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Los Angeles / Regional Dance Review: LILIOM (Hamburg Ballett at Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa)
IF I LOVED YOU At a time when many ballet companies are commissioning short dance pieces, it’s refreshing that John Neumeier’”since 1973, when he became Artistic Director and chief choreographer of the Hamburg Ballett [sic]’”continues to develop story ballets. His latest sweeping narrative which arrived at Segerstrom Hall last night is Liliom, based on Ferenc…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: BUNNY BUNNY (Falcon Theatre in Burbank)
NO NEED TO HOP ON OVER TO THE FALCON There’s an old European superstition: In order to ward off evil spirits and bad luck the first words you utter on the first day of every month must be ”rabbit, rabbit, rabbit.” As a child frightened of monsters lurking in her bedroom, comedienne and actress Gilda…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: ROMANCE AT THE PHIL (Bringuier, Tilling, Brahms, Berg & Beethoven)
ROMANTIC RENDEZVOUS Lionel Bringuier touches down at Disney Hall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Valentine’s Day weekend serving up a buffet of romantic music from Brahms, Berg, and Beethoven. Following his final year as Resident Conductor with the LA Phil, Bringuier returns with the exceptional Swedish soprano Camilla Tilling, whose voice carries the combination…
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Chicago Theater Review: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Mary-Arrchie at Angel Island)
PLAYING GOD AIN’T FOR AMATEURS Following his return from a decade in exile in Siberia as a dissenter against the Romanov order, Fyodor Dostoevsky intended his second novel, written as much to pay off gambling debts as to share a story, to be called The Drunkards. It would depict how alcohol destroys a family from the…
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Theater Review: THE HOW AND THE WHY (TimeLine Theatre)
ANATOMY IS NOT DESTINY Bursting with more arguments than solutions — cerebral, metaphorical and personal (sometimes simultaneously) — Sarah Treem’s two-act, two-person drama is also two plays: Two evolutionary biologists present conflicting theories of the sexual survival of the fittest, centering on menstruation and menopause. At the same time, these women — who are, not…
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Chicago Opera Preview: QUEENIE PIE (Chicago Opera Theater at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance)
THE DUKE WHO WAS A KING A blast from the “big band” past, Queenie Pie is the great late Duke Ellington’s sole–if unfinished’”opera, recently revived in Los Angeles. On February 15, Chicago Opera Theater (COT), in a co-production with Long Beach Opera, takes that reclamation effort to the Harris Theater in Millennium Park, with the…
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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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