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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE GRAPES OF WRATH (A Noise Within)
RIPPED TO RAGS IN A BEAUTIFUL WAY John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize and National Book award-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath operates as both a harrowing portrait of the American struggle for life, liberty, and happiness, and an impassioned rally cry for the downtrodden; it is a fitting title (suggested by the writer’s wife) considering it…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: REALLY REALLY (Lucille Lortel Theatre; directed by David Cromer)
THE PARADOX OF A CONTEMPTUOUS PLAY AND ITS AFTEREFFECTS Early in Act II of Paul Downs Colaizzo’s incisive new play Really Really, my theatergoing companion Liz let out an audible sigh of frustration at the same moment as I slouched in my seat and crossed my arms. All too predictably, this is where the drama…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: SEXSTING (Skylight)
CYBER SEEDINESS, FBI BUREAUCRACY, AND TABOO MONSTROSITY COME TO VIVID LIFE IN SEXSTING Written in collaboration with Internet crime attorney Susan Raffanti, Doris Baizley’s boundary-blurring examination of entrapment ethics depicts the undercover Internet chat room exchanges of an FBI investigator. Working under reactionary bureaucratic top-down pressure, the agent’s modus operandi is the explicit entrapment of…
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Chicago Theater Review: IMPROBABLE FREQUENCY (Strawdog Theatre Company)
WINTER FLUFF “We’re all in the gutter/But some of us have our ear to the ground.” If you find this limp lyric endlessly repeated in this silly-ass, pun-crazed musical instantly amusing, read no further and see this show. For everyone else, Strawdog Theatre Company’s Midwest premiere of Arthur Riordan’s Irish musical will need to take…
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Documentary Film Review: THE HOUSE I LIVE IN (Directed by Eugene Jarecki)
AND YOU THOUGHT THIS WAS THE HOUSE THAT CRACK BUILT As with any empire which has come before, America has a nasty habit of singling out groups of its denizens to bear the blame for the country’s ills. Since landing in Virginia over 400 years ago, fringe groups and individuals have been chosen by the powers that…
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Chicago Opera Review: THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (Harris Theater)
THE HORROR OF SELF-DENIAL FUELS INVENTIVE STAGING Chicago Opera Theater has teamed up with Long Beach Opera in California to produce a delightfully disturbing presentation of Philip Glass’ adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s renowned horror text, The Fall of the House of Usher. While the clichés of such American Gothic might seem to call for…
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Chicago Theater Review: FROM DOO WOP TO HIP HOP (Black Ensemble Theater)
MUSIC’S MANY BRIDGES It’s a proven power at the Black Ensemble Theater: No disease is so deadly, no crisis so catastrophic that a song can’t cure it within twenty bars. Add 20 more songs that bridge the generation gap, as happens in B.E.T.’s generous new offering, From Doo Wop to Hip Hop, and happiness becomes…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE WOMEN OF WOODY (Oh My Ribs!)
WOODY LIGHT One iconic comic writer; eight monologues cut from the screen time of seven of his most memorable female characters; a six-person, all male cast: Those are the ingredients of Roy Cruz’s latest monologue-homage-comedy show, The Women of Woody, presented by Oh My Ribs! last weekend. Cruz’s last project in this vein was the…
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Chicago Theater Review: SPEAKING IN TONGUES (Interrobang Theatre Project at Theater Wit)
STORIES IN A SPIN CYCLE If ever the cliché “the plot thickens” justifies itself, it’s in this relentlessly inventive 1996 work by Australian playwright Andrew Bovell; anacondas after their bi-annual meal should thicken like this self-generating drama. Bovell’s well-named Speaking in Tongues employs four actors – flawlessly coordinated in Jeffry Stanton’s intricate staging for Interrobang…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: PARADISE – A DIVINE BLUEGRASS MUSICAL COMEDY (Ruskin)
ON THE WAY TO PARADISE [EDITOR’S NOTE: Since this 2013 review, Paradise has been re-tooled. Please see our new review of the 2018 production.] There is a telling item buried among the bric-a-brac of Stephanie Kerley Schwartz’s detailed country set of an economically depressed, coal-mining, hillbilly burg named Paradise: A tin sign shows a forest…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS (Theatre Asylum)
THE THEATER TAKES ON CORPORATE AMERICA’S EVILS After a flurry of controversy in 2012, Mike Daisey’s provocative activism-cum-monologue work, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, is playing at Theatre Asylum. This factual account is testimony of the tragic human exploitation that occurs at the Foxconn factory in Shengzhen, China, the world’s biggest manufacturer of Apple…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: EARLY PLAYS (The Wooster Group at REDCAT)
WAY TOO EARLY PLAYS Imagine you’d never heard of the Wooster Group, and that you knew nothing of the avant-garde theater’s storied history, or its origins in the downtown scene of 1970s New York that revitalized the American stage, or its famous founders including Spalding Gray and Willem Dafoe. And suppose you didn’t know who…
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Chicago Theater Review: 25 SAINTS (Pine Box at Greenhouse Theater Center)
25 SAINTS A 75-minute exercise in dead-end disaster tautly directed by Susan E. Bowen, this new work by Pine Box Theater ensemble member Joshua Rollins tightly fits the theater company’s action-oriented theatricality. It also delivers a pitiless look at the “forgotten world of Appalachia,” specifically a misery known as West Virginia. Corruption seems to grow…
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Chicago Theater Review: CRIME SCENE: A CHICAGO ANTHOLOGY (Collaboraction)
THEATER FOR SOCIAL CHANGE With fifty-two murders to date in 2013 as I write this review – over a murder a day – the death toll in Chicago seems as ubiquitous as it is tragic. Collaboraction Theatre Company strives to raise awareness, puncture apathy, and perhaps even instigate change in their new work Crime Scene:…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: SKETCHES FROM THE NATIONAL LAMPOON (Hayworth Theatre)
YOU CAN SKIP THESE SKETCHY SKETCHES Those of us who are of a certain age reverently remember the National Lampoon as being one of the great humor magazines of the 1970s and early 1980s. Yes, the film Animal House essentially brought the Lampoon “brand” into the mainstream, but prior to that, the ribald humor and…
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Chicago Theater Review: COMPLETENESS (Theater Wit)
PARADOXICAL DUALITIES It’s brainy almost beyond endurance and savvy in its approach/avoidance strategies of gaming love. Happily, Itamar Moses’ Completeness at Theater Wit is also engrossingly directed by Jeremy Wechsler as it chronicles a complicated, captivating relationship between two scientific searchers, Elliott and Molly. Easily and perversely, they can reason themselves out of what they…
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Los Angeles/Regional Theater Review: ALADDIN’S LUCK (Lewis Family Playhouse)
ALL YOUR WISHES ARE GRANTED The production values of MainStreet Theatre Company’s 70-minute performance of Aladdin’s Luck at the Lewis Family Playhouse in Rancho Cucamonga were among the best I’ve seen in mid-size regional theaters in both Europe and America. The very reasonably priced tickets ($16 full-prized adult, with various opportunities for discounts) couldn’t have…
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Chicago Theater Review: A SOLDIER’S PLAY (Raven Theatre)
TWO BATTLES IN ONE WAR As sturdily written and swiftly moving as it was in 1982, Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play remains an enduring testament to the homefront battles that African-American soldiers fought during World War II, within their ranks as well as with white comrades in arms. It’s the kind of upfront, downhome American…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: CHRISTMAS IN HANOI (East West Players)
THE GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT Race and immigration are popular topics on the LA stage, at least when it comes to more serious theatre. And there is good reason for this. LA is an incredibly multiracial and multicultural city that can be incredibly welcoming to non-white immigrants as well as threatening, persecuting and deadly. Some…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: A FAMILY THING (Echo Theatre Company
BRAWL IN THE FAMILY It’s a funny thing about families. We didn’t choose them, but they form the most important relationships in our lives. It’s the luck of the draw and some of us get dealt the aces and some the deuces. In A Family Thing, Gary Lennon’s brutal black comedy of familial misfortune, the…
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