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Los Angeles Theater Preview: MACK & MABEL (Musical Theatre West)
NOW THIS YOU GOTTA SEE Of the 32 shows I attended in Chicago recently, the most charming experiences were with four musical revivals, three from Broadway’s heyday — the 1930s through the 1960s — and one from somewhere near the onset of its slow and painful decline — the 1970s to the present (Sondheim doesn’t…
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Los Angeles Music Feature: LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (Concerto Finale)
AS IF CELLIST ALISA WEILERSTEIN PERFORMING SHOSTAKOVICH WASN’T ENOUGH: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) will conclude its 44th season this weekend with the appropriately titled program, Concerto Finale. This season has showcased both LACO’s eclectic repertoire and the orchestra’s proficiency which more than substantiated PRI’s proclamation that LACO is “America’s finest chamber orchestra.” From a…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE MOTHER (Oracle)
THE MOTHER OF CHICAGO THEATER Workers and theatergoers of Chicago unite! Oracle Theatre is mounting a rousing defense of Karl Marx and the Bolsheviks, and demands your undivided attention. Though my experience is admittedly limited in the realm of communist propaganda, The Mother is not only the best agitprop I’ve seen to date, but it packs…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE GOLDEN DRAGON (The Play Company at The New Ohio Theatre)
A PLAY CANNOT LIVE ON CONCEPT ALONE Nicole Pearce’s lighting and Katie Down’s sound design and musical compositions, which are works of art in themselves, go a long way in helping make The Play Company’s production of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s The Golden Dragon (translated by David Tushingham) a dynamic and exciting, if not completely satisfying, spectacle….
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Los Angeles Music Review: RACHMANINOFF’S ALL-NIGHT VIGIL (Pacific Boychoir at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles)
IT’S A SHAME THAT IT DIDN’T ACTUALLY LAST ALL NIGHT Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil was composed in just two weeks during the cold winter of 1915, just after a compositional dry spell. It is known that the great pianist was not a religious man, yet one can only ponder if there was some sort of divine…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: A FAMILY FOR ALL OCCASIONS (Labyrinth Theater Company)
WHAT MAKES A FAMILY What makes a family? What keeps one together? And what do you do when you’re stuck in one that doesn’t fit in with how you want yourself or your life to be? These are the questions Bob Glaudini appears to be trying to answer with his slice-of-life drama A Family for…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: GOD’S MAN IN TEXAS (Sierra Madre Playhouse)
A PLAY WHICH FALLS ON ITS FAITH Faith is one of the most prevalent themes in David Rambo’s God’s Man in Texas, and very likely where you place your faith or where you spend your Sunday mornings will inform your opinions of this production. On the one hand it is a dramatized sermon. On the other, as…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE (Mark Taper Forum)
YOU MIGHT ENJOY THE ACTING, BUT WILL YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC? It’s not easy to believe in magic watching Phylicia Rashad’s direction of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. While Rashad has a knack for the naturalistic style of theatre, evidenced in her astounding production of A Raisin in the Sun, she seems to have missed the…
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Chicago Theater Reviews: THE SILENT LANGUAGE (TUTA Theatre Chicago) & THE ELEPHANT AND THE WHALE (Chicago Children’s Theatre)
CATCHING WISE TO THE OLD RAZZLE DAZZLE A fascinating phenomenon is occurring in the theater, one which was elucidated by many shows that I saw in Chicago over the past couple of weeks. As the art of playwriting (to wit: storytelling) becomes deconstructed, muddled, and (occasionally) wholly impenetrable, the stagecraft used to tell these tales…
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Chicago Theater Review: HENRY VIII (Chicago Shakespeare at Navy Pier)
THE PLAY’S NOT REALLY THE THING, THE PRODUCTION IS Further earning a proud name, Chicago Shakespeare Theater has produced Henry VIII for the first time in professional Chicago theater history. The history cycle is finally finished. Fortuitously, all this happens exactly 400 years after it premiered at the Globe Theatre when, alas, an accident with…
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Chicago Theater Review: IF YOU SPLIT A SECOND (Pegasus Players)
SECONDS WHICH SHOULD BE SKIPPED, NOT SPLIT Within the messy, overwritten and frustrating new script, If You Split A Second, is a potentially interesting premise: In an instant of unthinking and reflexive violence a man can obey his demons; yet in doing so, he can destroy not just his future but the welfare of his…
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Chicago Theater Review: IVYWILD (The Hypocrites at Chopin Theater)
I REMEMBER THE AMUSEMENT PARK BUT FORGOT WHAT THE RIDE WAS ABOUT The more I think about the Hypocrites’ latest theater spectacle, Ivywild, the more entranced I feel about the imaginative proceedings – the way in which the story was told – and the less I care about the story itself. In an impressionistic, non-concrete…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: HOT CAT (Theatre of NOTE with Theatre Movement Bazaar)
A CAT IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a tricky play even before it leaves the page. Nearly sixty years after its first performance, Williams’ brilliant poetic language and the story’s pervasive darkness can easily steer it into the realm of melodrama. “Oft-revived,” it is both commercially and artistically primed…
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Chicago Theater Review: OKLAHOMA! (Lyric Opera)
CORNOGRAPHY It’s been 70 years since Rodgers and Hammerstein ushered in the “golden era” of Broadway musicals with Oklahoma! but given the right production, the innovative musical can still soar. Old-fashioned staging, however, can thicken the aging brown dust on the bright green corn; that’s when the innovative musical can show its age. Well, an Oklahoma! twister blew through Lyric Opera last night,…
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Chicago Dance Review: OTHELLO (The Joffrey Ballet)
PLEASE, SIR, I WANT SOME MOOR Alas, this is mainly a review of record: This is the final weekend to savor the triumphant revival of the Joffrey Ballet’s Othello. Originally given its world premiere by the American Ballet Theatre in 1997, this “dance in three acts” is fueled by a suitably ferocious score by still-young…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME (59E59 Theaters)
THE RIGHT GIRL IN THE WRONG VENUE Created by Neil Bartlett and Jessica Walker, The Girl I Left Behind Me – which is part of the Brits Off Broadway festival – is a tribute to British and American male impersonators of decades past, in which Ms. Walker, dressed in tails and switching out hats and…
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Stage and Cinema Interview: MICHAEL PERETZIAN (Director of DYING CITY at Rogue Machine in L.A.)
DYING TO DIRECT It turns out that a career as a top literary agent at William Morris and CAA served as a solid stepping-stone for Michael Peretzian’s dream job: directing in theater. As an agent, Peretzian may have represented many distinguished screenwriters and directors, including John Madden (Shakespeare in Love), Anthony Minghella (The Talented Mr….
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Chicago Theater Review: COLLECTED STORIES (American Blues Theater)
PERFECTED STORIES Ever since Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories premiered at South Coast Rep in 1996, and especially after it hit the Broadway boards starring Linda Lavin in 2010, the one-set, two-character play — being inexpensive to produce — is seemingly occurring at any given time somewhere in the U.S.A. There is some predictability in the plot,…
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Film Review: IRON MAN 3 (directed by Shane Black)
AN IRONING MACHINE, OR IRONY MAN In a movie where flying metal meets flying metaphors, Iron Man 3 is like rooting for a good hammer. Billionaire playboy industrialist Tony Stark makes it possible to pilot a fleet of Iron Man outfits by remote control while he munches In-N-Out burgers from miles away. Iron Man has…
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Los Angeles Cinema Feature: LAST REMAINING SEATS (Los Angeles Conservancy)
MOVIES THE WAY THEY WERE MEANT TO BE SEEN 26 years ago, a handful of volunteers from The Los Angeles Conservancy, a nonprofit that recognizes, preserves, and revitalizes the historic architectural of L.A. County, dreamt up Last Remaining Seats, a summertime program which presents classic films and live entertainment in historic movie palaces. The brilliantly…
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