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Los Angeles Theater Review: DOSTOEVSKY’S NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND (Zombie Joe’s Underground)
DOSTOEVSKY’S NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground at Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre in North Hollywood ought not to surface. This willfully banal production of the Russian classic refrains from connecting with the audience and instead, serves only their self-absorbed conceits. More concerned with making a joke about Lankershim Boulevardland than it is with both relating…
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Chicago Theater Review: OTHER DESERT CITIES (Goodman Theatre)
FIXING WHAT WON’T HEAL Jon Robin Baitz’ Broadway drama Other Desert Cities depicts a crisis of apparent betrayal and imminent exposure that besets the Wyeth clan, a wealthy Jewish family sheltered in the oasis of Palm Springs. Viewed one way, Baitz’ Pulitzer Prize finalist is very much a two-act family fight. But, as Arthur Miller…
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Chicago Theater Review: ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST (Oracle)
ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF A PLAY Anarchy is not chaos. The former means “without law,” and the latter means “without form.” This is an important distinction to consider in a play that intends to make an argument for anarchy. After a government scandal, a schizoid anarchist poses as certain government officials to disrupt the government from…
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Theater Review: THE MUSIC MAN (The Paramount)
ONE RIVER CITY DESERVES ANOTHER If ever a show spelled out summer, it’s Meredith Willson’s 1957 masterpiece The Music Man. Throughout the rollicking story the title character exudes sunny optimism and buoyant confidence, a contagious flimflam that “Professor” Harold Hill wants to believe as much as the suckers who take it in. For four magical…
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Los Angeles Music Feature: LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE: BRAHMS’ REQUIEM (Disney Hall)
A REQUIEM IN FLOWER The Los Angeles Master Chorale captures the shared human experience with a pairing of Brahms’ sublime Ein Deutsches Requiem and the West Coast premiere of The World in Flower, Peter Lieberson’s lyrical and moving message of tolerance written in memory of his wife and muse, famed mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, with…
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Broadway Theater Review: PICNIC (American Airlines Theater)
AS HARMLESS AS A PICNIC Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of William Inge’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Picnic is the perfect show to take your mom to. I know because I did. An excellent cast – which includes Ellen Burstyn, Mare Winningham, and Reed Birney – solid staging, topnotch stagecraft elements, and a well-crafted, thoughtful script full…
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Bay Area Theater Review: TROUBLEMAKER, OR THE FREAKIN KICK-A ADVENTURES OF BRADLEY BOATRIGHT (Berkeley Rep)
STURM AND SLANG Every generation writes its own playbook for tackling the game of life. These new rules are encoded in language that the previous generation (parents, Old School, The Establishment) usually finds baffling. Flummoxing grown-ups with newfangled lingo (think: fresh, dope, rad and bitchin’) helps young people find a voice, establish an identity and…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: FREUD’S LAST SESSION (Broad Stage)
TALKING HEADS Mark St. Germain’s commercially successful two-hander Freud’s Last Session, suggested by The Question of God by Dr. Armand M. Nicoli, Jr., is about a speculative meeting between the titular founder of Psychoanalysis and Christian author/Oxford professor C. S. Lewis. Having cut its teeth at The Barrington Stage Company followed by a long run…
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Upcoming Los Angeles Music Feature: LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: MOZART’S REQUIEM (Royce Hall and Alex Theatre)
IN PRAISE OF MOZART’S REQUIEM I’ll never forget the first time I heard Mozart’s Requiem. I was wandering through the streets of Paris on a warm summer evening and I happened to stop at the magnificent Madeleine Church on the Place de la Concorde. Inside was a full orchestra with choir and soloists rehearsing the…
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Film/VOD Review: TELL YOUR FRIENDS! THE CONCERT FILM! (directed by Victor Varnado)
DOCUSTANDUP Victor Varnado and Liam McEneaney’s comedy documentary is simple and a little grungy, in tune with the unpretentious vibe at Tell Your Friends, a weekly indie show at Lolita Bar where alternative and mainstream comedians “workshop new material and feel free to fuck around” (Liam McEneaney, founder and host). After a bland opening musical…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE GRAND IRRATIONALITY (The Lost Studio)
A FINE MESS The Grand Irrationality: The title of playwright Jemma Kennedy’s romantic comedy refers to the concept found in astrology relating to ultimate chaos – e.g., the idea that sometimes the stars and the constellations are entirely out of whack, without order, or prone to nothing but random disorder. Of course, Kennedy’s interest is…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: C’EST DU CHINOIS (Public Theater)
BREAKING THE LANGUAGE BARRIER The French expression “C’est du Chinois” means “It’s all Greek to me” – or, literally translated, “It’s Chinese.” The phrase is typically flippant and dismissive of cultural differences, marking a refusal to engage a linguistic barrier. Yet the play C’est du Chinois, conceptualized and directed by Edit Kaldor, creates a rather…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: GANESH VERSUS THE THIRD REICH (Public Theater)
BACK TO BACK BRINGS ISSUES TO THE FRONT The concept for Ganesh versus the Third Reich is staggering: the Indian god Ganesh travels through Nazi Germany to confront Adolf Hitler and reclaim the ancient Hindu symbol of the swastika. This fantastical imagined history confronts the shifting meaning of signs and questions of cultural appropriation, particularly…
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Upcoming Los Angeles Music Feature: RENÉE FLEMING and SUSAN GRAHAM (Disney Hall)
EXOTICISM INCARNATE Renée Fleming and Susan Graham, two of the ecosphere’s leading superstars of opera, have crisscrossed the globe accumulating legions of fans. While they have on occasion appeared in the same opera together, rare is the opportunity to see these two songstresses sing for you in a salon-styled concert. Well, pop the cork on…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: 2 DIMENSIONAL LIFE OF HER (Public Theater)
MULTI-DIMENSIONAL The virtuosic Fleur Elise Noble (performer, director, and set designer) constructs a world of artistic possibilities in 2 Dimensional Life of Her. Across a series of flat surfaces – the shadow of a woman standing atop a chair, large panels spanning the back of the theater and stage right, sheets and signs and crumpled…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: HOLLOW ROOTS (Public Theater)
NOTHING HOLLOW ABOUT IT Is it possible for a person of color to have a “neutral narrative”: A story untainted by race or gender, disentangled from the ghosts of the past, unaffected by theory and –isms? Is it possible for a person of color to have hollow roots, and if so, is an empty heritage…
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Los Angeles/Tour Theater Feature: TARTUFFE (Actors’ Gang)
THE ACTORS’ GANG’S TARTUFFE RETURNS FOR THREE NIGHTS BEFORE NATIONAL TOUR The Actors’ Gang, the critically acclaimed Los Angeles based ensemble theatre company, will present highly successful version of Moliere’s comic masterpiece, Tartuffe, for three shows only before it hits the road on its national tour. This fast-paced, outrageously funny, farcical romp is precisely the…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: SOLDIER SONGS (Schimmel Center for the Arts)
ASSAULTED If you’re looking to experience the shell shock and the trauma that soldiers undergo during wartime and its aftermath, then head on down to the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University to see David T. Little’s operatic Soldier Songs. But please heed the warning. This multimedia event is not your garden-variety…
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Regional Theater Review: THE MOTHERFUCKER WITH THE HAT (South Coast Rep)
THE HONESTY OF HYPOCRISY The Motherfucker with the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis is a crackling, compelling play that finds genuine comic pathos not only in its characters’ struggles with addiction, violence, poverty, sexual compulsion, and sexual identity, but in their various, mostly unfulfilled, attempts to distinguish between the people they are and the people they…
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Theater Feature: PETER PAN (national tour)
PETER PAN AND CATHY RIGBY HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON: THEY WON’T GROW UP When the musical fantasy adaptation of James M. Barrie’s Peter Pan landed on Broadway in 1954, it received rave reviews. Critics were high on Mary Martin as the boy who leads the three Darling children into Never Land where they encounter the…
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