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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE WINTER’S TALE (WorkShop Theater at The Main Stage Theater)
A FINE INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE It takes a few minutes to get going but once it does Ryan Lee’s staging of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale becomes dynamic entertainment; Mr. Lee and his fine group of actors succeed in making the experience of watching a 400-year-old play written in verse both intimate and immediate. King of…
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Dance Interview: SAVION GLOVER (Tap Dancer and Choreographer of STePz)
THE MAN BEHIND THE STEPZ As part of an international tour, Savion Glover’s newest work STePz arrives at the Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge this Friday, March 7. This two-act entertainment, which consists of several individual tap numbers, features Glover and four other dancers: Robyn Watson, Ayodele Casel, Sarah Savelli (a.k.a. the 3CW, or…
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Los Angeles Music Review: VALITUTTO PLAYS FELDMAN (The Neighborhood Church)
MICRO MACRO FELDMAN Last Wednesday at the Neighborhood Church in Pasadena, LA-based freelance pianist Richard Valitutto played four solo piano works, “two short and two long,” by American composer Morton Feldman. For those uninitiated to Feldman, his work is hard to describe. A convenient description would be “soundscape music,” as in plodding, thoughtful music. It…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: COLDWATER (Son of Semele in Silverlake)
A HEART-POUNDING, COSMOS-QUESTIONING PIECE OF THEATER Today may be your last chance to see Blue Cube’s hauntingly philosophical drama, Coldwater, but now that it has been tried out as part of Son of Semele’s Company Creation Festival, the hope is that this exciting work will soon get its own run. The plot follows three characters…
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Regional Theater Review: TENNESSEE WILLIAMS UNSCRIPTED (Impro Theatre at South Coast Rep in Costa Mesa)
COMEDICAL, TRAGICAL, IMPROVISATORICAL Impro Theatre’s long-form improvisational theater is among the most impressive of the performing arts. At South Coast Rep, the group proffered a full-length Tennessee Williams play which is made up on the spot. For every Tennessee Williams UnScripted during the short run, the performers show up with nothing but dramaturgic know-how and…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: 50 SHADES! THE MUSICAL (Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City)
FLESH MADE TEDIOUS In my day job as a public librarian, I can tell you with certainty there is nothing more dreaded than finding E. L. James’ turgid lust romancer  Fifty Shades of Grey in the book drop  after some woman’s book group has read it.  The condition those books are returned in!   The limp, slightly damp pages.   The…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: GENE KELLY: THE LEGACY (Pasadena Playhouse)
THE LEGACY WILL HAVE YOU GEEKING OUT FOR GENE KELLY Gene Kelly’s widow, Patricia Ward Kelly, is touring with her retrospective multi-media presentation of Gene Kelly’s life and work, Gene Kelly: The Legacy, which plays through Sunday at the Pasadena Playhouse. Since meeting Kelly in the mid-1980s, Patricia has concurrently been his biographer, historian, and…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: A NICE INDIAN BOY (East West Players)
GAY BOYS AND INDIANS A Nice Indian Boy, currently enjoying its world premiere production at East West Players, is a charming little comedy about love, marriage, culture clash and the shifting tides of public acceptance of gays. It would be a much stronger piece if the stakes for the protagonists were ratcheted up and if…
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Chicago Dance Review: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER (Auditorium Theatre)
HAPPY IN THEIR SECOND HOME It’s its second annual homecoming, the much-anticipated, event-filled Alvin Ailey American Theater arrives at the Auditorium Theatre, as well as to community venues all over Chicago. Bringing with them three complete programs of dazzling dance, this 2014 edition showcases the troupe’s vital verve, reminding audiences why they retain a love…
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Los Angeles/Regional Music Preview: THE VIENNA PHILHARMONIC (Segerstrom Concert Hall)
CHOOSING TO SEE THE VIENNA PHILHARMONIC IS A WALTZ It may be the easiest decision you’ll make in a long time. If you want to hear one of the greatest orchestras in the world, the illustrious and rightly celebrated Vienna Philharmonic will be performing at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall this Monday, March…
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Chicago Theater Review: CORPUS DELICITI (MadKap Productions at Greenhouse Theater Center)
CHERCHEZ LA CORPSE Sometimes truths get told that only murder can out. The quaint, perhaps anachronistic, setting for David Alex’ problematic two-act drama, just premiered by MadKap Productions, is a book repair shop. (Nowadays it’s hard enough to sell paper literature, let alone fix it.) In this dingy cellar cluttered with vellum covers and scrolled…
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Los Angeles Music Review: EMANUEL AX’S BRAHMS PROJECT: EMANUEL AX AND YO-YO MA (Disney Hall)
AN INCOMPARABLE DISPLAY OF THE MASTER PLAYED BY THE MASTERS Pianist Emanuel Ax’s Brahms Project continued last Tuesday night at a recital with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Perhaps the most relaxing engagement I have ever experienced at Disney Hall, three cello/piano sonatas and a new solo piano work by Brett Dean resulted in a calming experience,…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: TCHAIKOVSKYFEST: GUSTAVO DUDAMEL & ALISA WEILERSTEIN (Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall)
WEILERSTEIN TO WOW AT TCHAIKOVSKYFEST I had been following cellist Alisa Weilerstein for years, but until last March it was only on recordings and YouTube. Just before seeing her perform Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, I wrote, “The phenomenal American cellist Alisa Weilerstein has attracted attention worldwide for playing that…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE SHAPE OF SOMETHING SQUASHED (Paradise Factory Theater)
SQUASHED HOPES MAKE FOR BRILLIANT THEATER What a relief it is, what a glorious pleasure for a viewer, after sitting through so much unnecessary theater, to find oneself finally in the hands of an artist and master. You let yourself fall into them knowing that they will catch you and hold you and carry you…
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Los Angeles / Regional Theater Review: LYSISTRATA JONES (Chance Theater)
BASKETBALL MUSICAL IS ONE BIG PENALTY You wanna know how great the Chance Theater is? They actually made it a palatable experience to sit through one of the most half-baked and frivolous new musical comedies I could imagine. With only a dribble of sophisticated wit and attractive songs, book-writer Douglas Carter Beane (Xanadu) and his…
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Los Angeles Music Review: MID-CENTURY MODERN (Jacaranda Music: Adam Tendler & Cage / Christopher Taylor & Messiaen)
A GLORIOUS EVENT NEITHER MESSY NOR CAGEY Jacaranda’s understated but superb concert series continued last Saturday with a marathon solo piano event featuring John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano (1946-48) and Olivier Messiaen’s Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus (1944), played by Adam Tendler and Christopher Taylor respectively. The Messiaen is objectively longer and arguably more difficult than the Cage, but…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: DISASSEMBLY (Theatre of NOTE in Hollywood)
LOVE GONE NUTS Here’s a twisted little response to the maudlin sappiness of Valentine’s Day: Steve Yockey’s sprightly romantic farce is about love, all right, but it’s love as pathological damager, destroyer of lives, and self-sabotager of well-being. Indeed, it’s the perfect post-Valentine’s Day sorbet palate cleanser. Is that Cupid you see in the distance…
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Los Angeles / Regional Opera Review: LA TRAVIATA (Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa)
ORANGE COUNTY GOES GREEN, I.E. VERDI Opera is alive and well in Orange County! Since the demise of Opera Pacific (1985-2008), Pacific Symphony, aided by Pacific Chorale, has emerged as the company’s most likely heir. Its current production of Verdi’s La Traviata is the final production of a successful three-year experiment initiated in 2010 by…
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Chicago Theater Review: GOLDEN BOY (Griffin Theatre Company at Theater Wit)
WHEN THE BRASS RING IS JUST ANOTHER NOOSE The siren song of the bitch-goddess “success” croons loud and clear in this cautionary, modern melodrama. Golden Boy, Clifford Odets’ 77-year-old potboiler about a guy who decides to use his fingers as a fist rather than to play an instrument, hasn’t lost its knockout impact or visceral…
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Los Angeles Opera Review: BILLY BUDD (LA Opera)
LOST AT SEA To culminate a year-long centennial celebration of British composer Benjamin Britten, L.A. Opera revisits the acclaimed Francesca Zambello production of his 1951 seafaring opera Billy Budd that first set sail at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in 2000. With themes as tumultuous as good vs evil, the powerful vs the powerless, regret and…
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