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Off-Off-Broadway/Regional Theater Review: SOMETHING’S GOT AHOLD OF MY HEART (La MaMa)
THE MANY FACES OF LOVE Even before you walk into the First Floor Theatre at La Mama to attend Something’s Got Ahold of My Heart, creators Hand2Mouth ensemble are already selling you a good time and – for the most part – the company follows through on their sale. The partially-improvised, partially-scripted musical about love…
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Chicago Theater Review: I LOVE LUCY: LIVE ON STAGE (Broadway Playhouse)
THAT KINKY KINESCOPE It’s a time trip that denies the original intent’”a live taping of a dead T.V. series. The iconic archetype of the boob tube’s “golden age,” I Love Lucy wasn’t just the longest-running T.V. show’”it set the standards and stories for domestic sitcoms until All in the Family changed the rules forever. Depending…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE (UCLA’s Freud Playhouse)
‘TIS PITY IT’S A SHORT RUN Cheek by Jowl’s touring production of John Ford’s revenge tragedy, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, landed at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse for a brief run. The true pity would be to miss this extraordinary production. John Ford’s play is a Jacobean hot mess. Giovanni (a charismatic Orlando James) is in…
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Broadway Theater Review: THE OTHER PLACE (Samuel J. Friedman Theater)
LAURIE METCALF BELONGS IN THE OTHER PLACE In The Other Place, Sharr White’s riveting and affective play, Laurie Metcalf delivers a poignant and masterfully crafted performance as Juliana, a neurologist and holder of a billion-dollar patent, whose life suddenly starts crumbing before her eyes. The show begins with her – confident, sophisticated, impregnable – lecturing…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE MOTHERFUCKER WITH THE HAT (Steppenwolf)
HATS OFF TO STEPPENWOLF If the title wasn’t enough of a clue, Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Motherfucker with the Hat is filled with bad language. But what’s really surprising is how well it uses creative vulgarity to shape a hilarious tale. Jackie (John Ortiz) is a recovering alcoholic on parole who seems to be finally…
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Los Angeles/Regional Event Preview: SHATNER’S WORLD: WE JUST LIVE IN IT (Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa)
SCOTTY, BEAM SHATNER UP TO SEGERSTROM Shatner: Another Frontier. Here, the octogenarian Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe winner makes his tour. Its one-year mission: To entertain trekkies and old souls, to shed light on the iconic career being Captain Kirk and the personal struggles he continues to grapple with as a man, to boldly sing and…
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Los Angeles/Regional Music Preview: LE SALON DE MUSIQUES: LES NOUVEAUX ROMANTIQUES! (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion)
A SECRET NO MORE Have you ever been to a Chamber Concert in a grand venue such as Walt Disney Hall or Carnegie Hall but wished you could experience the program in the intimacy of a hostess’ living room? Many is the time after a concert that I have craved to mingle with the virtuosic…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: WATER BY THE SPOONFUL (Second Stage)
A POWERFUL WATER BY THE SPOONFUL CONTAINS CONFUSION BY THE CUPFUL Quiara Alegria Hudes’ 2012 Pulitzer-Prize winning Water by the Spoonful is a bold and provocative drama that uses cyber technology to illustrate the woes of addiction. Hudes – book writer for In the Heights – draws from true events and real-life family members to…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: KING LEAR (Porters of Hellsgate)
CRACK YOUR CHEEKS By placing himself in the charge of his fickle children, old King Lear abandons the security of his own reason to wander an inhospitable wilderness. Â It’s a fitting metaphor for a venerable script at the mercy of a production lacking the chops to do it justice, and for an audience perched for…
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Los Angeles/Regional Music Preview: PACIFIC SYMPHONY: BEETHOVEN’S VIOLIN CONCERTO & SCHEHERAZADE (Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa)
TWO MASTERWORKS ARE SURE TO THRILL I heard the most exquisite violin playing on KUSC today. It was a Max Bruch violin concerto and I was thrilled when the announcer informed that it was Canadian virtuoso James Ehnes, as I had already made plans to see the Grammy-Award winning violinist this weekend. Ehnes, who masters…
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Chicago Theater Review: ALLOTMENT ANNIE (Strawdog Theater)
YOU ONLY DIE ONCE One of the great pick-up lines that soldiers and sailors on leave during World War II (and probably the Trojan War too) used to seduce a one-night standee was, “Let’s do it – I could be dead in a month.” Chicago playwright Mark Mason’s sardonic Allotment Annie gives this plea a…
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Los Angeles Music Review: LA PHILHARMONIC: ESCHENBACH CONDUCTS TCHAIKOVSKY (Walt Disney Concert Hall)
THE JOY OF TEARS Having experienced 307 U.S. National Parks, I am keenly aware of the musical sounds of nature, such as the haunting accelerando of wind through pine needles, the drone of a bee, or the ever-changing sounds of water, as with bubbling staccato over stones, or a cascading scherzo down a ravine. Tan…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: SANTASIA (Whitefire Theatre)
SANTASTIC! Sometimes in life, it’s the last Christmas present we open that makes up for all the lousy ones we unwrapped before. In what is truly the most dismal season of holiday-themed shows, I happened upon one on Christmas Eve which, unbeknownst to me, has been an annual event for 13 years. Santasia: A Holiday…
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Los Angeles Music Review: LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE: HANDEL’S MESSIAH (Walt Disney Concert Hall)
‘HANDEL’ED WELL, BUT NOT THE SECOND COMING Los Angeles Master Chorale returned to Walt Disney Concert Hall to conclude its holiday programming with the perennial holiday classical chestnut, Handel’s Messiah. The choir was impeccable under Music Director Grant Gershon’s athletic conducting, and the use of a chamber orchestra brought authenticity to the iconoclastic 1741 English-language…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE UNVEILING & DOZENS OF COUSINS (Trap Door)
HAVEL UNVEILED AT TRAP DOOR While most probably know Václav Havel as the Czech Republic’s first president, he has gained notoriety in the avant garde world for his absurdist plays’”making him the patron saint of edgy liberal arts students everywhere. Just before the holidays, Trap Door opened up two Havel one-acts: The Unveiling and its…
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Los Angeles Music Review: LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE: REJOICE! (Walt Disney Concert Hall)
LAMC BRINGS PEACE AND JOY TO DISNEY HALL Los Angeles Master Chorale’s (LAMC) Christmastime Baroque concert, Rejoice!, had as its headliner Bach’s Magnificat, but less-than-stellar soloists for this work – one which is better-suited for an intimate venue – made the piece more fascinating as a musical study than triumphant as a performance. Still, under…
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Film Review: ZERO DARK THIRTY (directed by Kathryn Bigelow)
BIGELOW STAYS AT WAR The better part of the last decade saw Iraq War movie after Iraq War movie bite the dust. Something was off. Those war films continued to miss their mark until The Hurt Locker, the first Middle Eastern war film from screenwriter Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow. What was the difference? The…
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Chicago Theater Review: OLIVER! (Light Opera Works)
LOCAL BOY MAKES GOOD It’s easy to see what drew Cameron Mackintosh to revive Lionel Bart’s hit musical 18 years ago: Dickens is a lot like Victor Hugo. Like Mackintosh’ smash Les Miserables, the 1960 musical replays an entire novel at warp speed, with fully realized opportunities to depict a swarming cityscape and gloomy Victorian…
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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: THERE THERE (The Chocolate Factory)
CHEKHOV REINVENTED, SORT OF The whimsical premise behind Kristen Kosmas’ brilliantly conceived and deftly executed creation There There is this: Christopher Walken, while touring Russia in a one-man show as Solyony from Chekhov’s Three Sisters, falls off a ladder and is unable to perform. When a proofreader named Karen (the dynamite Ms. Kosmas), is urged…
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New York Opera Review: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (Metropolitan Opera)
THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION MAY LACK RHYTHM, BUT THIS IS ONE HILARIOUS AND UPLIFTING BARBER If you’re looking to usher in the Holiday season with some good entertainment, then look no further than the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. Following a traditional commedia dell’arte structure, this delightful French comedy is amusing…
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