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Los Angeles Theater Review: RANK (Odyssey Theatre)
NOT YOUR RANK-AND-FILE PRODUCTION No getting around it: Robert Massey’s Rank is talky and familiar. Without a top-flight cast and director, this show could easily be lost in the vast amount of Los Angeles theater that gets staged as if it would rather be filmed for cable television. But in its American premiere at the…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: ON THE SPECTRUM (Fountain Theatre)
HAVING ISSUES WITH ISSUES Ken LaZebnik’s On the Spectrum, which opened last week at the Fountain Theatre, belongs to a genre known as Theatre of Identity, aka Social Issues Theatre; the idea is to promote a particular cultural identity – in this case, autism. Plays like the currently running Tribes (which deals with deafness) were…
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Los Angeles/Tour Theater Review: ONE NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN (Pasadena Playhouse)
ONE NIGHT WITH PEARL Break out the Southern Comfort and feathered boa, One Night with Janis Joplin is a helluva concert experience presented at the Pasadena Playhouse. Writer-director-creator Randy Johnson offers a celebration of the biographical-musicological journey of Janis Joplin through a psychedelic prism and accents it with 21st century theatrics. No tragedy here, just…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: MRS. WARREN’S PROFESSION (Antaeus Theatre Company)
HOW TO SURVIVE CHAUVINISTIC INHUMANITY WITHOUT REALLY TRYING We live in a nation where people celebrate socialite Kim Kardashian, who bore a child with a man who’s not her husband. Sexual indiscretion can be summed up as “Hey, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” And whether it’s a running joke or understood truth, the…
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Los Angeles Opera Review: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (Pacific Opera Project)
A MATCH MADE IN HOLLYWOOD Last year, the Pacific Opera Project (POP) put on a show about a serial killer who also happened to be a barber: Sweeney Todd. This year, they have staged a production about a much different kind of barber. Figaro, the titular Barber of Seville, is a matchmaker who’s trying to…
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Theater Review: THE WHALE (South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa)
NOT WORTH THE WEIGHT The title of Samuel D. Hunter’s The Whale refers to three things. The first is Charlie, a homebound, 600-pound tutor who instructs online classes in expository writing. Second is a student essay on Moby-Dick. The third is the biblical story of Jonah. At the top of South Coast Rep’s production, Charlie,…
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Broadway Theater Review: VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE (Golden Theatre)
SUGAR RUSH An adorable piece of clever and very funny fluff, Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike takes spoonfuls of ingredients from Chekhov’s plays and mixes them into an American-comedy batter. The result is a very sweet, sugary desert: exhilarating and tasty but innutritious. Vanya (David Hyde Pierce) and Sonia (Kristine Nielsen)…
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Broadway Theater Review: BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (Cort Theatre)
A BREAKFAST THAT LEAVES YOU HUNGRY FOR MORE Richard Greenberg’s new theatrical adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany’s owes more of a debt to Truman Capote’s novella than to the iconic film starring Audrey Hepburn, but audiences will arrive to the Cort Theatre with certain expectations. In particular, one might expect a scene of Holly Golightly…
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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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