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San Diego Theater Review: A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (The Old Globe Theatre)
CHARM GALORE WITH A SIDE OF CHARM THROWN IN FOR GOOD MEASURE A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is a captivatingly charming affair. Set in Edwardian England, the west coast premiere is loosely based on Roy Horniman’s Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal, which was adapted for the screen as the 1949 black…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: END OF THE RAINBOW (Ahmanson Theater)
A TRIUMPHANT TRAINWRECK If you’ve never applauded a trainwreck, be prepared to do so when you see Peter Quilter’s End of the Rainbow. I am not talking about the gossip-driven, hardly revelatory play about Judy Garland’s last days; I am talking about Tracie Bennett’s devastating portrait of a Ritalin-addled, vodka-soaked, emotionally greedy and equally needy,…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: HIT THE WALL (Barrow Street Theatre)
HIT THE WALL When Hit the Wall, Ike Holter’s new play about the 1969 Stonewall Riots, opened at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater’s Garage Rep last year, it quickly passed into theatrical mythology; reports from friends and fellow critics hyped a phenomenon. Holter’s play reimagines the Stonewall Riots from the firsthand perspective of the queer community who…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Theatre Banshee in Burbank)
THE WILDE ACCORDING TO BURBANK By Los Angeles standards, Theatre Banshee’s The Importance of Being Earnest is pretty good. It’s a time-tested script; the actors know their lines, the director knows where to find the laughs, and one efficient, mostly lovely set by Arthur MacBride serves as three. But two of those three settings feature…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: TOMORROW (Skylight Theatre)
WHEN ‘TOMORROW’ ISN’T ANOTHER DAY Anyone who cares about acting or classical theater or Shakespeare (particularly Macbeth) must see Donald Freed’s new play Tomorrow. It has moments of spot-on, sublime specificity that make you gasp out loud. Without fuss, without preening, it explores the art of acting as a means of exploring the art of…
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Chicago Theater Review: MEASURE FOR MEASURE (Goodman Theatre)
YOU HAVE TO MEASURE CAREFULLY At the core of this dark and fascinating tragicomedy is a situation seething with modern irony: Can you be both above the law and beneath contempt? Angelo, a sex-hating Viennese puritan, has been rashly entrusted with enforcing repressive vice laws by the supposedly absent Duke. But in Isabella, a chaste…
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Los Angeles Music Review: JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS (Disney Hall)
THE PRIDE OF JAZZ PURITANS Wynton Marsalis has received a plethora of awards from numerous countries, committees and academies for his talents and contributions to the world as a musician, arranger, composer, and cultural ambassador. In 2009, he received the Insignia Chevalier of the Legion of Honor from France; it’s the equivalent of attaining knighthood in…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: SAINT JOAN (Bedlam Theatre Company at Access Theatre)
THE BEAUTY OF MAKESHIFT THEATER Even with all its flaws Bedlam’s revival of George Bernard Shaw’s masterpiece Saint Joan is an immersive and ultimately gratifying theatrical experience. Under Erick Tucker’s breathless direction the three-hour play, which tells the story of the last two years or so of Joan of Arc’s life, whizzes by, with the…
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Bay Area Theater Review: FALLACI (Berkeley Rep)
AN APPETIZER FOR THE REAL LIFE OF ORIANA FALLACI At the top of Berkeley Repertory Theater’s Fallaci, Italian opera soars as the chiaroscuro image of Oriana Fallaci is illuminated by only her cigarette lighter. It is a fitting introduction to a play which sheds light on a character but fails to fully illuminate the life…
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Chicago Theater Review: SMOKEY JOE’S CAFÉ (Royal George Theatre)
SMOKIN’ Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller – you may not recognize who they are but you sure know what they wrote: “Love Potion #9,” “Bossa Nova Baby,” “Kansas City.” A team famed for their much-recorded singles rather than their Broadway songs, they churned out classics over the last 60 years in all pop styles – rhythm…
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Chicago Theater Review: OTHELLO: THE REMIX (Chicago Shakespeare)
MAY THE RAP BE WITH YOU Before Othello: The Remix it was only Shakespeare’s comedies that received the Q brothers’ trademark, rap-happy revision’”Funk It Up About Nothin’ and The Bomb-itty of Errors. Who would have thought a tragedy could take it? It can. Boldly applying a hip transformation to Shakespeare domestic tragedy, this much-acclaimed venture…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: TRAINSPOTTING (Elephant Theatre in Hollywood)
TRAINSPOTTING IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK Whether L.A. theatergoers are ready or not, seat of your pants Productions has resurrected it’s much ballyhooed 2002 mounting of Henry Gibson’s Trainspotting at the Elephant Theatre in Hollywood and while much of its power remains intact, it is definitely not for the squeamish. All matter of human excrement…
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Chicago Theater Review: SHE KILLS MONSTERS (Steppenwolf)
NOT JUST FOR DUNGEONS & DRAGONS FANS Early in She Kills Monsters, the play’s protagonist, Agnes (Katherine Banks), strikes up a conversation with Chuck (Richard Traub), a high school student working at a comic book store. There’s a glimpse of what this scene might look like in a lesser production that chose to just play…
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Film Review: THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE (directed by Dan Scardino)
WHERE’S THE MAGIC? Whatever positives and negatives lay within The Incredible Burt Wonderstone – the latest Steve Carell mass-market comedy – all I could do was wonder what happened to Steve Buscemi and the Coen Brothers. At one time Buscemi was arguably the foremost actor associated with the reticent Minnesota siblings, playing roles in all five of…
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Chicago Dance Review: HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO SPRING SERIES (Harris Theater)
THE NEXT STEP(S) It’s an impressive lineup for this respected Chicago company’s annual “Spring Series”’”not just the always impressive Hubbard Street Dance Chicago but, here and elsewhere, the San Francisco-based Alonzo King LINES Ballet. That means that one dance features a sprawling expanse of 28 dancers on the Harris Theater stage, a crowd-control extravaganza to…
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Los Angeles Music Review: LE SALON DE MUSIQUE (Season 3, Concert 6 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion)
SOUL MASSAGE It’s easy to walk into a salon and pamper your body with a facial, pedicure, or rubdown, but there is a different salon in town where once a month there is an opportunity to have your soul massaged: a Chamber Music Concert Series called Le Salon de Musiques, a compendium of LA’s most…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE LYING LESSON (Atlantic Theater Company at the Linda Gross Theater)
A LESSON IN CHARACTERIZATION Carol Kane’s magnetic performance turns Craig Lucas’s dramatically thin comic thriller The Lying Lesson into compelling entertainment. Ms. Kane plays Bette Davis (the movie star, in her November years), who arrives incognito to an empty house in Maine that she is the process of purchasing, a couple of days prior to…
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New York Opera Review: OTELLO (Metropolitan Opera)
AN OPERATIC DEATH IN VENICE A storm blackens the skies, casting a shadow on the land. The citizens and soldiers of Venice sway with anticipation, waiting for their mighty general to triumphantly return. In the center of an impressive, multi-tiered wartime display embellished with cannons, hangs Jesus Christ on a crucifix, his light shrouded by…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: NEVA (Public Theater)
ACTING ON THE POLITICAL STAGE “Another play about Chekhov?” I thought as I settled into my seat for Neva, written and directed by Guillermo Calderón. Contemporary theater often seems plagued by insularity: artists write plays about other artists, which in turn attract an audience of artists. Rather than direct our attention to the world beyond…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: TRIBES (Center Theatre Group at Mark Taper Forum)
FINDING YOUR TRIBE Theatre of Identity, aka Social Issues Theatre, is a fascinating phenomenon: this genre promotes a particular people’s cultural identity and invites members of that culture and other cultures to experience that culture’s joys, problems, history, traditions, and point of view. Plays like Torch Song Trilogy, The Boys Next Door, and Yellow Face…
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