOMLIN (Valley Performing Arts Center, CSUN)
HAS THE BLOOM WORN OFF THE LILY, OR IS IT ME? Dear Lily: I’ve adored you ever since you burst into my consciousness – and the nation’s – way back in 1969 on Laugh-In. Who could forget your Ernestine, the irascible telephone operator? Your Edith Ann, the precocious and deep-voiced 6-year-old? Your weirdly insightful homeless…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE GHOST OF GERSHWIN (The Group Rep in North Hollywood)
THE GHOST OF GERSHWIN: SONGS 10, BOOK 3 There is a lot to sing about in the Group Rep’s season closer The Ghost of Gershwin. It contains a bevy of freshly penned ditties by Wayland Pickard (music) and Laura Manning (lyrics co-written with Pickard) that are nostalgic in tone and capture the style and essence…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: MAURICE HINES IS TAPPIN’ THRU LIFE (The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
THE OLD SONG-AND-DANCE Full of vitality, eagerness, and joie de vivre, the indefatigable, cheerful, and fast-talkin’ showman Maurice Hines is offering a walk-down-memory-lane with song, big band, and a few special dance guests. For the nostalgia-starved and their parents, Maurice Hines is Tappin’ Thru Life at the Wallis is just the ticket. Basically an “And…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: AJAX IN IRAQ (Not Man Apart in Santa Monica)
THEATRICAL ANTHRAX In Ellen McLaughlin’s 2011 play Ajax in Iraq, a heroic American soldier, A.J., is raped by her sergeant. Her Iraq War story parallels that of the Trojan War hero in the Sophocles play, Ajax (elements of which are plonked down atop the contemporary thread): contempt for one’s fellow man in the horrors of…
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