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Film Review and Commentary: CONCRETE T.V. (directed by Ron Rocheleau)
HARD ENOUGH AND THEN SOME If ordinary movies and television make you wish for more and less at the same time, New York artist Ron Rocheleau has a Christmas present for your inner savage intellectual. His ongoing collage series Concrete T.V., a cult favorite broadcast on New York’s Channel 67 since 1993, is now available…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ (The Park Avenue Armory)
THEATRICALIZING AN ARTIST’S WORLD The Life and Death of Marina Abramović, a biography or perhaps an imagined eulogy of performance artist Marina Abramović, the show’s still living collaborator, is fairly straightforward in its narrative, at least in the sense of being chronological. The ways in which it differs from the more conventional biographies and stage…
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San Francisco Music Review: SHINE: OUR BRIGHTEST HOLIDAY SHOW EVER! (SF Gay Men’s Chorus)
SHINE: THIS CONCERT’S SO BRIGHT, I GOTTA WEAR SHADES ‘Tis the season for a plethora of performing arts doing their best to pierce your inner Scrooge and inject you with holiday spirit. The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus did just that at their annual holiday concert, held for the first time at the War Memorial…
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Chicago Dance Review: ONE THOUSAND PIECES (Hubbard Street Dance Chicago)
LIGHT BECOMES MOVEMENT: THE AMERICA WINDOWS BURST INTO BEING Following its world debut last year as a “gift to the city” (gratefully accepted by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, also in attendance for its revival last night), One Thousand Pieces pays its respects to The America Windows. Now a Chicago landmark, these are the Art Institute’s now famous…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE STEWARD OF CHRISTENDOM (Mark Taper Forum)
THE DEW ON THE GORSE In the 1960s, Beckett and Pinter started a vogue of shabby-old-man-reminiscing plays so influential that as late as 1995, Sebastian Barry went ahead and wrote one too. But far from the esoterica of Krapp’s Last Tape or The Caretaker, Mr. Barry’s The Steward of Christendom is a cop’s-eye-view travelogue of…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
OLD LECHERS GET NO RESPECT Merrily set at Christmastide at the height of the swing era, Barbara Gaines’ sumptuous Navy Pier staging of Shakespeare’s slightest comedy is hilarious, certainly funnier than it has any right to be. As always with this company, it’s also as gorgeous to behold as to hear. Its nearly three hours…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE QUEEN FAMILY’S VERY SPECIAL HOLIDAY SPECIAL (The Actors’ Gang)
A HIT-AND-MISS HOLIDAY HYBRID IS AT LEAST MORE HO HO THAN HO HUM Silliness and charm reign supreme in The Actors’ Gang’s original Christmas show, The Queen Family’s Very Special Holiday Special. As with their Atomic Holiday Free Fall (2011), the troupe has created a framing narrative to loosely lace together a series of musical…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (Ahmanson Theatre)
FROM THE DECK OF THE H.M.S. CYNIC Remember when George Lucas took the awesome, mystical enigma of The Force and shrank it to the antiseptic science of midi-chlorians, essentially just a kind of microbe? A similar literalism has infected J.M. Barrie’s Never Never Land. Fairy dust has been replaced by star stuff, a sort of…
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San Francisco Dance Preview: XXMAS: THE CHRISTMAS BALLET, 2013 EDITION (Smuin Ballet)
THIS SEASON, SMUIN IS A SHOO-IN It’s such a beautifully simple idea that I often ponder why great dance companies don’t offer a seasonal treat as the Bay Area’s Smuin Ballet does. Instead of the same yearly program (you know, that Tchaikovsky chestnut), Michael Smuin created The Christmas Ballet, a changeable program which is divided…
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Chicago Theater Review: AN INSPECTOR CALLS (Remy Bumppo at Greenhouse Theatre Center)
CONSCIENCE KEEPING IN A CRACKLING PLOT Taut, true and richly wrought, this 1945 potboiler by unashamed socialist playwright J.B. Priestley remains, three generations later, a clarion call to a new century. Juicy with relentless revelations about a patrician clan who rule provincial Brumley, England, it’s just as much a wake-up call for social responsibility and…
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Regional / Los Angeles Music Preview: THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER HOLIDAY CONCERT (Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa)
MANHATTAN TRANSFERS TO ORANGE COUNTY FOR THE HOLIDAYS When it comes to vocal power, the jazz-pop quartet consisting of Alan Paul, Janis Siegel, Tim Hauser and Cheryl Bentyne, better-known as The Manhattan Transfer, have certainly set the industry standard for tightly wound harmonies. The amazing part is that as they approach their 40th anniversary (Bentyne…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: LESLIE JORDAN: SHOW PONY (L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Renberg Theatre)
JOCKEY-SIZED JORDAN REMAINS A COMICAL CLYDESDALE Have you ever been to a sultry party that has the oppressive feel of a languid, humid day in the Deep South, only to have the energy shift dramatically when a raconteur blows in like a refreshing breeze off the Gulf Coast? Usually, it is someone who can recount…
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San Francisco Dance Preview: THE NUTCRACKER (San Francisco Ballet)
SUPPORTING TRADITION Whereas other major companies trot out their tried-and-true but tired old annual cash-cow renditions of The Nutcracker, San Francisco Ballet’s version is a gift that makes me anticipate the holiday season. With no shortage of overblown and underwhelming productions of this holiday chestnut, SF Ballet, the country’s oldest professional ballet company and the…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: KURT WEILL AT THE CUTTLEFISH HOTEL (Santa Monica Pier)
OVER THE DARK HARBOR WATER Walking a cold, mostly deserted Santa Monica Pier on the way to this show, I passed a photographer’s booth blaring the Azealia Banks song about “cunt getting eaten.” A Brechtian juxtaposition: the family-friendly commercial beacon of the Pacific Park Ferris Wheel, reduced to a giant neon vagina inviting and enveloping…
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Chicago Dance Review: THE NUTCRACKER (Joffrey Ballet at Auditorium Theatre)
JOFFREY’S JOYOUS JEWEL Now in its 26th annual presentation, the late Robert Joffrey’s evergreen staging of Peter IlyichTchaikovsky’s beloved Christmas ballet blesses both the Auditorium Theatre and the dance pilgrims who flock to it, eager to be astonished. Still sumptuous with Oliver Smith’s lavish and fast-paced scenery, based on the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo’s…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: PARFUMERIE (Bram Goldsmith Theater in Beverly Hills)
EXPENSIVE VANILLA-SCENTED PERFUME For its inaugural stage dramatic production at the glittering new Bram Goldsmith Theater, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is presenting a charming candy box of a play that seems as much as an audition piece for the venue as it is a night of stagecraft in its own right. …
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Opera Review: THE MAGIC FLUTE (1927 Theatre Company and LA Opera)
AN ANIMATED AND LIVELY FLUTE The Magic Flute was written specifically for the common man, and thus was structured as an exaggerated amusement so that special effects could be employed. Mozart’s accessible music is among the most popular in the repertoire; it’s youthfully melodious yet stretches for transcendent classicism. Emmanuel Schikaneder’s libretto is known as…
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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (…blessed unrest…at the Interart Theatre)
A LOVELY INNOVATIVE STAGING OF AN OLD FAVORITE Theater artistry overcomes budgetary constraints in Jessica Burr’s delightful and poignant staging of A Christmas Carol, from Matt Opatrny’s admirable adaptation of Dickens’ novella. Six actors play over seventeen characters in this classic tale of redemption, in which Ebenezer Scrooge, a lonely old miser, is shown the…
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Chicago Music Review: MAKING SPIRITS BRIGHT (Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus)
A GAY CHRISTMAS ALL OVER CHICAGOLAND In a major first, the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus just performed its Christmas concert at the prestigious Harris Theatre at Millennium Park in downtown Chicago. You can’t get more visible or prominent than this’”and it ain’t over yet. Today the CGMC moves to the ‘burbs to sing at the…
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San Francisco Theater Review: THE GOLDEN GIRLS: THE CHRISTMAS EPISODES (Trannyshack at the Victoria Theater)
THANK YOU FOR BEING A DRAG QUEEN Now at the Victoria Theatre, Trannyshack’s drag version of classic holiday-themed The Golden Girls episodes seems to grow in popularity every year. Since its inception in 2005 when it was performed for a select crowd of friends, it has outgrown the living room and two subsequent South of…
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