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New York Opera Review: RIGOLETTO (Metropolitan Opera)
A GAMBLE WHICH DOESN’T ALWAYS PAY OFF Flashing, fluorescent lights, glitzy blazers, showgirls galore, and an immodest display of drama and decadence are the background for… wait… is that Dean Martin? No, the handsome and rakish would-be villain of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto, played rapturously by tenor Piotr Beczala, is the Duke of a casino. Set in…
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Chicago Theater Review: LUTHER (Steep Theatre)
PUPPET SHOW Ethan Lipton’s Luther received rave reviews when it premiered in New York last June, yet it enjoyed only a brief run. So it makes sense that Steep Theater would want to try out the dark satire on Chicago and see if it sticks. Unfortunately due to an unfocused script and misguided direction, it…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: WALKING THE TIGHTROPE (24th STreet Theatre)
WALKING THE TIGHTROPE STRIKES A PERFECT BALANCE AND SOARS TO THEATRICAL PERFECTION Lab24, the resident experimental theater company of the 24th STreet Theatre [sic], has scored a stupendous success with their debut production Walking the Tightrope. Based on a lyric poem by Mike Kenny, director Debbie Devine has transformed the ode into a highly stylized…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: LOVESICK (LOFT Ensemble)
GOTH MEETS GIRL During the first five minutes of Lovesick I was beginning to think I had ended up at a school play. The acting was highly exaggerated, the props looked like elementary school paper-mache and the dialogue was doggerel verse. Fortunately, it got better. I wish I could say it got a lot better….
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Los Angeles Theater Review: ABSOLUTELY FILTHY (Sacred Fools Theatre)
A RAUCHNY REUNION FOR THE PEANUTS GANG Set at Charlie Brown’s funeral in modern-day Los Angeles, Brendan Hunt’s raunchy parody, Absolutely Filthy, is an admirably smutty comedy which imagines a dysfunctional reunion of the Peanuts gang, now all grown-up, cocksure, and full of middle-age disgruntlement. Under the fluid comedic direction of Jeremy Aldridge at Sacred…
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Chicago Theater Review: HAPPY NOW? (Shattered Globe at Stage 773)
A DAISY CHAIN OF DEAD ENDS MAKES FOR INVIGORATING THEATER Shattered Globe Theatre has uncovered yet another tailspinning drama to live up to its name. British playwright Lucinda Cox shows a strong good grasp of dead ends, whether in conversations or in characters. In this sardonic black comedy – with the ironic and accusatory title Happy Now? –…
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Film Review: BETTING THE FARM (directed by Cecily Pingree and Jason Mann)
MERCIFULLY, A DOCUMENTARY WHICH IS NOT MILKED FOR SENTIMENT Cecily Pingree and Jason Mann’s superb documentary focuses on a group of Maine organic dairy farmers who are unceremoniously dropped by their distributor (H.P. Hood, the off-camera villain of the film). The farmers decide that rather than let their lives be ruined by this arbitrary outside…
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San Francisco Theater Review: 4000 MILES (A.C.T.)
GROWING UP AND GROWING OLD Engaging, comfortable, realistic, gripping, and heart-tugging – all these tags apply equally to story, language, script and performances in American Conservatory Theater’s 4000 Miles, graciously directed by Mark Rucker. Billed as a “comic drama,” 4000 Miles is indeed an engrossing human drama spiced with down-to-earth humor. 21-year-old Leo arrives unexpectedly…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE WHIPPING MAN (Northlight Theatre)
BONDAGE IN EGYPT AND VIRGINIA Of the 150,000 Jews who lived in the U.S during the Civil War, twice as many (6,000) fought for the Union as for the Confederacy. Less well-known is the fact that hundreds of Southern Jews owned, sold, bought and interbred with slaves: One minority in effect profited from the miseries…
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San Francisco Theater Review: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (African-American Shakespeare Company)
A SOBERING AND SUBSTANTIAL CAT Why do we tend to stick with the intolerable? When slashing at those closest to us becomes our way of filling inner emptiness or expressing a family bond, even love, what extremes are we capable of? Is it possible that webs of deceit can serve as a strong familial glue…
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Theater Review: TRACK 3 (Theatre Movement Bazaar at Bootleg)
RUSHIN’ RUSSIAN Track 3 at the Bootleg Theater is a peculiar sort. Richard Alger’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s classic Three Sisters is better described as a transmogrification of the text. The play centers on sisters Olga, Masha, Irina, and their brother, Andrei. Dissatisfied with life in a provincial town, they all share a yearning to…
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Chicago Theater Review: STADIUM DEVILDARE (Red Tape Theater)
A CIRCUS BUT NO BREAD The theater space is a cavernous church gym with lousy acoustics. The intrepid thespians at Red Tape Theatre transform it into the title setting, an arena of death without dignity: It’s set in an American war zone (presumably to show the interconnection between the violence of reality T.V. and actual…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE SNAKE CAN (Odyssey Theatre)
OPEN THIS SNAKE CAN AND ALL THAT POPS OUT IS WHINE AND CHEESE Three BFFs get together to commiserate over their fates in the world premiere of The Snake Can, Kathryn Grant’s (Hermetically Sealed) shallow and unfulfilling salute to middle age angst. Devoid of subtext and any semblance of substance the show struggles unsuccessfully to…
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Chicago Opera Review: LA BOHÈME (Lyric Opera of Chicago)
RELIABLE CROWD-PLEASER ONCE AGAIN, WELL, PLEASES THE CROWD Puccini’s La Bohème has succeeded numerous times at Lyric Opera since its first performance in 1954, but their newest production is fresh and satisfying. First of all, it’s hard to go wrong (in general) with La Bohème, a relatively light tragedy buoyed with easy-to-love characters, provocative music…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: HAPPY FACE SAD FACE (Elephant Lillian Theatre)
A UNIQUELY ENTERTAINING MISSED OPPORTUNITY The concept of Happy Face Sad Face is an intriguing one that consists of two one act plays; the first a drama, the second a comedy. Now before you go all “been there, seen that” on me, consider this twist. The program teases that both one acts are “:the same…
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Chicago Theater Review: CONCERNING STRANGE DEVICES FROM THE DISTANT WEST (TimeLine Theatre)
A SPECTACULAR AND FASCINATING JOURNEY IN WHICH THINGS ARE NOT AS THEY SEEM Cameras have evolved from room-sized camera obscuras, to the box-like contraption of the nineteenth century, to the mundane and miniscule phone cameras in every modern pocket. We are now subject to constant documentation and the distribution of images can be global and…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE GOOD NEGRO (Hudson Mainstage)
THE SLIPPERY SIGNIFICANCE OF GREAT AND GOOD A person’s true character is revealed in crisis. The road to triumph is filled with battles lost and sacrifices made, but overall it is worth the pain and perseverance. Tracey Scott Wilson’s The Good Negro follows Reverend James Lawrence, who leads the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: RUBY WAX: OUT OF HER MIND (The Broad Stage)
AVOIDABLE MADNESS There’s a show running right now at a smaller venue of a state-of-the-art West Side arts complex. It’s a foreign import, a one-woman show that, in a different format as Ruby Wax: Losing It, has spent years touring asylums with its garbled message of exculpatory hope for those suffering mental illness. Because the…
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Upcoming Los Angeles/Chicago Opera Feature: THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (Long Beach Opera and Chicago Opera Theater)
GOTHIC OPERA You will notice in the first five paragraphs of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” that the storyteller’s description of an ancient decomposing castle, surrounded by a fetid and motionless moat, expertly sets the scene for a gothic tale. Speaking of the mansion, the narrator feels “an utter depression…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE CONCERT (Second Stage Theatre)
If The Concert is any indication, than the contemporary musical theater scene is overwhelmingly characterized by pop rock stylings and a crazy high belt. Celebrating the launch of the Directory of Contemporary Theatre Writers, The Concert at Second Stage Theatre on Monday, January 21, presented an array of new musical theater songs performed by a…
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