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Chicago Theater Review: THE AMERICAN PLAN (The Artistic Home)
THE ARTISTIC HOME PROVIDES GOOD DRAMA, BUT CAN’T FIX A TROUBLED PLAY Apparently in The American Plan, the name of the game is deception, but no one seems to think they’re playing. In Richard Greenberg’s drama (which, as the title suggests, unsubtly comments on the falseness of the American Dream), all of the characters are…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE REAL DRUNK HOUSEWIVES OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY (The Complex in Hollywood)
BRING ON THE BOTOX Fans of reality television, rejoice! The Real Drunk Housewives of the San Fernando Valley has just hit the stage – live and in person, sloshed and singing. While this new musical parody could use a facelift here and there, The Real Drunk Housewives is shaping up to be a fun evening’s…
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San Diego Theater Review: GOD OF CARNAGE (The Old Globe’s Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre)
COMEDIC CARNAGE SHARPLY WALKS THE LINE OF TRAGEDY Playwright Yasmina Reza has said, “My plays have always been described as comedy, but I think they’re tragedy. They are funny tragedy, but they are tragedy. Maybe it’s a new genre.” Reza isn’t kidding herself. Audience members can be spotted gasping, flinching, moaning, and covering their faces during…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST (New Ohio Theatre)
CALIFORNIA DREAMS The 2012 Ice Factory Festival closes with The Girl of the Golden West, a heartfelt musical ode to the great American myth based on David Belasco’s 1911 novel, which had previously inspired Puccini to write his most experimental opera, La Fanciulla del West. In its own way, Rady&Bloom’s production of The Girl of…
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Los Angeles Theater Commentary & Review: WEST SIDE STORY (Chance Theater in Anaheim Hills)
O.C. STORY First, scroll down to the bottom of this review; there you will find the information you need to buy your tickets to Oanh Nguyen’s magnificently re-interpreted production of West Side Story at the Chance Theater. Second, after you witness the truthfulness of its performers and the strength in its simplicity, I invite you…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE BAT (Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills)
THE BAT: A SWING AND A MISS Nowadays, more times than not, new plays are a wham-bam, down-and-dirty, in-and-out in 80 minutes “theater-lite” affair. Not that I’m complaining (I relish any chance to get to bed early), because even with their diminished running time, they are usually vapid, pointless exercises that delve no further than…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE PSYCHIC LIFE OF SAVAGES (LATC in Los Angeles)
POETRY OUT OF MOTION I was quite keen to see Amy Freed’s The Psychic Life of Savages; curious about its fictional take on Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, the dead, messy poet heroines of my angst-ridden teenaged years. I would read Plath’s ripe paean to father fixation and suicide, Lady Lazarus, over and over’”bathing in…
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Chicago Theater Review: ADRIFT (Greenhouse Theater Center)
CARRYING THE ALBATROSS Adrift takes its inspiration from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which tells the story of a sailor stricken by horrible misfortune after he shoots down an albatross, his ship left stranded on still seas. Things aren’t so bad in David Alex’s modern day play, which makes its world premiere…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: FARM BOY (Matrix Theatre)
WHO NEEDS HORSES? FARM BOY GALLOPS ALL ON ITS OWN War Horse is the theatrical juggernaut that took London by storm, crossed the pond, swept the Tony Awards and hit the road, recently completing a run at the Ahmanson Theatre. The majesty of the fantastical staging’”especially the life-sized horses created by the Handspring Puppet Company’”provided…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR (The Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena)
A GOGOL BORDELLO In adapting Nikolai Gogol’s 1836 comedy The Government Inspector (also known, in direct translation, as The Inspector General) for a modern idiom, Oded Gross has taken a work of enduring satire and made of it an instantly dated parody of 2011. The original stands outside nation, era, or political alignment as an…
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Los Angeles Theater Feature & Review: REDCAT’S NEW ORIGINAL WORKS FESTIVAL (Disney Hall)
BEST BE ON YOUR AVANT-GARDE Understanding the origins of REDCAT, the downtown center for innovative visual, performing, and media arts, will assist the uninitiated in preparation for the avant-garde 9th Annual New Original Works Festival, now playing through August 11, 2012. And if you don’t like some of what you see at the festival, knowing…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE LAST SMOKER IN AMERICA (Westside Theatre/Upstairs)
LIKE KISSING AN ASHTRAY The chirpy puppet-style musical is no longer a novelty but a genre; shows with lyric-dense, upbeat, simple-rhyme songs performed in rapid-fire succession are the 21st century’s light opera. The Last Smoker in America may have personalized the genre a bit by including the framework of a sitcom, but Bill Russell’s book reads…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE FUNKY PUNKS (La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts)
SMART FOOLERY A young-audience offshoot of the Troubadour Theater Company, the Funky Punks seem dedicated to kiboshing the notion that a clown’s function is to scare children. At the hour of comic tumbling, dance, acrobatics and puppetry I attended, the only child who cried was merely afraid of being dragged onstage. In fact, except for…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: A RING IN BROOKLYN (NoHo Arts Center in North Hollywood)
DIS HERE’S A DIFF’RENT KIND OF HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL There is something very sweet going on in Eric Dodson’s and Alan Ross Fleishman’s new musical A Ring in Brooklyn. The unusual pleasure of the unamplified human voice’”the performers use no microphones’”is coupled with the creators’ obvious affection for their characters, elevating a rather simple premise…
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Film Review: WHITE FROG (directed by Quentin Lee)
REAL FROGS MOVE AT LEAST ONCE IN NINETY MINUTES The story of a 14 year old Asperger’s patient, Nick (BooBoo Stewart), dealing with the death and posthumous coming-out of his idolized older brother Chaz (Harry Shum, Jr), White Frog is an awkward little movie that means well. Crisply shot by Yasu Tanida and sprinkled with…
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Chicago Club and Theater Review: UP Comedy Club
GOING UP Piper’s Alley has long been a destination for Chicago comedy fans, with Second City bringing in sold out crowds for nearly every performance. Now you can get even more laughs under one roof by visiting the third floor UP Comedy Club, which opened last December. The spot hosts nightly shows, plus matinee performances Saturday…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: SURF DOGS UNITE (Actors Circle Theater in West Hollywood)
IRREVERENT IN TRANSLATION In the same way that many really awful movies are actually good in the sense of being funny to laugh at (rather than laugh with), so the screenplays chosen by the Magnum Opus Players for stage use are so terrible that they make good comic theatre. And just to be absolutely clear,…
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Regional Theater Review: Man of La Mancha (Cygnet Theatre in San Diego)
A GREAT KNIGHT, BUT JUST A GOOD NIGHT When a show comes back time and again, the review question is two-fold: (1) Is it worth reviving? and (2) Does this production offer a reinterpretation such that it warrants another look (or a first time look for a new generation)? In the case of Cygnet’s Man of…
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Theater Review: STEPHEN SONDHEIM: IN CONVERSATION (Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa)
IT COULD HAVE BEEN WONDERFUL Attendees who had never seen Stephen Sondheim being interviewed in person must have been licking their chops with every juicy morsel that the legend said about himself to the packed house at Segerstrom Concert Hall–especially those who have been listening to Sondheim’s musicals for years. The great Broadway composer sat…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION (Odyssey Theatre in West L.A.)
A VERY COLD WAR BETWEEN THE SEXES I was a huge fan of Peter Lefcourt’s 1999-2001 Showtime series Beggars & Choosers. It was something of a bomb financially but a great favorite of those who work in the entertainment industry, who delighted in its dark yet fizzy take on the business of television — the…
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