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Chicago Theater Review: THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (Steppenwolf)
PIôATA FULL OF DARKNESS Don’t be concerned if you don’t receive an invitation to Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party – the Steppenwolf’s revival production is still an event not to be missed. Caretaker Meg Bowles and her deck-chair attendant spouse, Petey (Moira Harris, returning to the Steppenwolf for the first time since 1998, and John…
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Stage and Cinema Theater Interview: IMPRO THEATRE
AN IMPROVISED TRUTH Los Angeles-based Impro Theatre opens a run of Jane Austen: UnScripted on Valentine’s Day at the Pasadena Playhouse’s Carrie Hamilton Theatre. Their most recent L.A. performance at the Odyssey Theatre, inspired by another giant of international literature, may offer a parallel idea of what to expect in Pasadena: The set awaits, a pleasant throw…
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San Francisco Theater Review: SE LLAMA CRISTINA (Magic Theatre)
FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE SPANISH GHETTO Octavio Solis’ Se Llama Cristina is a gritty, mind-bending trip. The main characters, Man and Woman, slip in and out of past, present, and future with varying degrees of lucidity. They and the audience struggle to keep a grasp on what’s real. What is tangible is that Magic…
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Theater Review: LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR & GRILL (Porchlight)
THE LADY OF THE GARDENIAS Thanks to Lanie Robertson’s bedrock-basic script, Rob Lindley’s dedicated staging and the utter effacement of a good vocalist into a great one, courtesy of Alexis Rogers, Porchlight Music Theatre’s 90-minute revival pays full, if conditional, homage to Billie Holiday’s heroism and heartbreak. Unlike her famous “God Bless the Child,” Lady…
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Bay Area Theater Review: OUR PRACTICAL HEAVEN (Aurora Theatre)
THE SEMBLANCE OF A PLAY It is unfortunate that Our Practical Heaven is a relationship-fueled play, because it was difficult to invest in any of the characters. The two-hour play, now receiving its world premiere at the Aurora in Berkeley, contained one-dimensional characters and lacked a three-dimensional story. Anthony Clarvoe’s script resulted from Aurora’s Global…
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LOS ANGELES THEATER FEATURE: MISS COCO PERU: SHE’S GOT BALLS (L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center)
THE DRAG QUEEN TO DRAG YOUR THOUGHTS AWAY FROM YOUR TROUBLES I first saw Coco Peru perform in a B movie sendup – a campy romp called Blood Orgy of the Carnival Queens! But at New York’s Off-Off-Broadway Hamlet Theatre in 1994, the actress playing Kitty Valise, Student Nurse was simply Miss Coco. Later that week,…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE DEEP THROAT SEX SCANDAL (Zephyr Theatre)
WHERE’S THE SCANDAL? When I first drove past the Zephyr Theatre looking for parking, I saw what appeared to be anti-pornographic picketers on the sidewalk in front of the building. I wasn’t looking forward to wading through that melee. Well, by the time I parked and finally arrived for the show, the picketers were nowhere…
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Film Review: WARM BODIES (directed by Jonathan Levine)
THINGS ARE DEAD ALL OVER Summit Entertainment, the company that brought the Twilight series to the big screen, continues to explore horror film dating options with the satire Warm Bodies – an inevitability considering America’s love affair with zombies and hot teenage vampires. This RrrrrRomeo and Juliet story, based on the Isaac Marion novel, mashes…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: BACKBEAT: THE BIRTH OF THE BEATLES (Ahmanson Theatre)
TALK ABOUT A LONG AND WINDING ROAD So, this cool cat painter, a blonde Frau, and several Liverpool lads named John, Paul, George, and Pete walk into a bar in Hamburg: While this sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, it is actually a more accurate description of Backbeat, a bad “musical.” Based on…
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Chicago Theater Review: SOUTHBRIDGE (Chicago Dramatists)
SOMEWHAT SOUTH OF WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE Chicago Dramatists’ world premiere is a tale of murder, spirituality, and heartbreak: A black man named Stranger, after being accused of the murder of his white employer, Widow Luckey, recalls to the town sheriff the events that led up to his arrest. It’s a compelling, complex story…
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Chicago Theater Review: SUNSET BOULEVARD (Drury Lane Theatre)
READY FOR HER CLOSE-UP, MR. DEMILLE From the start it seemed strange that anyone would make a musical out of a movie that embodies its medium so completely. Yes, the film All About Eve deserved to become the musical Applause; both were obsessed with the theater. But Billy Wilder’s consummately cinematic 1950 masterpiece was a…
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Book Review: SHOWBIZ (Dress Circle Publishing)
MOUNTING OLYMPUS Think of it as Twilight for the theater geek or Smash in literary form. You may love to hate it or hate to love it, but Ruby Preston’s new novel Showbiz is an undeniable page-turner: a fabulously fun, fictional glimpse into the drama of mounting a Broadway musical today. Scarlett Savoy is an…
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Chicago Theater Review: SWEET CHARITY (Writers’ Theatre)
SAD TRIUMPH OF HOPE OVER EXPERIENCE It’s like kicking a puppy dog to dislike Charity Hope Valentine. Charity is the cloyingly-named heroine of the 1966 musical by Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields and Neil Simon, a show once made famous by Gwen Verdon’s slinkiness and Bob Fosse’s choreography. Writers’ Theatre approaches this strange amalgam of high…
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Dance Review: THE JOFFREY BALLET’S LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS (Reconstructed Version at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles)
THE RITE OF JOFFREY One hundred years ago, a new ballet took place in Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. This highly controversial work – for both its music and choreography – would revolutionize dance and thrust ballet and classical music into the modern era. As if the avant-garde nature of the dance was not enough to…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: RED, BLACK & GREEN: A BLUES (Marc Bamuthi Joseph/The Living Word Project at REDCAT)
THE COLORS OF OUR LIVES red, black & GREEN: a blues is art at its best and most purposeful; a visceral, engaging narrative that combines theatre, dance, music, spoken word and visual art created and expressed by and for “wonderful human beings” to ask what we are doing to protect and nurture our world and…
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Los Angeles Music Review: LISE DE LA SALLE PLAYS RACHMANINOFF (LA Philharmonic at Disney Hall)
A RARELY HEARD SYMPHONY TRUMPS AN OFT-HEARD RHAPSODY It never makes sense to me why Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3 is still not in the popular orchestral repertoire. Yes, it is approximately 20 minutes shorter than his other Symphonies – No. 1 (1896) and No. 2 (1908) – containing three instead of four movements. It was…
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Los Angeles Music Review: THE INTERRUPTERS (House of Blues)
A WELCOME INTERRUPTION Social Distortion played for over two hours with hardly a break, and sounded better than they did thirty years ago. Eddie Spaghetti of the Supersuckers rasped several songs about smoking and drinking too much. But the story of the night was the aptly-named Los Angeles punks The Interrupters, who opened for all…
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Chicago Theater Review: MINSK, 2011: A REPLY TO KATHY ACKER (Chicago Shakespeare)
A CRY TO CARE The 85-minutes of this electrifying protest play begin with a lone microphone suddenly erupting in an ear-splitting feedback. The noise is intolerable, no less than what it ushers in. After this blast from the other side of the world, individual performer/protesters approach that mike, start to speak, back up and unfurl…
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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE VANDAL (Flea Theater)
FUNNY CONVERSATIONS ABOUT DEATH Hamish Linklater’s very funny, sharp and tender new play The Vandal begins on a cold winter night as a down-on-her-luck middle-aged woman waits for a bus on a deserted street. A skinny high-school boy appears and starts up a conversation. Precocious and lively, he quickly overcomes the woman’s reluctance to participate….
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Los Angeles Theater Review: CASSIOPEIA (Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena)
IN THE SHADOW OF STARS David Wiener’s ten-year-old, never-before-produced play Cassiopeia needs work. As usual at Boston Court, this experimental piece has received a production so grand that it more than warrants seeing. Also typical of Boston Court, this challenging show is so sharp that it highlights the weaknesses of its script, such that Mr….
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