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Film Review: LINCOLN (directed by Steven Spielberg)
DISHONET ABE Historical movies are often made as historical parallel. They comment on our time as much as their time. On some level this is the inevitable nature of history – taking from the past what is necessary to explain the present. Historical parallel clearly seems to be the intention of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, which…
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Bay Area Theater Review: THE WHITE SNAKE (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)
A DREAMY BEDTIME STORY Theater critics often speak of “universal themes” in the theater’”these are topics to which people in any place and at any time can relate. One of the main reasons that Greek literature, Aesop’s Fables, Shakespeare, and Grimm’s Fairy Tales, to name a few, retain their appeal is that people from varied backgrounds…
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San Francisco Theater Review: ANOTHER WAY HOME (Magic Theatre)
THERE HAS TO BE ANOTHER WAY When Anna Ziegler’s world premiere play Another Way Home began, it seemed that the thrust of the play would revolve around Joey (Daniel Petzold), a 17-year-old spending the summer as a Counselor-in-Training at Camp Kickapoo in Maine. When his Jewish, upper middle-class parents Philip (Mark Pinter) and Lillian (Kim…
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Theater Review: DEATH OF A SALESGIRL (Bootleg Theater)
BETTER THAN THIN MINTS FROM A GIRL SCOUT The World Premiere of Patricia Scanlon’s Death of a Salesgirl is a must-see surreal tragicomedy presented by The Bootleg Theater. Its fresh and innovative use of space coupled with its inspired use of integrated multimedia make the already powerful piece that much more immediate to today’s attention…
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San Francisco Nightclub Review: LADY RIZO (Rrazz Room)
LADY OF THE LICK She bills herself as an Entertainer, Dream Maker, Chanteuse, and Superstar, but Lady Rizo can be called so much more. With her new show, Autumn in San Francisco, the dynamic diva blew into the City by the Bay with all the subtlety of Hurricane Sandy during Autumn in New York. This…
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Los Angeles Concert Preview: RAíšL ESPARZA SINGS SONDHEIM (Valley Performing Arts Center)
BEING ALIVE IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT When the senseless Leap of Faith had its out of town tryout at the Ahmanson before its crash-and-burn on Broadway, there was only one thing which made sense: the pyrotechnic performer Raúl Esparza. This magnetic talent made evident that he could sing the listings from a phone book and make…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE BURNT PART BOYS (Theater Wit)
MINING MEMORIES Adam Guettel’s Floyd Collins remains the ultimate spelunking musical as it depicts a cave explorer entrapped by both hard rock and a media spectacle. The Burnt Part Boys, a 90-minute slice of coal by bookwriter Mariana Elder, composer Chris Miller and lyricist Nathan Tysen (originally premiered by Playwrights Horizon), is less ambitious and…
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San Francisco Theater Review: WILDER TIMES (Aurora Theatre)
FAR FROM WILD Thornton Wilder, especially as a playwright, looks to the commonality of all people to demonstrate the value in appreciating life, especially when the death of a loved one is involved. Although Wilder’s best-known work is Our Town, his many short plays contain the same theme. But staging Wilder can be tricky. In order…
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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: PORT OUT, STARBOARD HOME (La MaMa)
AFLOAT ON HIGH ASPIRATIONS Many positive things can and should be said about Sheila Callaghan’s Port Out, Starboard Home, a play about a three-day cruise at the end of which the passengers participate in a secret, transformative ritual. The play is an allegory, an indictment of thoughtless first-world consumerism, as well as materialism, superficiality, and…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE ODD COUPLE (Northlight Theatre in Skokie)
NOT IN THE CARDS Northlight audiences should cut the theater’s revival of The Odd Couple some slack. The production took a major hit when co-star George Wendt was forced to drop out of the show only a few days before the scheduled opening for medical reasons. So the production pulled Marc Grapey out of the…
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DVD Review: THE DUST BOWL (PBS Distribution)
A DISASTER WORSE THAN MOST OF US EVER KNEW In elementary school, for me, “Dust Bowl” was little more than two words that had to be memorized for tests in history classes that unfailingly failed to make history interesting. Sure, I heard the term often enough that some kind of image formed…but it was not…
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San Diego/Tour Preview: DRALION (Cirque du Soleil)
HUMANS ARE THE SPECTACLE, NOT ANIMALS Childhood memories of circus fun include ringleaders putting heads in a lion’s mouth, dancing bears, and elephants resting a paw upon a lovely lady’s head. That is, such memories exist if you are a person of a certain age. If you haven’t been to a circus type event since…
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New York Cabaret Preview: TAPS, TUNES AND TALL TALES (Tommy Tune at Feinstein’s)
FEINSTEIN’S AT LOEWS REGENCY PRESENTS THE NEW YORK SOLO DEBUT OF NINE TIME TONY AWARD-WINNING BROADWAY LEGEND TOMMY TUNE In his review of A Day in Hollywood – A Night in the Ukraine (1980), New York Times’ critic Mel Gussow called director/choreographer Tommy Tune “The toe-tapping heir to Busby Berkeley. What his predecessor did with…
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Film Review: SKYFALL (directed by Sam Mendes)
BOND TO THE PAST And as the fog rolls in across the Scottish moors, the old woman turns to the young friend she had recently ordered to his death. He grew up an orphan, now wrinkled. She asks how his parents died. There is a moment of hesitation, then a slant in his voice. “You…
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San Francisco Theater Review: BEACH BLANKET BABYLON (Club Fagazi)
THE HAT’S JUST KEEP ON COMIN’ Billed as the world’s longest running musical revue, Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon is a flamboyant, frivolous, and frothy burlesque that takes a jab at popular culture with super-talented performers as oversized caricatures, many of whom wear Babylon’s signature oversized headdresses and fabulously garish costumes. There is an ever-changing…
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Los Angeles Theater and Film Review: WRECK-IT RALPH (Directed by Rich Moore)
AN IMAGINATIVE STORY AND SPECTACULAR VISUALS MAKE UP FOR CALCULATED FAMILIARITY It’s quite an accomplishment for Disney that the multitude of elements in Wreck-It Ralph don’t collapse in on themselves. It’s fast-paced and stunning visuals abound, 190 distinct characters are introduced (some familiar from video games), Shrek-like topical references thrive, and $165 million worth of…
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Los Angeles/Regional Theater Review: HOW TO WRITE A NEW BOOK FOR THE BIBLE (South Coast Rep in Costa Mesa)
HOW TO LAUGH AND CRY AND BE UNMOVED AT THE SAME TIME Playwright Bill Cain, after discovering his mother, Mary, had six months to live, moved into the family home in Syracuse, New York. Like any good writer, Cain kept a diary during that trying time. His notes became the basis for How to Write…
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Film Review: THE COMEDY (directed by Rick Alverson)
THE JOKE’S ON WHO? As a story, The Comedy is as blunt as its title, devoting 94 unrelenting minutes of character development to a man-boy whose development and character are equally questionable. Tasked with bringing some sense of soul to the dead-eyed, over-privileged slacker Swanson, Tim Heidecker (the Tim half of Adult Swim’s Tim and…
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San Francisco Theater Preview: STRINDBERG CYCLE: THE CHAMBER PLAYS IN REP (Cutting Ball Theater)
AN AUGUST PROJECT In many ways, playwright August Strindberg’s influence in the theater has been far more significant than his public reception. While theater historians and scholars speak of Strindberg (1849-1912) with the fervency normally associated with Shakespeare, only five of his over sixty plays are produced with any kind of regularity: The Father, Miss…
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Chicago Theatre Review: SUPERIOR DONUTS (Royal George Theatre)
THERE’S A HOLE IN DONUTS’ PROMISING STORY Arthur Przybyszewski, the gray bearded and ponytailed proprietor of a donut shop in Chicago, enters his store one morning to find it vandalized. Two policemen and the whistleblowing next-door neighbor are already there, witnesses to the trash, tossed chairs, and graffiti. Arthur enters without a word, examines the…
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