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Chicago Theater Review: WRECKS (Profiles Theatre)
CLUELESS CORRUPTION Much has been said about Neil LaBute’s work at Profiles, but there’s so much that can’t be given away about Wrecks (2005), a 70-minute solo show by the ever-controversial LaBute, now enjoying his 11th production at this theater, that this review will be sparingly short. The setting is a Chicago funeral parlor where the ashes of…
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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: SARAH FLOOD IN SALEM MASS (The Flea Theater)
BACK TO THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS Definitely thoughtful, at times charming, occasionally compelling, but mostly tedious, Adriano Shaplin’s new play Sarah Flood in Salem Mass, tells of two girls from the future – Sara (Kate Thulin) and Juyoung (Jamie Bock) – who illegally use mom’s time machine and go back to 17th century Salem, Massachusetts,…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE NORTH CHINA LOVER (Lookingglass Theatre Company)
THE TALE OF A LOVE THAT LINGERS TOO LONG Freud said that an unfinished task is never forgotten. But the inability to forget is nothing to the life-long longing of an aborted romance. For novelist Marguerite Duras, a love affair cut short in 1930 fueled her masterpiece Hiroshima Mon Amour, as well as the novels The Lover and The…
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Los Angeles Music Review: LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE: 50TH SEASON CELEBRATION (Disney Hall)
WORDS FAIL TO EXPRESS THE TRIUMPH When one of the finest chorales in the world offers a musical compendium from their last five decades, one expects a sterling program. Yet the Los Angeles Master Chorale’s 50th Season Celebration at Disney Hall went beyond mere expectation. LAMC cleverly compiled signature works heard under the leadership of…
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Film Review: GRAVITY (directed by Alfonso Cuaron)
SPACE CADET Alfonso Cuaron’s space station disaster saga Gravity is an intellectually soft video game’”a SuperMario of space debris, and a disappointment as a space survival story. A great deal of praise is being heaped on the 3-D outer space experience, labeled as immersive and hypnotic. Comparisons are being drawn to the upside-down, gravity-free experience…
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Los Angeles Music Review: LA PHILHARMONIC: DUDAMEL & BRONFMAN (Walt Disney Concert Hall)
MORE THAN A CELEBRATION The Walt Disney Concert Hall celebrates its 10th anniversary this week, but the program last night was more of a celebration of The Los Angeles Philharmonic. Do Angelinos truly understand that one of the finest orchestras in the world is in their own backyard? Even with Gustavo Dudamel at the helm,…
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Chicago Dance Review: THE SLEEPING BEAUTY (Ballet West at the Auditorium Theatre)
A REAL BEAUTY Reality T.V. meets classical ballet and the latter wins: The stars of the CW’s Breaking Pointe have teamed up at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre through Oct. 6 to produce a dazzling and faithful version of Tchaikovsky’s sweeping and soaring three-act ballet. Adam Sklute’s staging honors the gorgeous fairy tale and even more sumptuous…
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Bay Area Theater Review: A WINTER’S TALE (California Shakespeare Theater)
TO UPDATE OR NOT UPDATE: THAT IS THE QUESTION If, as described in its publicity, Cal Shakes’ A Winter’s Tale takes viewers through “a Narnia-esque door to fantastical lands” to fulfill the Bard’s vision of “a family-friendly fairy tale featuring music, miracles, dance, audience participation,” then this production succeeds – fully and satisfyingly realizing Shakespeare’s…
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Chicago Theater Review: CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
PANACHE, YES’”PASSION, LESS If a story’s strong enough, you just need to rekindle the plot. Edmond Rostand’s timeless love story celebrates the one-sided love between the famous 17th century swordsman-poet disfigured with a humongous schnoz and Roxane, his beautiful cousin. Roxane is initially infatuated with Christian, her younger, handsome suitor who nonetheless can’t win her without…
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Film Review: A RIVER CHANGES COURSE (directed by Kalyanee Mam)
VANISHING CULTURES Kalyanee Mam’s refreshingly quiet and cinematic documentary A River Changes Course follows families in rural Cambodia as they struggle with the effects of global progress on their simple way of life. A fisherman is forced to send his son off to work as a laborer because overfishing has decimated the rivers. A rice…
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Los Angeles Opera Preview: EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion)
RELATIVITY, STAGED A trusty theater friend witnessed Einstein on the Beach at BAM in New York last year, and she told me it was not just one of the greatest theatrical experiences of her life, but one of the greatest experiences she had ever had, period. I have consistently heard that the 1976 opera by Philip…
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Los Angeles Music Review: EMMYLOU HARRIS & RODNEY CROWELL (Valley Performing Arts Center)
AMERICAN LEGENDS Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell took the stage at Valley Performing Arts Center to deliver a hot set of good old-fashioned country-flavored Americana music. It was an evening of legends paying tribute to those whom they revere and love, not excluding each other. Since their first meeting forty years ago, these highly regarded…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON (Deaf West)
MOUSE TRAP Flowers for Algernon has had many incarnations since it was first published as a short story in 1959 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: a novel, a telecast, a film (which won an Oscar for actor Cliff Robertson) and a Broadway musical. At its heart, the story is a moving account…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: HUMOR ABUSE (Mark Taper Forum)
A THREE-RING ONE-MAN SHOW Start with a true story about a family circus that shot to prominence even though it eschewed big-business-conglomerate backing, ran in a single ring without exotic animals, and interacted with and embraced the communities where it performed. Spice it up with superbly executed acrobatics. Top it off by having it performed…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: ENRIQUE VIII (Rakatá at the Broad Stage)
MY KINGDOM FOR A TRANSLATION In the “What Were They Thinking?” Department, the Broad Stage has brought in a magnificently acted, thrillingly staged and cleverly edited version of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, but it was booked on one of the notoriously busiest theater weekends of the year (which includes the international RADAR L.A. theater festival). However,…
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Chicago Theater Review: PULLMAN PORTER BLUES (Goodman Theatre)
CHANGE ON A TRAIN Schematic, predetermined and sometimes improbable, Cheryl L. West’s ambitious family saga Pullman Porter Blues blends blues ballads with convenient confessions in order to richly portray three generations of a family who are literally on the rails. As capacious as a documentary and as focused as a family album, this sprawling domestic…
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Film Review: RUSH (directed by Ron Howard)
WHAT A RUSH One day soon, or so we’re told, we will no longer drive. At the edge of the Age of the Driverless Car, taking a spin behind the wheel will become a thing of an increasingly distant past. Trendsetters assure us that this is the next great advance in safety and transportation. Soon…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: ST. JUDE (Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City)
HEAVENLY SAINTS PRESERVE US Ten days after opening night, Luis Alfaro still wasn’t off-book for his one-man confessional work-in-progress. This matters because the moment when he leaves his lightly comic, heavily clichéd script, and whirls himself into performance-art dervish, it is transporting and beautiful; but there is only one such occasion in an hour and…
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Los Angeles Opera Review: CARMEN (LA Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion)
SAFETY IN NUMBERS The production of Carmen that opened this week at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion has been seen before. Emilio Sagi’s production originated at Madrid’s Teatro Real and was previously seen in Los Angeles in 2004 and 2008. To put it mildly, this seems like a safe choice for the season opener: With music…
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San Francisco Theater Review: 1776 (A.C.T.)
IF ONLY OUR CURRENT CONGRESS WAS THIS MUCH FUN Who would think that a musical featuring a bunch of middle-aged white men talking politics could be fun? But that’s the miracle of Frank Galati’s production of 1776. the rousing revival of the 1969 musical classic currently at A.C.T. Peter Stone’s witty dialogue and Sherman Edwards’…
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