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Chicago Theater Review: THE BURDEN OF NOT HAVING A TAIL (Sideshow Theatre Company)
THE BURDEN OF NOT HAVING A GOOD SCRIPT Having now seen Sideshow Theatre’s The Burden of Not Having a Tail, I can report that, despite its billing, it did little to prepare me for the apocalypse — but then, it didn’t do much for me at all. It’s founded on an interesting idea: A woman…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: ALCESTIS (Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena)
SELFISHNESS AND SACRIFICE Alcestis is the old Greek story of a man who allows his wife to sacrifice her life for his. As interpreted by Euripides, T.S. Eliot and others, it has much to say on the relationship between the mortal and the infinite. It is a reverie on egotism, love, mortality, personal redemption, and…
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Chicago Theater Review: BIG LAKE BIG CITY (Lookingglass)
BIG LAKE BIG CITY BIG TURKEY Chicago to the broken bricks and bone, playwright Keith Huff was at his storytelling best in A Steady Rain, a big hit about a conflicted cop and his crooked crony at Chicago Dramatists (and a lesser one on Broadway). In Huff’’s taut mix of interrogations turned confessionals, two policemen…
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Chicago Theater Review: TARTUFFE (Court Theatre)
THE IMPOSTER HITS HYDE PARK HARD Because religious hypocrisy — specifically “affected zeal and pious knavery” — never goes out of fashion, Tartuffe is forever. Continuing and completing its Moliere Festival (which ends on Bastille Day), Court Theatre’s second offering is the master’s perennially popular “home invasion” comedy. In this domestic dust-up, the title fraud…
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San Francisco Music Review: HARVEY MILK 2013 (San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus at Nourse Theatre)
COME OUT TO THE SAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN’S CHORUS In 1978, on the night of Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone’s assassinations, an unprecedented candlelight march brought mourners to San Francisco’s City Hall. The newly formed San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus canceled a rehearsal for their upcoming debut concert and opted to perform at the…
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Chicago Theater Review: A CLOWN CAR NAMED DESIRE (The Second City e.t.c.)
SHOOTING EASY TARGETS As is often the case at Second City shows, an early musical number explains the theme of A Clown Car Named Desire. Reality is filled with disappointment, hardship and boredom, so why not live in a dream where you can run away and join the circus? But the latest e.t.c. show could…
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Los Angeles Music Review: VOICES OF LOS ANGELES: SONGS OF EXPERIENCE (Hollywood Master Chorale)
BLAKE: IN DELICACY AND DISTRESS Hollywood Master Chorale concluded their Songs of Experience concert series Sunday night at the West Hollywood Library. Since the concert was inspired by Poet-painter William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and Experience,” the library was an an apt location to showcase his intimate, poignant poems set to song. The composers enlisted…
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Film Review: WORLD WAR Z (directed by Marc Forster)
ZOMBIE FILMMAKING There are huge citywide vistas of rambling crowds in World War Z, which may be the first film in which the cast seems to exceed the actual population of the planet. Most of these people are infected with a zombie virus that turns them into rattlesnakes with overbites and clammy hair. The fantastic…
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Los Angeles Dance Review: FOREVER FLAMENCO! AT THE FORD (Ford Theaters in Hollywood)
FOUNTAIN’S FANTASTIC FLAMENCO FIESTA While classic and modern dance seem to be continually reinventing themselves, Flamenco remains a bedrock of the moving arts. As Forever Flamenco! at the Ford proved last Saturday, age and body type have nothing to do with the soulful expressiveness inherent in this traditional dance form. There are many forms of…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: BUYER & CELLAR (Barrow Street Theatre)
HELLO, GORGEOUS Jonathan Tolkin’s keen and tremendously funny new show Buyer & Cellar, performed by Michael Urie, imagines what it would be like for Alex More, a young gay man struggling to make it as an actor in Hollywood, to find himself working in the artificial mall Barbara Streisand built in the basement of her “rustic”…
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Los Angeles Dance First Person: RAIFORD ROGERS on SCHUBERT’S SILENCE (Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet at Luckman Fine Arts Complex at CSULA)
THE VOICE IN THE SILENCE Raiford Rogers has been choreographing dance for over thirty years. He co-founded (with Victoria Koenig) the Los Angeles Chamber Ballet in 1981, known since Koenig’s departure as the Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet. He has designed everything from pop moves for superstars (he never tells for whom) to sophisticated classical compositions. …
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San Francisco Opera Review: THE GOSPEL OF MARY MAGDALENE (San Francisco Opera)
THE ISHTAR OF OPERA What if the real historical Jesus was someone quite different from what we’ve been told? What if he was born a bastard, kept a lover and then married her? What if Mary Magdalene, his faithful disciple, was not the legendary prostitute turned penitent? What if we had the chance to meet…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: WATSON AND THE DARK ART OF HARRY HOUDINI (Sacred Fools)
JEKYLL AND HYDE DIRECTION MAKES THE MAGIC DISAPPEAR IN WATSON AND THE DARK ART OF HARRY HOUDINI Writer/Director Jaime Robledo follows up his award-winning smash hit Watson: The Last Great Tale of the Legendary Sherlock Holmes (reviewed here) with a world premiere sequel Watson and the Dark Art of Harry Houdini at the Sacred Fools Theater…
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Chicago Theater Review: SHAKESPEARE’S CYMBELINE: A FOLK TALE WITH MUSIC (First Folio)
A LONG HIKE IN THE THEM THAR HILLS OF SHAKESPEARE Along with its companion piece The Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare’s late-blooming “romance” Cymbeline is usually treated as a fairy tale. Rightly so, as it abounds in surprises, reversals and restorations. Minus any realistic causation and motivation, their pell-mell plots are packed with improbable events — inexplicable…
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Opera Review: MACBETH (Independent Opera Company in Los Angeles)
VERDI ON THE VERGE Hearing Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth is a rather disorienting experience, at least at the beginning. The difference is that we’re used to Shakespeare’s English, even if it is archaic. Translating his tragic play into Italian makes it seem like something else entirely. Then add to that the very Italian flavor of Verdi’s…
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Los Angeles Dance Review: HUBBARD STREET DANCE & ALONZO KING LINES BALLET (Dorothy Chandler)
LITTLE MORTAL JUMP TURNS OUT TO BE THE BIGGEST THING OF THE NIGHT The lineup at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion begins with the respected and always impressive Hubbard Street Dance Chicago as they converge with the San Francisco-based Alonzo King LINES Ballet. When combined, the crowd-control extravaganza which closes the program, Azimuth, features a sprawling…
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Los Angeles / Regional Theater Preview: AN EVENING OF CLASSIC LILY TOMLIN (Segerstrom Hall)
PARADISE LILY My fanaticism with Lily Tomlin started with her 1972 comedy album This is a Recording. I immediately felt a kinship with Ernestine Tomlin, Ma Bell’s switchboard operator and favorite enforcer. She was meddlesome, forceful and sarcastic, and I always looked to her as a beacon of sanity in an incompetent world. Strangely enough, my…
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Chicago Theater Review: JASON AND (MEDEA) ((re)discover theatre)
FLEECING A LEGEND The tickets are free in (re)discover theatre’s generously-meant new work by company member Jessica Shoemaker. Their too-fresh offering is an anachronistic, two-act take on the love story behind the legend of ancient Greek hero Jason and his witch wife Medea. Jason and (Medea) — the strange parentheses hinting at one partner’s curious…
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Los Angeles Concert Preview: NOT ENTIRELY WICKED (Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles at the Saban Theatre)
GMCLA OFFERS NOT ENTIRELY WICKED, FEATURING STEPHEN SCHWARTZ AND LIZ CALLAWAY In what is surely one of the busiest weekends for the arts in Los Angeles, let me help you make a decision. It’s one of those once-in-a-lifetime concert events that will not be replicated, nor will it have a long run. In fact, you…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: REVOLVER (Celebration Theatre in Hollywood)
NOT JUST A GAY BAR ANY MORE It is the unfortunate nature of some gay dramas to hammer home or leadenly evangelize a theme with a heavy hand. You know the sort of thing I am talking about: The drama about a homophobic thug who beats a gay person, with the beater portrayed as a…
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