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Los Angeles Theater Review: DANGEROUS CORNER (Crown City Theatre)
GIVE UP THE GHOST AND GIVE US WHAT’S REAL The multi-hyphenate J.B. Priestley (Author-Novelist-Playwright-Critic-Essayist-Political Commentator) commented, “Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself – with a smile.” Priestley’s murder-mystery Dangerous Corner revolves around the late Martin Chatfield and the unraveling effect his death has on the intertwined lives of the six people closest to…
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Broadway Theater Review: AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (Manhattan Theatre Club at The Samuel J. Friedman Theatre)
SHOUTING FOR THE MAJORITY In the wake of Occupy Wall Street and the rise of the 99%, Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 political drama An Enemy of the People crackles with contemporary relevance. Manhattan Theatre Club’s production is painted in bold and brash strokes, but it certainly strikes while the iron is hot – just before the…
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Chicago Theater Review: METAMORPHOSES (Lookingglass Theatre Company)
PASSION IN A POOL It took Ovidius Naso, a 1st century Roman poet, to do full justice to Greek myths. Metamorphoses assembled a panoply of gods, heroes and mortals into 15 books of Latin hexameter; the legends cover everything from the creation of the world out of chaos to the deification of Caesar and reign…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE 4TH GRADERS PRESENT AN UNNAMED LOVE-SUICIDE (Coeurage Theatre Company at Actors Circle Theatre)
KIDS KILL THE DARNEDEST THINGS Much has been made recently of the physical and psychological dangers of bullying and hazing. Less is said of their value as a teaching element that makes new members useful to a smooth-running society. Zero-tolerance policies are frequently abhorred by artistic and creative personalities (who appreciate the value of experimentation…
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San Diego Theater Review: MISTAKES WERE MADE (Cygnet Theatre)
WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLDFISH As a rising star in San Diego’s theater scene, Cygnet put a lot of eggs in one basket in producing Mistakes Were Made. Fortunately, they invested in the right basket with Phil Johnson, whose ability to go broadly comedic and then reel it back in sells this show for all…
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Film Review: THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (directed by Stephen Chbosky)
YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH Whatever happened to misbegotten youth in American cinema? Don’t you long for the old days, when young misfits stole things? And ran everywhere? And were French? What happened to the old days, when a well-crafted American movie character could look forward to a life of crime on screen? Nowadays they take medication….
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Los Angeles Dance Review: DIAVOLO (The Broad Stage in Santa Monica)
“ALL THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US IS NOTHING” Los Angeles dance company Diavolo is back at The Broad Stage, remounting their Trajectoire and offering the Southern California premiere of their new piece Transit Space. Trajectoire opens like a sunrise with loud, low drums, two dancers moving almost as one in front of a glowing semicircle. Their…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE STRANGE UNDOING OF PRUDENCIA HART (Chicago Shakespeare)
A PUB CRAWL FROM FOLKLORE INTO FANTASY The black-box stage on the sixth floor of Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Navy Pier complex is now a Scottish pub. In these still-dark confines beneath the café lights, a sweet but scary story gets recounted among the tavern tables, on top of chairs, and’”representing hell’”all over Oriental carpets at…
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Chicago Theater Review: GEOGRAPHY OF A HORSE DREAMER (Mary-Arrchie)
“SINCERE EFFORT” BY A NOSE IN THE FIFTH Sam Shepard’s Geography of a Horse Dreamer offers the lyric combination of the rough and ridiculous we expect of Shepard, with eponymous touches of surrealism. The first moments show a man trapped in a bed while projected hooves gallop on the wall behind him, sepia snippets of…
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Bay Area Theater Review: HAMLET (California Shakespeare)
TRAGEDY FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY If you have ever wanted to introduce teenagers to Hamlet, the production directed by Leisl Tommy at California Shakespeare is the one to take them to. Staged on a decrepit waterless swimming pool, as if to suggest a decaying family mansion, Ms. Tommy wisely turns the most famous play in…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: THROUGH THE YELLOW HOUR (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre)
CHILLING BUT MADDENING We are bunkered down in a ratty East Village apartment: blood stains smeared across the walls and newspapers plastered over the windows so the sunlight seeps in with a sickly glow. Loose electric wires poke down from the punctured ceiling, and a woman lies face down, sprawled on the living room floor beside…
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Theater Review: THE OTHER PLACE (Magic Theatre in San Francisco)
THE PUZZLE BOX OF THE SOUL Critics should avoid discussing plot in their reviews, but playwright Sharr White has unintentionally placed a challenge before me: Because the play is a labyrinthine unraveling from the start, divulging any but the slightest bit of plot may irrevocably alter your experience. What I can tell you is that…
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Los Angeles Concert Feature: AN EVENING WITH DAVID BYRNE & ST. VINCENT (Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa)
BYRNE THIS Grammy ®, Oscar ® and Golden Globe winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honoree David Byrne along with St. Vincent make their Segerstrom Center debuts in An Evening with David Byrne & St. Vincent on October 12 at 8 p.m. in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. Their concert follows the release…
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Chicago Theater Review: EQUIVOCATION (Victory Gardens)
NOTHING EQUIVOCAL ABOUT IT In Bill Cain’s entertaining, stimulating Equivocation, William Shakespeare (spelled Shagspeare in the play) doesn’t radiate awe-inspiring genius. Instead, he’s a regular guy with a considerable talent for writing commercial plays for his acting company, but he faces a problem that may endanger his career, if not his life. Cain’s play deals…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: ORESTES 3.0: INFERNO (City Garage in Santa Monica)
GODS AND MONSTERS Oedipus gets all the attention, what with his Freudian mixture of patricide and mommy love, but an arguably much more influential character in the Greek pantheon is the deeply confused Orestes. He didn’t fuck his mother Clytemnestra; he killed her’”and his act of (perhaps) justifiable homicide is woven into countless stories by…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: A KIND OF LOVE STORY (Sacred Fools)
THE LONG MEET CUTE If you’re inclined to think in terms of film noir, you could very easily give playwright Jenelle Riley’s quite charming romantic comedy the subtitle “The Long Meet Cute”: Her play, A Kind of Love Story, is a love affair that truly takes its time in igniting; the central couple who’s destined…
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Chicago Theater Review: SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH (Goodman Theatre)
NEITHER WILLIAMS OR THE GOODMAN AT THEIR BEST Sweet Bird of Youth is not top drawer Tennessee Williams. The play has some of Williams’ lyricism and humor, and at least one sharply etched character, but its Southern Gothic excesses are a self-parody of the playwright’s Never-Never Land Deep South. The much anticipated Goodman revival’”largely based…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: LOVERS (The Beckett Theatre)
HOW LOVE DIES: TWO VERSIONS Brian Friel’s excellent 1968 play Lovers is actually two separate plays with similar themes and settings. Both take place in a small town in Ireland in the mid 1960’s and both deal with how the hard, petty realities of life trample love’”and the excitement, sentiment and hope that come with…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: RED DOG HOWLS (New York Theatre Workshop)
HAUNTING HOWLS Rose Afratian harbors a dark secret. This wiry old woman’s shoulders are hunched and her eyes are sunken from ninety-one years of hell on earth, living with a sin she dare not share. Still, this staunch Armenian woman endures. In Alexander Dinelaris’ Red Dog Howls, several chilling scenes and gripping performances make up…
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Chicago Theater Review: WOODY SEZ (Northlight Theatre in Skokie)
INTO THE WOODY American folksinger/composer/political activist Woody Guthrie lived during the Great Depression of the 1930’s and the turbulent wartime and postwar years of the 1940’s. In his music Guthrie became the voice of the common man and woman and child in America, especially the oppressed, the exploited, and the dispossessed. Woody Sez celebrates the man,…
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