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Documentary Review: THE ACT OF KILLING (directed by Joshua Oppenheimer; co-directed by Anonymous & Christine Cynn)
THE ACT OF REINVENTING A MASSACRE If there were a subtitle to Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing, it could be “A Re-enactment by Fun-Loving War Criminals.” In this unsettling documentary, a cadre of aging Indonesian gangsters relives their part in a pogrom against communists in the 1960s. In the political chaos of that time,…
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Regional Theater Review: CYMBELINE (Oregon Shakespeare Festival)
NO PROBLEM WITH THIS “PROBLEM PLAY” In Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s performance of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, director Bill Rauch manages to brew a potion of familiar Shakespearean themes including switched identities, jealousy and innocence wronged, while adding a lighthearted dollop of a lovely princess, an evil queen, and a misguided king. What results is a sparkling showstopper….
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Film Review: PRINCE AVALANCHE (directed by David Gordon Green)
PART OF THE AVALANCHE OF INNOCUOUS FILMS Over the past few years a new cinematic sub-genre has emerged – the innocuous independent film. These are low-budget (by Hollywood standards), professionally made movies which, though not exactly objectionable, have very little entertainment or artistic value. David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche, based on the film Either Way…
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Chicago Theater Review: INVASION! (Silk Road Rising)
AN ARAB ZELIG Supple, swift and slippery, this 80-minute, four-character satire by Jonas Hassen Khemiri (translated by Rachel Wilson-Broyles) skewers Islamophobia and its many mutations. Its trick is to center our self-terrorism on an exotic name borrowed from an old play. Meaning everything and nothing, the fake persona “Abulkasem” takes on as many protean forms…
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San Diego Theater Review: DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Old Globe in Balboa Park)
STAGE NOIR In many ways, the stage adaptation of James Cain’s novel, Double Indemnity, is a radical departure from the iconic film from director/writer Billy Wilder. The film’”co-written by Cain’s contemporary and rival Raymond Chandler, who was known to deride Cain’s novels’”contains deliciously noir dialogue that Wilder and Chandler used to get past the censors….
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Chicago Theater Review: SLOWGIRL (Steppenwolf)
A HIGHLY ENGAGING SLOWGIRL After a traumatic accident, millennial teenager Becky (Rae Gray) visits her uncle Sterling (William Petersen) in Costa Rica, where her constant chattering disrupts his nearly monastic lifestyle. As the two learn to live with each other, layers of regret, anxiety, and fear begin to surface. Playwright Greg Pierce treats his characters…
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San Francisco Music Preview: JESSYE NORMAN IN CONCERT (Davies Symphony Hall)
NORMAN’S CONQUESTS For those who haven’t heard, Soprano Jessye Norman’s July 31 concert with pianist Mark Markham at Davies Symphony Hall was postponed so that Ms. Norman could perform in Washington, D.C. at a ceremony of the U.S. Congress to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. The San Francisco concert has been…
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Documentary Review: CUTIE AND THE BOXER (directed by Zachary Heinzerling)
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS AN OLD MAN The connection between artist and starvation has rarely received such a quietly violent treatment as it does in Cutie and the Boxer. If young artists were made to sit and watch this documentary once a year at school, we’d have more accounting majors and less mediocre art. …
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Los Angeles Music Review: A NIGHT OF ELEGANCE (LA Phil at the Hollywood Bowl)
DOUBLE YOUR PLEASURE As promised, the Los Angeles Philharmonic program last Tuesday offered stylishness and sophistication, but guest artists Katia and Marielle Labéque added an element of fierce emotion. It was evident in the centerpiece, Mendelssohn’s Concerto in E major for Two Pianos (and Orchestra), how well the sisters complement each other. Marielle, wearing black, had…
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Los Angeles Music Review: PINK MARTINI (LA Phil at the Hollywood Bowl)
A ZESTY SUMMER COCKTAIL In their seventeen years as a fourteen member full “little orchestra,” Pink Martini has established a reputation for clever, daring, sophisticated and delightful music. The unusually overcast sky at the Hollywood Bowl Sunday evening provided an excellent opportunity for LA Phil and Pink Martini to perk up the environment with some much needed color and…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI… (Rogue Machine)
THE X FACTOR How many times have we mused that we would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when ___________? That’s exactly what playwright Kemp Powers has done in his One Night in Miami…, the world premiere of which is currently on at Rogue Machine. Taking a real gathering of four…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: REVELATION (Elephant Theatre Company in Hollywood)
RUPTURED RAPTURE Attending the opening night of a comedy at one of the smaller 99 seat theaters in Los Angeles can be problematic. In addition to a minute smattering of critics and avid theatergoers, the audience is primarily made up of friends of the cast and members of the theater company. Therein lies the rub. …
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Los Angeles/Regional Theater Review: THE BIG PICTURE (Pageant of the Masters)
I GET THE PICTURE Pageant of the Masters’ The Big Picture is perhaps the most three-dimensional idea from the fertile mind of director Diane Challis Davy. Continuing the 80-year tradition of celebrating art with a performance of “living pictures”’”tableaux vivants’”this year’s production is a tribute to the history of motion pictures and the ways in…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: A PARALLELOGRAM (Mark Taper Forum)
THE SHAPE OF THINGS After Bruce Norris’s A Parallelogram at the Mark Taper Forum, I overheard a few audience members describe the play as “cute.†For all of the play’s political incorrectness, ramblings about physics, a future plague, and fairly unlikeable (and unknowable) characters, it appears that the playwright was going for provocative philosophy, but…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: STORYVILLE (York Theatre Company)
STORY-LESS A rubber knife jiggles and bends during an ostensibly dramatic stabbing scene. Characters’ “trumpet playing” is out of sync with the actual trumpeter. Performers struggle to remember their lines. And the unremarkable dance numbers seem under-rehearsed and take place in a performance space that all too often feels overcrowded. These are some of the…
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Regional Theater Review: KING LEAR (Oregon Shakespeare Festival)
LEAR AND HUNGRY TIMES With only a small caramel as dinner, I was concerned about the three-hour running time of director Bill Rauch’s contemporary adaptation of King Lear at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Fortunately, the forceful intimacy, powerful ensemble and modern relevancy made the hours fly, making this Lear a memorable feast. The set design and…
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San Francisco Theater Preview: CAMELOT (San Francisco Playhouse)
IT’S TIME FOR A LITTLE HAPPY EVER-AFTERING As San Francisco Playhouse opens a promising and highly anticipated rendition of Camelot this week, I am reminded of T. H. White’s The Once and Future King, the source material of the musical, and its effect on me when first I read it. But I am also reminded…
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Los Angeles/Regional Theater Review: I DO! I DO! (Laguna Playhouse in Laguna Beach)
I DO BUT I DON’T With all the adorability, simplicity, cliché and generic tone of a Hallmark Card, I Do! I Do! opened last weekend at the Laguna Playhouse. Starring Broadway stalwarts Davis Gaines and Vicki Lewis, the 1966 two-character musical by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt (The Fantasticks) has aged surprisingly well, considering it…
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San Diego Theater Preview: 2013 SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (Old Globe)
ALL THE WORLD’S AN OLD GLOBE The Old Globe has officially opened the 2013 Shakespeare Festival, now on through September 29. Adrian Noble returns for his fourth and final season as the internationally renowned festival’s Artistic Director, taking the helm on both Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and Tom Stoppard’s classic farce, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are…
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Film Review: THE CONJURING (directed by James Wan)
OLD SCHOOL AND SCARY AS HELL In The Conjuring, Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga take the roles of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, a Nick and Nora of supernatural troubleshooting. The real-life Warrens are best known in some circles as investigators at Amityville, but The Conjuring comes from a lesser known incident earlier in…
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