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San Francisco Theater Review: STOREFRONT CHURCH (SF Playhouse)
DIME STORE PROPAGANDA One of the problems with watching a play that has an agenda, political or otherwise, is the difficulty of enjoying with a good conscience even those parts that work; knowing the playwright’s intentions to be dishonest (in that he’s serving up propaganda as art), one feels foolish being affected emotionally, as though…
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Los Angeles Theater Commentary: BEST OF LOS ANGELES THEATER, 2013
MY FAVORITE NIGHTS Looking back over a year’s playgoing, it’s every bit as easy to be jaded about little broke theaters as it is about big grant-eaters. Little broke theaters are constant trials of inconvenience for an audience member – you share a bathroom with the cast; you’re confused by the stage-house configuration; you have…
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Chicago Theater Remount: THE MOTHER (Oracle)
ORACLE’S THE MOTHER GETS A WELL-DESERVED REMOUNT My annual theater sojourn to the Windy City this year was a bit of a let down. Spoiled by previous pilgrimages, in which no less than 50% of the theater I saw astounded me, this trip yielded scant results (excepting a few great musical revivals). The final show…
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CD Review/Pop: LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY (Alexis Gershwin)
ISN’T IT A PITY? Alexis Gershwin not only comes from a family of Show Biz royalty, but royalties: The song catalog of her uncles George and Ira Gershwin’”according to Los Angeles Times’”generates about $8 million a year. The treasure-trove of tunes created by the Gershwin brothers between the early 1920s and 1937, when George died,…
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Los Angeles Music Review: A SWINGIN’ CHRISTMAS (The Count Basie Orchestra)
IT’S CHRISTMAS, CATS Since its inception in 1935, the Count Basie Orchestra has not just outlived the era in which it was spawned, but has remained a well-oiled machine of Big Band jazz, even after Basie’s death in 1984. After a bit of a sputter with sound issues and energy, their holiday concert last night…
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Los Angeles Music Review: LE SALON DE MUSIQUES – GLIÈRE & GRIEG (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion)
A STUNNING PREMIERE OF A GLIÈRE QUARTET I’ve had ravishing experiences before with Le Salon de Musiques, the premium music outlet which presents sterling chamber music concerts, but the two String Quartets on December 8 offered the most transporting, pleasurable, awe-inspiring, invigorating, relaxing, emotional and meditative experience I have had all year. Founding artistic director François…
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Los Angeles Music Review: CELEBRATE THE SEASON (Metropolitan Master Chorale)
A CELEBRATION WITHOUT THE SEASONING A few years ago, Metropolitan Master Chorale’s Christmas concert bowled me over. The fairly young chorus under the Artistic Direction of Glenn Carlos looked poised to be the next great competitor in a crowded Los Angeles market. The unique selections and strong singers with a beautifully braided blend had me…
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Jazz CD Review: PORT SAíD STREET (Francis Coletta / Jonas Tauber)
A SURPRISINGLY AFFECTING JAZZ DUET I met Swiss bassist Jonas Tauber after a concert recently and he sent me a copy of his 2011 CD Port Saïd Street, which is why this review arrives two years after its release. This 10-track set of duets with guitarist Francis Colleta has Mr. Tauber returning to his original instrument,…
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San Francisco Theater Preview: AMERICA’S NEXT TOP BACHELOR HOUSEWIFE CELEBRITY HOARDER MAKEOVER STAR GONE WILD! (The Kinsey Sicks)
DRAGULOUS I love The Kinsey Sicks. Is it because I love barbershop quartets? Is it because I love drag queens? Is it because I love community activists? Is it because I love irreverent, cheeky, flippant parody and comedic commentary? Is it because I love boffo entertainers? Well, perhaps that is part of it. But there…
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Film Review: AMERICAN HUSTLE (directed by David O. Russell; in release nationwide)
WHO’S HUSTLING WHOM? In American Hustle’s would-be signature moment, a con man shows a G-man a Rembrandt in a gallery. He explains that it’s really a fake. Who is the better artist, he asks, the original artist or the person who took the time and skill to fake it? Well, I would say the artist….
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Los Angeles Music Review: RACHMANINOFF & STRAVINSKY WITH DUDAMEL & WANG (LA Phil)
PUPPETS, THE PACIFIC, AND A PROFICIENT PIANO CONCERTO It’s not an uncommon occurrence with a Los Angeles Philharmonic program: I come expecting Yuja Wang’s interpretation of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 to truly blow me away. While she certainly had her place in the sun, it was Gustavo Dudamel’s triumphant leadership with Stravinsky’s Petrushka that…
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Theater Review: STOMP (North American Tour)
PLEASE MAKE IT STOMP When I first saw the Blue Man Group at the Astor Place Theatre in 1991, it was performance art nirvana. Sadly, what started as a sweet and satisfying event became a corporate machine; the size of the show in its newer behemoth incarnations (Vegas, Chicago, et al) has robbed it of…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE LITTLE PRINCE (Lookingglass)
NOW E.T. REALLY CAN GO HOME A justified hit, bright as any of the lights on Michigan Avenue, Lookingglass Theatre Company’s exhilarating adaptation of Antoine de St-Exupery’s classic and cautionary children’s tale may well run through the winter. Despite its total lack of holly or mistletoe, David Catlin’s ingenious dramatization of this whimsical philosophic classic…
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Bay Area Theater Review: THE CHRISTMAS REVELS: SPIRITS OF HADDON HALL (Scottish Rite Theater)
SPIRITS MATERIALIZE A SPIRITED CHRISTMAS IN SONG AND DANCE Anyone with a soft spot for holiday song and dance through history must attend the California Revels lofty production of The Christmas Revels: Spirits of Haddon Hall at Oakland’s Scottish Rite Theater. Don’t look for polished theatrical sophistication here. Rather, enjoy what you’ll find instead: High-spirited…
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Chicago Theater Review: TRIBES (Steppenwolf)
ONCE AGAIN, ATTENTION MUST BE PAID British playwright Nina Raine’s Tribes, which played Off-Broadway last year and has been produced regionally, depicts an oppressively intellectual British family, rich with colorful eccentricity and denied dysfunction. However, the real context for Steppenwolf Theatre’s bold new winter show’”no holiday play in any way’”is silence, the non-negotiable world that…
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Los Angeles Music Preview: A CHANTICLEER CHRISTMAS (Disney Hall)
LET ME MAKE THIS PERFECTLY CHANTICLEER I may be enamored by the Los Angeles Master Chorale’s Festival of Carols, I may be enthralled by Pasadena Symphony’s Holiday Candlelight, I may be excited by the Gay Men’s Chorus’s Holiday Spectacular, but Chanticleer’s Christmas concert, which plays Disney Hall on Dec. 20, is always the best choral…
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London Theater / Film Preview: RICHARD II (Crest Theater in Westwood)
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE’S RICHARD II COMES TO WESTWOOD Brits had already heard about Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Richard II, directed by Gregory Doran and starring former Doctor Who star David Tennant, who is joined in the Company by Oliver Ford Davies as the Duke of York, Michael Pennington as John of Gaunt and Nigel Lindsay…
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Los Angeles Theater Reviews: WALKIN’ IN A WINTER ONE-HIT-WONDERLAND (Falcon Theatre); ALADDIN AND HIS WINTER WISH (Pasadena Playhouse)
WINTER HIGH, WINTER LOW The Troubadour Theater Company opened a self-congratulatory love story Friday night, blowing a kiss to its own repertoire with its tenth annual holiday song-and-dance show at the Falcon. (They have done more than ten holiday shows, but not all of them at Garry Marshall’s lovely theater.) When some companies do this…
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Chicago Theater Review: WINTER PAGEANT (Redmoon)
WAY BETTER THAN A PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE Redmoon’s seasonal performances are not events or even experiences, but passages to a fleeting world of contemporary fable, complete with masks, music, machines, puppetry, and particularly in this years’ Winter Pageant, dance. Forty multi-talented performers take the stage to tell a pigeon’s tale: An unpresuming bird…
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Chicago Theater Review: SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF THE CHRISTMAS GOOSE (Raven)
A WAY TO GOOSE UP YOUR HOLIDAYS There’s not much of a mystery in Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Goose. Michael Menendian and John Weagly’s adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle” stays faithful to the source material, an unusually light tale involving the consulting detective….
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