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Off-Broadway Theater Review: BLACK MILK (East 13th Street Theater)
RICE MILK Vassily Sigarev’s powerful play Black Milk takes place in a remote train station in the hinterlands of Russia, where a couple of young con artists, having just swindled the local yokels, wait for a train to take them back to the capital. While there, they encounter various denizens from the area, including an…
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Film Review: VITO (directed by Jeffrey Schwarz)
AN ACTIVIST UNLEASHES HIS POWER The new documentary Vito, premiering this week on HBO, tells the story of film historian, author and activist Vito Russo, who lived from 1946 to 1991. On the surface, Russo’s fascinating story may appear to be about gay rights, but his fiery and all-too-brief existence was bookended by the conclusion…
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Chicago Theater Review: SALT OF THE EARTH (City Lit Theatre)
SOMETIMES YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN Playwright John Godber grew up in a Yorkshire mining town before going off to college to become a writer. It gives Salt of the Earth, which follows 40 years in the life of family in a mining town, an autobiographical quality, strengthened by the fact that the sections featuring…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: TRIBES (Barrow Street Theatre)
FINDING YOUR TRIBE Theatre of Identity is a fascinating phenomenon: this genre promotes a particular people’s cultural identity and invites members of that culture and other cultures to experience that culture’s joys, problems, history, traditions, and point of view. Plays like Torch Song Trilogy, The Boys Next Door, and Yellow Face were written to shed…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: Macbeth (The Anteaus Company in North Hollywood)
ANTAEUS’ MACBETH ISN’T DREADFUL, BUT IT DIDN’T FILL ME WITH DREAD The Antaeus Company is not known for shying away from difficult material, especially when it comes to classical theatre, and their talented troupe typically breathes new life into old works with aplomb. Yet, their new double-cast production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth seemed somewhat flat, at…
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Theater Review: LA SOIRÉE (Riverfront Theater)
CAMPY BUT ARTISTIC Take a handful of world class circus acts, add a bit of cabaret and burlesque, and you have La Soirée, the entirely enjoyable show in town for two weeks at the Riverfront Theatre. The entertainment originated at the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, drew positive reviews, and took its show on the road…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: ALL YOUR HARD WORK (Lillian Theatre in Hollywood)
ALL YOUR HARD WORK NEEDS MORE HARD WORK It’s safe to say that no writer sets out to pen an unexceptional play, but despite all of his hard work, the end result falls short. Such is the case with Miles Brandman’s All Your Hard Work, presented by the Brimmer Street Theatre Company and making its…
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Chicago Theater Review: OEDIPUS EL REY (Victory Gardens Theater)
GREEK TRAGEDY IN THE ‘HOOD Luis Alfaro’s slant on the Oedipus myth is at no point more transparent than the opening of his play, when several Latinos in orange jumpsuits sit behind bars, nodding their heads as James and Bobby Purify’s lyrics blare from a prisoner’s boombox: “I’ll do funny things if you want me…
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Bay Area Theatre Review: FOR THE GREATER GOOD, OR THE LAST ELECTION (San Francisco Mime Troupe)
DRAT THAT UNAPPRECIATIVE 99% For a good marriage of politics and theatre – pure melodrama, bull’s-eye political satire, a live band and zapping social commentary all served up by amazingly versatile actors – go (with almost the same urgency as you would to vote) to the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s For the Greater Good, or…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: WHATTA YA NUTS! (June Havoc Theatre)
FUGEDDABOUDIT! To use a slightly modified quote from a certain NYU professor notorious for his directness (which was misinterpreted by many sensitive arts students as brutality), here is the review of Vincent Gogliormella’s Whatta Ya Nuts!, directed by Charles Messina, in a nutshell: “Script bad, directing bad, show bad. Next!” Except for a couple of…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: MISS LILLY GETS BONED (New Ohio Theatre)
SEX, LIES, AND ELEPHANTS There’s an elephant in the room in Miss Lilly Gets Boned and it’s not just the sexuality of the eponymous Sunday school teacher. It’s an extraordinary hulking beast made of cloth and cardboard that blinks its eyes and is articulate in more ways than one. Created by James Ortiz and operated…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: MENTAL CREATURES (Lounge Theatre 2 in Hollywood)
ALL FOR ONE Commonalities of the human experience take center stage in Mental Creatures: An Original Play With Music currently making its world premiere at the Lounge Theatre 2 in Hollywood. Written and performed by Jay Jacobson, the solo venture strives to show the sameness in all of us. Just in case the audience might…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: AS YOU LIKE IT (The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles)
“TONGUES IN TREES, BOOKS IN THE RUNNING BROOKS” In order to make me laugh, a Shakespeare comedy must be well-cast. This man’s musings on the darker territories of the heart have never been exceeded in 400 years; nobody has come up with a better picture of human frailty than Macbeth and Lear, and if you…
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Chicago Theater Review: REEFER MADNESS (Circle Theatre in Oak Park)
REEFER MADNESS IS SUCH A HIGH THAT YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE STONED TO ENJOY IT In 1936, a church group sponsored a motion picture aimed at warning young people about the dangers of marijuana. The film, called Reefer Madness, was a cheesy combination of over the top acting by Hollywood bit players and laughable…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: MONSTER (Atlantic Stage 2)
FRANKENSTEIN REVISITED Neal Bell’s play Monster dramatizes Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, keeping the basic story points of the novel intact: Victor Frankenstein (Joe Varca), a brilliant young scientist, assembles and brings to life what he hopes will be a beautiful creation, only to have it turn out a grotesque and hideous creature (John Zdrojeski in a…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: DOGFIGHT (Second Stage Theatre)
DOG OF A MUSICAL The musical theatre canon is filled with bad ideas that made very good musicals. Stories of vengeful barbers, decadence in Nazi Germany, and even wife beaters have all gone on to become gold standards. Unlike Sweeney Todd, Cabaret, and Carousel, Dogfight, which is currently on the boards at the Second Stage,…
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Chicago Theater Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (Theatre at the Center)
A SHOW WHICH PLANTS ITSELF IN YOUR MEMORY Back in 1985, Bill Pullinsi staged a satirical musical called Little Shop of Horrors at his Candlelight Dinner Playhouse in Summit that was one of the joyous entertainments of the decade. Pullinsi is now the artistic director of Theatre at the Center, which is reviving the musical…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: ON GOLDEN POND (The Glendale Centre Theatre)
AIMLESSLY ADRIFT ON GOLDEN POND After seeing the stage version of On Golden Pond, now playing at The Glendale Centre Theatre, it’s impossible not to think how much more rewarding it would have been to stay home, curl up on the couch with a big bowl of popcorn, and watch the 1981 film version starring…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: HELL: PARADISE FOUND (59E59 Theaters)
HELL WITH NO INTERMISSION Hell: Paradise Found. Genesis: And so did Seth Panitch rummage through the intellectual compost heap and picketh he out from it clumps of sour clichés and bits of rotted old jokes, and collecteth he from it pieces of spoilt ideas, which were so far past their expiration date that they no…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: PAGEANT OF THE MASTERS: THE GENIUS (Irvine Bowl in Laguna Beach)
“BEAUTY IS A FORM OF GENIUS–IS HIGHER, INDEED, THAN GENIUS, AS IT NEEDS NO EXPLANATION.” Oscar Wilde Years ago, on a neighborhood stroll with my entourage of giggly young Girl Scouts, I caught my first glimpse of the Pageant of the Masters. Lured by faint orchestral strains, we happened upon the fence that bordered the…
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