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Film Review: THE MONUMENTS MEN (directed by George Clooney)
NOT MONUMENTAL In theory, George Clooney’s The Monuments Men tries to tell the story of the “greatest treasure hunt of all time” – the race by U.S. Army art curators to save European art gems from Nazi looting and destruction. In practice, it becomes a movie about old men in jeeps, asking for directions. The…
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Los Angeles Music Review: URBAŠƒSKI CONDUCTS CHOPIN, PROKOFIEV & KILAR (LA Phil at Disney Hall)
A PERFECT BALANCE OF BITE AND BEAUTY Krzystof Urbański’s star shines a bit brighter these days. Not yet 35, he has taken hold as the conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony, and on Jan. 25 he wowed with an LA Phil command performance. The power bursting forth from the philharmonic, along with Urbański’s exuberance and lively…
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Los Angeles Music Review: JOHN WALZ & EDITH ORLOFF (Le Salon de Musiques)
SNAPSHOTS OF PARIS What do composers Léon Boëllmann, Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, and Bohuslav MartinŠ¯ have in common? According to François Chouchan and Julius Reder Carlson, the answer is Paris. The programmer/artistic director and resident musicologist of Le Salon de Musiques, the best Chamber Music outfit in Los Angeles, contextualized three sonatas written for cello…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: NIGHT WATCH (Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills)
A SWELL WHODUNNIT CREATES ANOTHER MYSTERY: WHY THIS ACTRESS? Part Rear Window, part Gaslight, Night Watch is currently dialing up the suspense at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills. Lucille Fletcher’s yarn unfolds around Elaine Wheeler (Jennifer Lee Laks), a rich and troubled woman who sees dead people from her window in the Kips Bay section…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: CHINA: THE WHOLE ENCHILADA (Sacred Fools Theater Company)
SHANGHAIED A musical featuring three performers and 5,000 years of Chinese history in just 90 minutes sure sounded promising, but the production of China: The Whole Enchilada currently serving up won-ton laced humor at the Sacred Fools Theater leaves the theatrical diner longing for a more satisfying meal. Upon viewing, it’s easy to see why…
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Chicago Theater Review: AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ (Porchlight Music Theatre)
FATS FOREVER “One never knows, do one?” That’s the favorite catchphrase of Fats Waller (1904-1943), an irrepressible master of music. The 285-pound, cherubic-cheeked jokester genius is the powerhouse presence and driving dreamer behind Ain’t Misbehavin’, Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby Jr.’s still irresistible tribute revue from 1978. In this happy case, well, one do knows. In…
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Los Angeles Dance Review: PLAY AND PLAY: AN EVENING OF MOVEMENT AND MUSIC (Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company at VPAC)
JONESING FOR SOMETHING MORE It’s been 31 years since the creation of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, but since Zane’s death from AIDS in 1988, Jones’”his work and life partner’”has remained the sole artistic director. A touring 30th anniversary season includes two mixed programs, both of which are under the banner of “Play…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE TEMPEST (City Lit)
ENCHANTED FORGIVENESS When the sorcerer Prospero discards his magic staff and abjures his spellbinding ways, it is, of course, Shakespeare’s swan song too. (The play will no longer be the thing.) The Tempest, his final finished work, is a valedictory to the 35 or so splendid stage stories that precede it. If Prospero, perhaps to…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: A CAT NAMED MERCY (Casa 0101 Theater)
KILLER PUSSY Suicide! Euthanasia! Incest! Health Care! Racism! Old age! Corporate America! Spirits! The afterlife! Prison! Duplicity! Playwright Josefina López (Real Women Have Curves) is tackling so many issues in her new play A Cat Named Mercy that it suffocates what could have been a most compelling story. As if living with her death-wishing, diabetic,…
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Los Angeles Music Review: IL MANTOVANO HEBREO (Profeti Della Quinta at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple)
COLORATURA ME MINE If ever there was a case for live music, a renaissance vocal ensemble is a compelling one. There is something so pure about five voices interacting in perfect harmony, especially in an exquisitely beautiful room. Such was the case last Thursday at the Da Camera Society’s Mid-Wilshire Festival; as part of its…
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Los Angeles Music Review: MOZART, BEETHOVEN & HAYDN (Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra)
HALLS OFFERS SOOTHING RELIEF A concert of good old-fashioned Classical music can be such a joy. If presented with respect, classical music’s stigma can easily disappear. In a concert of chestnut favorites (Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven), the L.A. Chamber Orchestra accomplished this precisely at UCLA last Sunday. The ballet music from Mozart’s Idomeneo combined with…
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Los Angeles Music Review: A MORE CONVENIENT SEASON (REDCAT)
NEW WORK GOES FROM PALPABLE FEAR TO A LOT OF NOISE Performed at REDCAT by what seemed like every student at CalArts, composer Yotam Haber’s A More Convenient Season had all the makings of an enormous work, not just a piece of concert music. The 75 minute three-movement multimedia quasi-opera oratorio intends to, in Haber’s…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE MOTHER (Oracle)
AN EVICTION NOTICE FOR THE 1% This is Brecht’s real Mother Courage, not “Canteen Anna,” the pointless survivor of the cautionary later play who thrives on war (which, Brecht implies, capitalism does as well). Written in 1930, The Mother is an unashamed piece of agitprop, a more driven and optimistic successor to The Threepenny Opera of…
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Dance Review: GISELLE (Royal New Zealand Ballet)
GISELLE’S GAZELLES First staged in 1841, Giselle is one of the oldest surviving ballets still in the international repertory, especially because the lead role is a showcase for the world’s leading prima ballerinas. Since its inception, the Romantic story ballet had several revisions, but most companies follow Marius Petipa’s fin de siècle version. The North…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: LET’S MISBEHAVE (International City Theatre in Long Beach)
MAKE IT ANOTHER OLD-FASHIONED PLEASE It’s something of a shocker, really. I had a great time watching Let’s Misbehave, a jukebox musical slim on both premise and reality. It’s actually more of a cabaret in which three super-talented and likeable performers knock off 34 Cole Porter ditties with style and elegance, and that’s the part…
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San Diego Theater Review: THE FOREIGNER (Lamb’s)
THE FOREIGNER HAS GOOD REASON TO STAY PUT Some theatre is staged to raise our awareness. Some theatre is designed to tell a story that will move us emotionally. Some theatre is intended to share a different viewpoint. All of this is good. On the other end of the scale, some theatre exists for nothing…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: A NORDIC PROGRAM WITH BOREYKO & HAHN (LA Phil at Disney Hall)
A SCRUMPTIOUS SCANDINAVIAN FEAST Russian conductor Andrey Boreyko arrives at Disney Hall this weekend for a contemplative and vivid Nordic program with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The returning conductor will be united with the phenomenal Hilary Hahn, who consistently offers a captivating combination of classiness, élan, ferocity, concentration and shading. She will be playing Danish…
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Los Angeles / Regional Music Preview: TORADZE PLAYS SHOSTAKOVICH (Segerstrom Concert Hall)
A SHOSTAKOVICH FESTIVAL Through February 8, 2014, a dizzying array of events celebrating Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich is being presented by Pacific Symphony and Chapman University. Starting tonight, Russian powerhouse pianist Alexander Toradze, recognized as a masterful virtuoso with deep lyricism and intense emotion, joins Pacific Symphony to introduce a journey into the music of…
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Chicago Theater Review: LUNA GALE (Goodman)
PARENTAL RIGHTS, GRANDPARENTAL WRONGS As with her hit debut drama Spinning Into Butter (1999), Rebecca Gilman’s newest agitation Luna Gale, directed by Robert Falls at Goodman Theatre, puts the versatile Mary Beth Fisher in the hot seat. Instead of playing a university dean coming to terms with her own racism, Fisher now depicts another authority…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: INTIMACY (The New Group at the Acorn Theatre)
MASTURBATING IN THE SUBURBS As directed by Scott Elliott, Thomas Bradshaw’s ironically titled new comedy Intimacy is not for the squeamish. A male character literally masturbates to internet porn, stroking a formidable erection which the actor has trouble stuffing back into his boxer-briefs when the scene ends’”talk about a game performer. This is just a…
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