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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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Chicago Theater Review: DICKENS’ WOMEN (Chicago Shakespeare)
A DICKENS OF A PERFORMER It’s been two centuries since Charles Dickens’ birth. Miriam Margolyes, famed for her portrayals in Harry Potter, The Age of Innocence, and William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet offers a well-deserved homage in Dickens’ Women, a one-person tribute directed by Sonia Fraser now playing at Chicago Shakespeare only through Saturday. Dickens’…
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Theater Review: WAR HORSE (National Tour)
AN IMPRESSIVE PUPPET, A SOMEWHAT FOGGY STORY War Horse is all about Joey, a 120 lb. puppet made of bent and stained cane and animated by three puppeteers. Their movements become the breathing of the horse; their voices become his neighs, whether they are pleasure or pain. Towering at 8 feet tall and just under…
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San Francisco Theater Review: BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE (SF Playhouse)
DIVERSE CHARACTERS CAST A THEATRICAL SPELL It’s not Halloween but Christmastime, and the San Francisco Playhouse is ringing in the season in a novel way with their production of Bell, Book and Candle in their sparkling new Post Street venue with its comfy chairs. With its decorative air of belonging to another, long-past time period,…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE BOOK OF MORMON (Bank of America Theatre)
A GILBERT AND SULLIVAN FOR 2012 The best show of the year has finally arrived. The Book of Mormon is a perfectly packaged fusion of the satire we need in a sassy musical comedy with the entertainment genre that America created and deserves. From the wizards who concocted the all-offending South Park series comes an equally irreverent…
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Los Angeles Theatre Review: CHRISTMAS MY WAY (El Portal Theatre)
LET’S BE FRANK The dictionary has two main definitions for the word “bash”: One is “a thoroughly enjoyable, lively party,” which is undoubtedly what the producers of Christmas My Way – A Sinatra Holiday Bash had in mind. However, the second definition of “bash” is far more apt for the misguided offering currently on at…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: WORKING: A MUSICAL (59E59)
WORKING TOO HARD The actors mingle around onstage dressing room tables as the audience takes their seats. The stage manager (Rebecca McBee) calls cues from a corner upstage. Even the band, led by the vibrant Alex Lacamoire, is partially visible atop a platform on the industrial set, designed by Beowulf Borit. It feels appropriate that…
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Los Angeles Theatre Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (A Noise Within)
AN IMPERSONAL CHRISTMAS CAROL What has become of Christmas since Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was published in 1843? In spite of the fact that technology has afforded us numerous opportunities including the ability to connect with one another more immediately than ever, improving our quality of life, and allowing us to select the exact product we…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: CYMBELINE (The Broad Stage in Santa Monica)
THE OLD COLLEGE TRY Brown University/Trinity Rep’s MFA program has a solid reputation as theatre arts training for bright, enthusiastic, well-rounded theatre artists. The challenge for each graduating Brown/Trinity class is to figure out how to transition from the safe isolation of training in provincial Providence, Rhode Island to full-on careers in the far-reaching landscape…
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Los Angeles Cabaret Review: CORTÉS ALEXANDER: Have a SWELL Holiday (Sterling’s Upstairs at the Federal)
ALEXANDER THE GREAT…CHARMER, THAT IS When I first heard Cortés Alexander sing in 1992, he wasn’t alone. He was part of a group named The Tonics, and they performed a jazzy rendition of “Good Thing Going” for a PBS special, Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (which was accompanied by a then-unknown Jason Robert Brown…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: OTHER DESERT CITIES (Mark Taper Forum)
STUCK IN THE DESERT Don’t the powers that be at Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum understand that casting is roughly 80% of a play’s success? Don’t they understand that any play, including Shakespeare, will suffer if an ensemble is fragmented? And when a play like Jon Robin Baitz’ Other Desert Cities is improbable, melodramatic, and…
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Film Review: AMOUR (directed by Michael Haneke)
MECHANICAL BUT EFFECTIVE Any review of Michael Haneke’s Amour should start by noting what a moving story it tells. Did I cry during Amour? Two-ply tissues. Amour gives a gentle but chilling view into the final months of a woman’s life, and the frustration of a husband who must care for his loved one as…
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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: P.S. JONES AND THE FROZEN CITY (The New Ohio Theater)
JONESING FOR MORE PIG SHIT Early in terraNOVA Collective’s comic book adventure P.S. Jones and the Frozen City, the villainous Great Glass Spider spins out of the wall. The regal Sofia Jean Gomez sits atop a wheeled office chair as the spider’s body; two black-clad puppeteers hunch on either side, extending the spider’s large angular…
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