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San Francisco Cabaret Preview: TAPS, TUNES AND TALL TALES (Tommy Tune at the Fairmont)
NINE TIME TONY AWARD WINNER TOMMY TUNE RETURNS TO THE VENETIAN ROOM 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 50 dancing girls and a sound stage,…
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Chicago Theater Review: TALES OF THE TWINKLING TWILIGHT (Raven Theatre)
TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE PLAY Developed by Raven Theatre’s Workshop Series, these ten hit-and-run “playlettes” by John Weagly take only 52 minutes to rearrange reality into quirky juxtapositions and odd angles. Everything seems immediately familiar, then instantly not: An apparently innocuous wolfman refuses to be called a werewolf as he suffers a stomach ache from the…
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San Francisco Theater Preview: CARMELINA (42nd Street Moon)
THAT’S AMORE I hope San Franciscans actually know how advantaged they are to have a company like 42nd Street Moon, which presents fully staged productions of rarely-seen musicals. While I am grateful for Musical Theatre Guild’s concert-style, one-time only productions in Los Angeles, rare is the theater company willing to dust off an old American…
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Chicago Dance Review: MOULIN ROUGE – THE BALLET (Royal Winnipeg Ballet)
THE FRAMEWORK IS A BIT ODD, BUT THE MOVEMENT IS GLORIOUS Not to be confused with the frenetic film starring Nicole Kidman or the older Oscar winner with Jose Ferrer as Toulouse Lautrec, this 2009 confection by Jorden Morris celebrates the seedy side of “la belle époque” as exposed by the still-scary underworld of Montmartre….
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Los Angeles Theater Review: IN THE RED AND BROWN WATER (Fountain Theatre)
RED AND BROWN IS THEATRICAL GOLD Los Angeles is usually the last major theater city in the states to see productions of playwrights whose works have received praise in their world premieres, either in New York or at a regional house. It often takes years for exhilarating plays to arrive in what is the busiest theater city…
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Los Angeles Theater Feature: DEATH OF A SALESGIRL (Bootleg)
ATTENTION MUST BE PAID Bootleg Theater continues its run of the world premiere of Death of a Salesgirl, an absurdist tragicomedy with integrated media, about one woman’s struggle to free herself from her past. Written by Patricia Scanlon, and starring Scanlon and Paul Dillon, Death of a Salesgirl is a dark and humorous parable of a salesgirl breaking…
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Chicago Theater Review: MUSIC FROM A SPARKLING PLANET (Eclectic Theatre Company)
HERE. THEN. NOW. WHEN? WHAT? WHY? Which 1970’s TV show had the nicest Nazi’s’”was it Wonder Woman or Hogan’s Heroes? Which cartoon character is stoned most of the time’”was it Shaggy from Scooby Doo? Why did the Howells pack so many clothes when they were only going on a three hour tour? As three grown…
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San Francisco Cabaret Review: MARY WILSON (Fairmont Venetian Room)
THE STUFF THAT DREAMGIRLS ARE MADE OF Bay Area Cabaret launched its 2012-13 season this week with a headliner sure to pull in baby-boomers by the busload: Mary Wilson, one of the three women (along with Florence Ballard and Diana Ross) who would form the legendary 60s girl group, The Supremes. The setting is the…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: 42nd STREET (Carpenter Performing Arts Center)
FLEET FEET, HOLLOW HEART When notes jostled in and out of the written score during the overture of Musical Theatre West’s 42nd Street, it portended a production that doesn’t have all the ingredients in place for a fully satisfying experience. The opening, that has the curtain raise just a bit to let us meet a…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: WILD WITH HAPPY (The Public Theater)
FORGET YOUR TROUBLES. COME ON, GET HAPPY. When the lights go up on Wild With Happy, we see Colman Domingo, in cool shades and wearing his best Paris-Is-Burning attitude, speak his opening line; and it is so hilarious one can’t help but wonder if he can ever top it. But what follows assures us that…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: NEUTRAL HERO (The Kitchen)
MAXWELL COUNTRY: WHERE HEROES ROAM There is only one Richard Maxwell and, in his extraordinarily textured Neutral Hero, he has gone back to his roots. For those of us who have longed for the early days of his short but tantalizing pieces – with their seemingly non-professional actors, whose affectless recitations, never driven by emotions,…
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Chicago Theater Review: CHICAGO’S WEIRD, GRANDMA (The Neo-Futurarium)
MONKEY BUSINESS Barrel of Monkeys has spent more than 10 years teaching writing workshops at Chicago schools, but they are best known for turning the creative writing from elementary school kids into songs, sketches, and dance numbers which are performed at their weekly show, That’s Weird, Grandma. Now they’re letting an impressive list of local…
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Documentary Film Review: TERRA BLIGHT (directed by Isaac Brown)
SHARP ECO-ETHIC SMACKDOWN From start to finish Isaac Brown’s Terra Blight is a fantastic, formidable exposé of the intensifying environmental damage caused by the technological revolution of the late 20th century. Effectively juxtaposing American excess with the poverty of the third world developing countries’”in whose backyards our electronic waste is unceremoniously dumped’”the film makes a…
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Documentary Film Review: A LIAR’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY: THE UNTRUE STORY OF MONTY PYTHON’S GRAHAM CHAPMAN IN 3D (directed by Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson, and Ben Timlett)
LIFE OF GRAHAM IS NOT A DOCUMENTARY; NOR IS IT A GOOD FILM The appropriately but un-succinctly titled A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman in 3D (or any D for that matter) is dead on arrival. Its inventive approach to employ seventeen distinctive animation styles sounds promising but soon grows…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Zombie Joe’s Underground)
LESS ADO IS STILL MUCH ADO Shakespeare’s plays tend to be longer than those of contemporary playwrights, typically running 120-150 minutes. This leads many theatre directors to wonder about the feasibility of performing Shakespeare, since contemporary theatre audiences seem to have increasingly short attention spans – perhaps 70-90 minutes. A typical solution is that of…
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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: ICH, KÜRBISGEIST (The Chocolate Factory)
NOT SURE WHAT IT IS BUT I LIKE IT Staged in the basement of The Chocolate Factory, with exposed pipes, beams and support columns, the drawbacks of Sibyl Kempson’s wonderfully inventive new show Ich, Kí¼rbisgeist are, ironically, also its charms. Or is it vice versa? The invented language the characters speak – English with Scandinavian…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE RIVALS (The Actors’ Gang)
THE SHTICK MAY DETRACT FROM THE PLAY, BUT JUST TRY TO RIVAL THE ACTORS’ GANG The Rivals (1775), Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s wonderful Comedy of Manners, is a play about pretension; everyone in the work is pretending to be better in station or morality than they actually are’”from a military officer who mimics being a sexy…
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Stage and Cinema Interview: ERIC ROSS (Theremin Virtuoso)
ERIC ROSS BRINGS HIS UNIQUE TALENTS TO L.A. WITH ULTIMEDIA THEREMIN AT REDCAT You may not know the Theremin by name but if you have ever seen a horror film or listened to the Beach Boys Good Vibrations you have undoubtedly been wowed by its unusual and often eerie and other-worldly sound. It is without…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: BUILD (Geffen Playhouse)
AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF SILICON VALLEY Build hasn’t started yet, but the minute you walk into the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at the Geffen Playhouse you feel drawn into another world by Sibyl Wickersheimer’s beautifully conceived and executed set. You’re in the middle of what looks like a mid-century Cliff May Rancho gone…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE MADNESS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE: A LOVE STORY (First Folio in Oak Brook)
THE MADNESS OF SITE-SPECIFIC THEATER Back in 2010, First Folio presented David Rice’s site-specific theater piece, The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story. If any show should be heaped with awards for concept of a production – this is it. But in this year’s restaging, director Michael Goldberg proves he knows how to…
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