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Bay Area Theater Review: THE FOURTH MESSENGER (Ashby Stage in Berkeley)
MAY THE WONDERFUL FOURTH MESSENGER BE A HARBINGER OF GOOD THEATER TO COME Enter a flight of fancy and imagine the scenario if a deity on the scale of a Buddha were a woman living today, where she and her disciples grapple with modern-day challenges. That is the setup of the exceptional new musical The…
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Chicago Dance Review: AMERICAN LEGENDS (Joffrey Ballet at Auditorium Theatre)
SPRINGING INTO SPRING In Chicago, spring can never come early enough. But, alas, it’s February, so it has to be an indoor sport. Leave it to our homegrown dance company, the Joffrey Ballet, to gloriously unleash spring fever in the bleak late winter. A quartet of dazzling works by Twyla Tharp, Jerome Robbins and the Joffrey…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: TRIASSIC PARQ: THE MUSICAL (Chance Theater in Anaheim Hills)
FRINGE-O-SAUR Winner of the Best Musical title at the 2010 FringeNYC, with music by Marshall Pailet and book by Pailet, Bryce Norbitz and Steve Wargo, Triassic Parq: The Musical is a parody which explores the relationship of personal identity to gender, sexuality, and spirituality in the context of a group of female dinosaurs in the…
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Chicago Theater Review: JULIUS CAESAR (Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO LEND THIS PRODUCTION YOUR EARS Brutal and relentless, Julius Caesar chronicles a fateful course of envy and revenge defeating idealism and loyalty: Brutus and Cassius, the principal murderers of the titular dictator, are dogged to death by his avengers Marc Antony and Octavius Caesar. But the republic the assassinators…
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Chicago Theater Review: BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO (Lookingglass)
FEARFUL SYMMETRY In Rajiv Joseph’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, inspired by an actual 2003 event involving occupying soldiers in Iraq, a slain tiger takes center stage and discusses from the perspective of the newly dead that there is a flash of retrospective honesty which instills a global rather than personal viewpoint. The Tiger…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: CHESS (Musical Theatre Guild)
MUSICAL WITH A CHECKERED PAST GETS A CHECKERED PRODUCTION Chess, the musical about two chess tournaments between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War, is the 1979 brain child of lyricist Tim Rice, who teamed up with ABBA composers Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus to create the (still) immensely popular 1984 concept album….
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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHUAN (La MaMa)
THIS IS NOT YOUR TEXTBOOK BRECHT While productions of Brecht’s plays are often weighed down by theatrical theory and didactic political messages, The Foundry Theatre jolts the audience to attention with a fresh and vibrant production of The Good Person of Szechwan. The Foundry Theatre plays free and loose with this translation by John Willett,…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: THIS CLEMENT WORLD (St. Ann’s Warehouse)
AN ARTISTIC PLEA FOR CHANGE In the wake of Hurricane Sandy and the Blizzard Nemo, global climate change is increasingly palpable. As inclement weather infringes on our day-to-day activities, we should consider the human action that has propelled our world into these storms. Cynthia Hopkins’ sweeping multimedia musical work This Clement World is a mixed…
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Chicago Theater Review: TEDDY FERRARA (Goodman Theatre)
VIRTUAL THEATER Teddy Ferrara, Goodman Theatre’s new commissioned work, is almost three hours long. That excess suggests that nobody had the courage to cut or, not knowing what it was about to start with, couldn’t know where to start or stop. The indulgent length also implies that Teddy Ferrara has a lot of plot to…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: CATCHING THE BUTCHER (Long Beach Playhouse)
PROMISING SCRIPT BUTCHERED BY PRODUCTION VALUES Adam Seidel’s sanguinary dark comedy, Catching the Butcher, is an unlikely and eccentric love story in which a secret and utterly sick relationship develops between Bill, a selectively cruel serial killer, and Nancy, his Stockholm Syndrome affected victim. Seidel uses psychological horror to craft a deliciously demented commentary about…
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San Diego Theater Review: PYGMALION (Old Globe)
GALATEA COMES TO LIFE Transformation. Evolution. Metamorphosis. These words are often confined to biological definition, abused in a critic’s articulation, and criminally under-applied by artists of this generation. Most popular art today can be likened to fast food: Sub-par products synthesized under the pretense that it’s what the consumer is demanding. In actuality, it is…
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Chicago Theater Review: AIRPORT FOR BIRDS (AND OTHER GREAT IDEAS) (UP Comedy Club)
AIRPORT FOR BIRDS FAILS TO TAKE OFF In their sketch comedy show Airport for Birds (and Other Great Ideas), Team StarKid seems to have wracked their brains to come up with as many reasons as possible for the performers to scream: There’s a pair of fitness enthusiasts who think that it’s part of doing yoga…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE GIFT (Geffen Playhouse)
I’D LIKE TO RETURN THIS GIFT, PLEASE The Geffen Playhouse has a proud tradition of staging crackerjack productions of dramatic works by some of the modern theater’s greatest playwrights. To their misfortune, though, these works invariably turn out to be the celebrated playwrights’ most excruciatingly dreadful plays – the ones, you suspect, that the authors…
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San Diego Theater Review: THE BROTHERS SIZE (Old Globe)
A SIZE THAT DOES NOT FIT ALL Of the three plays which constitute Tarell Alvin McCraney’s “The Brother/Sister Plays,” The Brothers Size, now playing at The Old Globe, is the most intimate and confined, much like a chamber piece. The first play of the triptych, In the Red and Brown Water, is an epic tale…
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Los Angeles/Regional Dance Review: THE LITTLE MERMAID (Hamburg Ballet at Segerstrom)
ALL HANS ON DECK Don’t expect the Disneyfication of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid when you attend Hamburg Ballet’s rendition of the tragic 1836 fairy tale, which opened last night at Segerstrom Hall. This imaginative and handsome adaptation is more faithful to its dark and bittersweet source material. In John Neumeier’s version, created for…
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Film Review: KUMARÉ: THE TRUE STORY OF A FALSE PROPHET (directed by Vikram Gandhi)
IMPERFECTLY INSPIRING Kumaré, Vikram Gandhi’s spiritual alter ego and the subject of his navel-gazing documentary, questions the growing Western trend of seeking personal fulfillment through self-sublimation to Eastern gurus. Gandhi, who was raised devoutly in the Hindu tradition and even studied religion in college, initially begins work on a documentary about seeking a true guru….
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: CLIVE (Acorn Theatre)
A DULL DESCENT INTO HELL The charisma and passion Ethan Hawke brings to the title role, Vincent D’Onofrio’s powerful stage presence, a gnarly set by Derek McLane, lovely songs by Latham and Shelby Gains, and evocative lighting (Jeff Croiter), sound (Shane Rettig) and costumes (Cathrine Zuber) all fail to save Jonathan Marc Sherman’s new play,…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: BENCHED (InterACT at Avery Schreiber)
BENCHED SHOULD HAVE BEEN BENCHED A cantankerous senior gets his dander up when he discovers a stranger occupying his favorite Central Park bench in the L.A. premiere of Richard Broadhurst’s Benched. Five minutes into the show I began wishing that the squatter would simply get up and leave so I could as well. No such…
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San Francisco Theater Review: THE MOTHERFUCKER WITH THE HAT (San Francisco Playhouse)
MIGHT AS WELL FACE IT, WE’RE ADDICTED TO, WELL, EVERYTHING In the tragicomedy The Motherfucker with the Hat, every character has something painful in their lives that they are self-medicating. Bronx couple Jackie and Veronica are alcohol and drug addicts, trying hard to get their lives together but continually slipping up. After being imprisoned for…
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Los Angeles Dance/Theater Review: TRAVERSE (Arcosm at Theatre Raymond Kabbaz)
CROSS OVER FROM ROUTINE AND VIVRE LE VIE Napoleon’s vision to make the world his grand empire of France was stifled by his winter campaign in Russia and his defeat at Waterloo. However, what he may not have imagined is France’s prevailing influence in the world – not necessarily as a military superpower – but…
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