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Film Review: BRAVE (Disney/Pixar)
ARCHER GLAD ABOUT THE REDHEAD HEROINE? If you were a Scottish princess, wouldn’t using a spell to turn your mother the queen into a bear be considered an act of insurrection? It’s hard to imagine that in real life Merida – the red-headstrong princess in Disney Pixar’s Brave – would avoid the tower for very…
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Chicago Theater Review: SOUTH OF SETTLING (Steppenwolf’s Garage Theatre)
SOUTH OF SETTLING PROVIDES AN INTIMATE LOOK AT FAMILY LIFE The best part of the Emmy-winning television series Friday Night Lights isn’t the football drama, but the amazing chemistry between the actors that play the power couple of Coach Eric and Tami Taylor as they navigate life in small town Texas. Set in neighboring Louisiana,…
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Theatre Review: CIRQUE SHANGHAI: YEAR OF THE DRAGON (Navy Pier Pepsi Skyline Stage)
SHANGHAIED It takes a rare courage to brave Chicago’s Navy Pier during the summer. A combination of lines and advertisements threaten to ensnare you and your wallet with just a simple misstep. And amongst all this, Chicagoans like myself will be confronted with the Kafka-esque fear of feeling like one of them’”by “them,” I of…
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Theater Review: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET (National Tour)
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL (HIS)TORY People all over the world never seem to tire of Elvis Presley, even if that means watching mediocre impersonators like the “Thai Elvis” at Palm’s Thai restaurant in Hollywood. For an incredibly convincing impression of Elvis, including a one-of-a-kind ensemble performance, simply walk down Hollywood Boulevard to the Pantages Theatre and…
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Tour Review: DRALION (Cirque du Soleil)
TO SEASONED VIEWERS, THE FACE OF CIRQUE DU SOLEIL COULD USE A LIFT The Cirque du Soleil production of Dralion should be the most fun for audiences unfamiliar with the Cirque’s unique blend of spectacle and variety acts. For veteran observers, the law of diminishing returns may be setting in. During the late 1980’s and…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: LOST MOON RADIO EPISODE 12: NIGHT (Hollywood Fringe Festival)
THE FRIEND IN THE DARK Did you ever drive alone across a big, flat stretch of country at night? You and your headlights and the asphalt spinning beneath like a long speckled treadmill – in a certain state of mind it’s easy to see the world as an Earth-sized ball rolling under your wheels. Maybe…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: LOLPERA (Hudson Theatre/Hollywood Fringe Festival)
FINDING CHEEZBURGER AT THE THEATER In a not-too-distant dystopian future in which lolcats are humans’ only form of communication, the epic LOLPERA – a lolcat pop opera – links our memes into a new religion for the Internet age. Ellen Warkentine and Andrew Pedroza’s inspired new work manages to provoke, disturb, and endlessly entertain. The LOLs echo…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM (Rogue Machine Theatre)
THE GIFT OF SPEECH There is no possibility of love or happiness in Enda Walsh’s play The New Electric Ballroom, produced by Rogue Machine, winner of 2010 and 2011 Ovation and L.A. Drama Critics Circle awards. Walsh won a Tony for the book of Once just days before this show opened, and he is widely…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE SAVANNAH DISPUTATION (The Colony Theatre in Burbank)
A MISSIONARY’S POSITION At rise: A critic is writing when the doorbell rings. The critic opens the door and reveals Savannah, a perky, Southern, cheerleader-type with pamphlets in her hand. Critic: Yes? Savannah: Hey, y’all! I’m here to spread the news about The Savannah Disputation at the Colony Theatre. It’s kind of like a cross…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE LIGHTS ARE OFF (Underground Theatre/Hollywood Fringe Festival)
A WELCOME MATT In Matt Soson’s new dark comedy The Lights Are Off, a college dorm room becomes a hotbed of sex, violence, drug dealing, and explorations of identity. The play centers on roommates grappling with competing moral codes. Bad boy Burnt, played by a gripping Mikey Hawley, battles with his uptight Christian roommate Randy,…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE GLASS MENAGERIE(Steppenwolf’s Garage Theatre)
A FRAGILE PRODUCTION STILL RESONATES Stepping from the bustling, sunny streets of Lincoln Park into Steppenwolf’s Garage Theatre feels like traveling back almost a century into the sepia-toned vision of disillusionment and despair that marked the Depression era. The dark, claustrophobic space is perfectly suited for The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams’ portrait of a family…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: THIS IS FICTION (Cherry Lane Studio Theater)
THIS IS LIFETIME TV AS THEATER In Megan Hart’s first full-length play This is Fiction, Amy (Aubyn Philanbaum) is on the verge of signing the contract to publish her first book when she panics and runs out of her publisher’s office. After a brief encounter with likable young school teacher Ed (Bernardo Cubría), she rushes…
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Chicago Theater Review: EASTLAND: A NEW MUSICAL (Lookingglass Theatre)
LITTLE-KNOWN CHICAGO DISASTER BECOMES TOWERING MUSICAL Eastland: A New Musical is the Lookingglass Theatre’s stunning meditation on one of the most terrible disasters in Chicago history: On the morning of July 25, 1915, an excursion boat overloaded with 2,500 people tipped over while docked along the Chicago River in downtown Chicago. The death toll was…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: UNCLE VANYA (Soho Rep)
THE VANYA EXPERIMENT The wunderkinds of American theater, Annie Baker and Sam Gold, ages 31 and 34 respectively, follow up their earlier collaborations, among them Ms. Baker’s remarkably successful Circle Mirror Transformation, with another innovative production, this time of Chekhov’s classic Uncle Vanya (adapted by Ms. Baker, with Mr. Gold directing). The goal of Ms….
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Regional Theater Review: COMING ATTRACTIONS (Moxie Theatre in San Diego)
CAMPY LAUGHS FROM BROAD CHARACTERS Playwright Zsa Zsa Gershick is best known for her GLAAD and NAACP award-winning play Bluebonnet Court, a drama with humorous moments. With her latest world-premiere at Moxie Theatre, Coming Attractions, she flips the intention, giving us instead a wit-filled comedy with touching moments. Though all-but-one of the characters are fiction,…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: LANGUAGE ROOMS (Los Angeles Theatre Center)
ATTEND THIS PLAY Go see Language Rooms now. I bought a ticket with no intention of a review, but Yussef El Guindi is far and away one of the most exciting new playwrights I have heard in years. The story takes place in an unnamed interrogation facility at an undisclosed location, and translator and interrogator…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: SHENANDOAH (Alex Theatre and Sherr Forum)
A MUSICAL DIVIDED CAN STILL STAND How I adore Musical Theatre Guild, which is presenting a full-out, highly professional concert staging of the 1975 musical Shenandoah. MTG offers the chance to see rarely-produced musicals with such expertise that the viewer will forget there are even scripts in hand. Accompanied by marvelous musicians, the fully-costumed, lit,…
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Chicago Theater Review: DANCING QUEEN (Riverfront Theater in Chicago)
ABBA-DABBA-DO Delivered by an exuberant and attractive cast of young singers and dancers, Dancing Queen is an all-singing-all-dancing, high-energy nostalgia show that tries to churn its audience with happy memories of the songs of ABBA and other disco flag-wavers of the 1970’s. Even with no story and no dialogue, the hits, as they say, just…
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Chicago Theater Review: ANGER/FLY (Trap Door)
A TRIUMPHANT FLY TO BUZZ ABOUT I won’t try to tell you the plot of Anger/Fly, other than that a fly lands in soup and the world ends. In Theatre of the Absurd, plot is rarely the point – and even if it is, it’s nearly unintelligible. The setting and the characters, too, are lost….
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: STOREFRONT CHURCH (Linda Gross Theater)
DIME STORE PROPAGANDA One of the problems with watching a play that has an agenda, political or otherwise, is the difficulty of enjoying with a good conscience even those parts that work; knowing the playwright’s intentions to be dishonest (in that he’s serving up propaganda as art), one feels foolish being affected emotionally, as though…
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