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Film Review: THE COMPANY YOU KEEP (directed by Robert Redford)
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE? Things begin in the 60s in Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep. A group of radicals knock off a bank in Michigan. The ringleader, shown in dusty old FBI wanted posters, looks remarkably like The Sundance Kid. Who are those guys? That’s the question the Feds are asking, and…
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Regional Theater Review: SMOKEFALL (South Coast Repertory in Coast Mesa)
SMOKEFALL GETS IN YOUR EYES The most amazing thing about Noah Haidle’s world premiere of Smokefall at South Coast Rep is Marsha Ginsberg’s scenic design of a simple yet beautifully crafted two-story family home in Grand Rapids, Michigan; a light wood finish and the dainty pastels of mid-century furniture offer a comfort and void at…
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Los Angeles Dance Review: THEN. NOW. ONWARD! (L.A. Contemporary Dance Company)
L.A. Contemporary Dance Company (LACDC) presented their spring program last weekend and what began in the first half as inaccessible artiness became a thrilling showcase for co-founder and Artistic Director Kate Hutter, both as choreographer and dancer. The second half of Then. Now. Onward!, which played in the Diavolo Dance Space, began with Hutter’s Unravel,…
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Chicago Theater Review: LET THEM EAT CHAOS (The Second City)
FORGING COMEDY FROM CHAOS Early in The Second City’s 101st revue Let Them Eat Chaos, the excellent Second City veteran Katie Rich sits on the stage alone and alternately chats with the audience, and sings and plays some simple notes on a mini-xylophone. Mixing romantic clichés with ribbing (every parent has a least favorite child,…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: NEVERWHERE (Sacred Fools Theater Company)
NOT MUCH UNDERGROUND Author Neil Gaiman writes for the anime and graphic novel era – rollicking adventures that are tonally glib, suffused with whimsy and wit, and full of puns, extraordinary concepts, and vivid characters. Attempting to adapt these novels for the theater is an audacious idea – and so much more so to stage…
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Music Interview: TINARIWEN (part of the MusicNOW Festival in Cincinnati)
MUSIC BORN OUT OF WAR The MusicNOW Festival will present a dynamic lineup of new music at Cincinnati’s Memorial Hall from April 12 – 14, 2013. Founded in 2006 by Bryce Dessner of the indie rock band The National, the festival hosts contemporary musicians who defy the traditional boundaries of genre. The festival fosters world…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: BULLET CATCH (Brits Off Broadway at 59E59 Theaters)
ALMOST MAGIC Although the magic tricks in Bullet Catch are not so much ends in themselves as they are tools used to help explore the show’s themes, the effectiveness of the play – named after the occasionally fatal trick first developed in the 17th century, in which the magician attempts to catch a bullet fired from…
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Chicago Theater Review: MARIA/STUART (Sideshow Theatre at Theater Wit)
A FAMILY HAUNTED BY ITSELF Even among dysfunctional clans – an apparently exhaustible topic for today’s theater – Jason Grote’s self-haunted family in Maria/Stuart gets laurels for looniness. Unflinchingly depicted in Marti Lyons’ Chicago premiere for Sideshow Theatre Company, these six relatives hide more secrets that the two-act, 130-minute drama is willing to divulge. Instead…
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Los Angeles Event Coverage: BROADWAY MY WAY (The 29th Annual S.T.A.G.E. at Saban Theatre)
LADIES IN THEIR GOLDEN YEARS REAWAKEN BROADWAY’S GOLDEN AGE The Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event (best known by its acronym S.T.A.G.E.) presented its 29th cavalcade of stars this year at the snazzy Art Deco-styled 1930 Saban Theatre (originally the Fox Wilshire). This annual fundraiser (created by Michael Kearns and James Carroll Pickett in 1984) raised more…
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San Diego Theater Review: A DOLL’S HOUSE (Old Globe, Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre)
NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED Henrik Ibsen stated that he had no conscious thought of making propaganda with A Doll’s House (1879). Yet many productions have a feminist bent: Nora is the misunderstood wife of a husband who sees her as a doll, a thing he uses to round out his modular family. As such,…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: BILLY & RAY (Falcon Theatre in Burbank)
THE MISCHEVIOUS INDEMNITY OF NOIR You can bring a blanc sensibility to noir, but noir finds a way of seeping in’”its luxurious, sweet poison stealing focus when you’re not looking. In Billy & Ray, playwright Mike Bencivenga and director Garry Marshall set out to tell the undeniably funny story of how Billy Wilder and Raymond…
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Los Angeles Theater Interview: BRIAN T. FINNEY AND TIM ROBBINS on Heart of Darkness at Actors’ Gang
THE BLEEDING HEART OF DARKNESS Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novel Heart of Darkness concerns an English ship captain’s journey to the Belgian Congo, and the revelatory effect of his encounter with what Europe has wrought there. Specifically he is impressed by the fate of one ivory trader, Kurtz, who during his time in Africa has deteriorated…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: MELANCHOLIA (Los Angeles Theatre Center)
BETWEEN IRAQ AND A HARD PLACE A soldier named Mario returns from Iraq just in time for the 2005 New Year’s celebration with his East Los Angeles family, friends and novia – but he also returns traumatized by war. Fueled by guilt and sorrow, he has nightmares and begins drinking more and more, spinning out…
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Los Angeles Music Feature: MAX RAABE & PALAST ORCHESTER (Walt Disney Concert Hall)
MAX RAABE & PALAST ORCHESTER MAKE VENUE DEBUT AT WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL The public’s fondness for songs has an extensive and nearly unbroken history, and one of the acmes of this history took place in America from the 1910s into the 1950s. During this time, songsmiths created ditties that were so well constructed in…
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Chicago Theater Review: BARNUM (Mercury Theater)
THE FUN IN FRAUD Famed impresario P.T. Barnum banked on one cynical truth: No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. The undisputed master of the “noble art of humbug,” Barnum grew rich by providing the gullible, sensation-seeking public an inexhaustible series of “Unparalleled Attractions Never Before Seen,” many sheer flimflam,…
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Los Angeles Music Review: THE TALLIS SCHOLARS (presented by The Da Camera Society at the Bradbury Building)
TALLIS SOME MORE With their presentation of the Broadway Festival last week, the Da Camera Society of Mount St. Mary’s College not only validated the extraordinary rebirth of downtown Los Angeles but offered as the festival centerpiece a chamber concert by the Tallis Scholars inside the revitalized 1893 Bradbury Building. Seated on multiple levels around…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: GOOD WITH PEOPLE (59E59 Theaters)
SEEING ISN’T FEELING Blythe Duff and Andrew Scott-Ramsay deliver rich, convincing performances in David Harrower’s worthwhile if not completely satisfying play Good with People. Part of the Brits Off Broadway festival, currently at 59E59 Theaters, this two-person show concerns itself with the interaction between Helen (Ms. Duff), the middle-aged manager of a small hotel in…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE BARGAIN AND THE BUTTERFLY (Artworks Theatre in Hollywood)
A BUTTERFLY THAT’S STILL IN THE COCOON Katherine Noon’s latest ensemble workshop-developed hydra creation, The Bargain and the Butterfly, takes its inspiration from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Artist of the Beautiful. In Hawthorne’s tale, Owen Warland works at a watchmaker’s shop; he is a brilliant fool with a heart of gold who is more caught up…
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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: AN ECLECTIC EVENING OF SHORTS: BOXERS AND BRIEFS VI (Artistic New Directions at Theater 54)
A SHOWCASE FOR EMERGING ARTISTS When watching Artistic New Directions’ presentation of An Eclectic Evening of Shorts: Boxers and Briefs VI, a collection of six ten-minute plays, plus three short improvisational pieces, one must keep in mind that these are not so much completed works as they are works-in-progress, exercises that give playwrights, directors and…
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Bay Area Theater Review: GUYS AND DOLLS (Berkeley Playhouse)
DETROIT COMES TO BERKELEY The Berkeley Playhouse production of Guys and Dolls is just the thing for a theater lover, a fan of this timeless musical, or a family to kick back and enjoy. The show, directed by Jon Tracy, is meant to be pure entertainment, with well-executed catchy and hummable songs, fun and lively…
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