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Los Angeles Theater Review: DAMES AT SEA (Colony Theatre in Burbank)
DAMES AT SEA: NOTES ON CAMP When Dames at Sea opened in 1966 at the Caffe Cino, a small coffee house and performance space in New York City’s Greenwich Village that was at the heart of the early off-off Broadway movement, the show was a trifle’”a campy lark into the backstage musicals of early talkies,…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: GOOD PEOPLE (Geffen)
AS GOOD AS IT GETS In his extraordinary production of Good People at the Geffen, director Matt Shakman has validated the necessary ingredients of a great show: First: Storytelling. In describing the plot of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People, one might categorize this seriocomedy as a “simple play,” as did the director. Shakman also said the…
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Chicago Theater Review: WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT A PRESENTATION ABOUT THE HERERO OF NAMIBIA, FORMERLY KNOWN AS SOUTH-WEST AFRICA, FROM THE GERMAN SUDWESTAFIKA, BETWEEN THE YEARS 1884-1915 (Victory Gardens Biograph Theater in Chicago)
THE IDEA WORKS BETTER THAN THE ACTUAL PRESENTATION Jackie Sibblies Drury’s new play could have the longest title in the history of the theater: We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South-West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915. It came out of the Victory…
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Chicago Theater Review: MOTHERHOOD THE MUSICAL® (Royal George Theatre in Chicago)
MUSICAL STRIKES AN UMBILICAL CHORD Motherhood the Musical doesn’t break any new ground in taking on the joys and tribulations of motherhood, nor does the 100-minute revue deliver any surprises, but that doesn’t lessen its entertainment value. This is one clever and witty show. Granted, the maternity material is aimed at the ladies, but menfolk…
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Los Angeles Theater & Tour Review: BILLY ELLIOT (Pantages Theatre in Hollywood)
A VERY F***ING SPECIAL SHOW One of the big dramatic moments in Billy Elliot, making its Los Angeles premiere for a month-long run at the Pantages, comes late in the second act, when Billy’s first teacher is saying good-bye. “You are very fucking special,” she says, spitting the words at him. “Now piss off, before…
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Chicago Theater Review: JERSEY BOYS (Bank of America Theatre in Chicago and National Tour)
THE BOYS ARE BACK, AND BETTER THAN EVER Maybe it’s the law of averages. Put enough jukebox musicals on the American stage and one of them is bound to come up a classic. That may explain the hit status of Jersey Boys, the musical inspired by the male quartet Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons…
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Theater Interview: CULLEN R. TITMAS (starring in Billy Elliot National Tour)
THE IMPORTANCE OF A BIG BROTHER When you hear of Billy Elliot being a phenomenal world-wide success, it is almost shocking that the popular musical (music by Elton John, book and lyrics by Lee Hall) has never played Los Angeles. That all changes this week. The heart-warming story of a young boy from a coal-mining…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: IN PARIS (The Broad Stage in Santa Monica)
UNFETTERED AND ALIVE In Paris, Dmitry Krymov’s adaptation of an Ivan Bunin story, traces in words, music, and movement a few moments in the lives of two Russian émigrés (Anna Sinyakina and Mikhail Baryshnikov) after the Russian Revolution. Living static lives of alienated poverty, the young waitress and the old general meet and begin a…
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Los Angeles Theater Review and Commentary: SPRING AWAKENING (Egyptian Arena Stage in Hollywood)
AWAKENING TO THE FACT THAT IT’S A POORLY WRITTEN MUSICAL I feel sorry for the cast and crew of Over the Moon Productions (OTM). The hard-working Broadway-caliber talent in Spring Awakening on the Egyptian Arena Stage is phenomenal, (especially the standout of the night Payson Lewis in a minor role); the technical design is superior…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE BUTCHER OF BARABOO (A Red Orchid Theatre)
IT’S NOT SAFE TO GO BACK IN THE KITCHEN Along with cutting meat for a living, Valerie, the butcher in Marisa Wegrzyn’s impressive The Butcher of Baraboo, is a middle-aged woman who is the center of an over-the-top dysfunctional family that takes the audience on a funny, disturbing, sometimes harrowing ride at A Red Orchid Theater….
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Bay Area Theater Review: OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE (Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley)
A GRIPPING PLUNGE INTO THE DARK SIDE Watching Marin Theatre Company’s Othello, I wondered if William Shakespeare was determined – with teeth-gritted ferocity – to make the audience squirm with the effort of holding back shouts of warning and outrage. While Elizabethan audiences were uncensored, presumably barking back to the stage at any of the…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE BUNGLER (A Noise Within in Pasadena)
YOUR OLD-AGE HOME FOR THE CLASSICS Julia Rodriguez-Elliott’s production of Moliere’s The Bungler reminds me of nothing so much as the last two shows I’ve seen at A Noise Within this season. It’s not bad. It respects (not to say reveres, puts on a pedastal, suffocates with solicitude) its text, and presents it in an…
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Broadway Review: END OF THE RAINBOW (Belasco Theatre)
A TRIUMPHANT TRAINWRECK If you’ve never applauded a trainwreck, be prepared to do so when you see Peter Quilter’s End of the Rainbow. I am not talking about the gossip-driven, hardly revelatory play about Judy Garland’s last days; I am talking about Tracie Bennett’s devastating portrait of a Ritalin-addled, vodka-soaked, emotionally greedy and equally needy,…
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Los Angeles Dance Feature: BALLET DU GRAND THÉí‚TRE DE GENÈVE (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion)
WELCOME TO THE CITY OF ANKLES At the age of 34, dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied is poised to become a household name; an extraordinary feat considering that the best-known figures in dance are those trailblazers who came to emblemize originality and invention in ballet and on Broadway long ago – names such as Cunningham,…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: LOST IN YONKERS (The Beckett Theatre/Theatre Row)
SIMON’S LOST IS FOUND The disappointing turnout for The Neil Simon Plays on Broadway in 2009 suggested that Neil Simon’s style of dysfunctional family comedy, a mainstay of The Great White Way, was suddenly passé. Brighton Beach Memoirs barely drew an audience, closing within two months, and the planned companion production of Broadway Bound never…
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Theater Review: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (Theatre Banshee in Burbank)
MUCH ADO TO KNOW ITSELF Sean Branney has been as lauded as a Los Angeles theater director can be, and Theatre Banshee has done some great work recently, so it’s disappointing to report that their new Merchant of Venice is, like Portia’s dowry boxes, a hash of gold, silver and lead. In this story, the…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: 4000 MILES (Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater)
MILES OF TALENT AT LINCOLN CENTER As a reviewer, I don’t like to pander in hyperbole, but since this year has been such a second-rate season in New York, I think it’s safe to say that 4000 Miles will be remembered as one of the best shows of the season. Upon its opening, fortunately, Amy…
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Upcoming Regional Theater: THE PRIDE (Diversionary Theatre in San Diego)
WHAT DEFINES PRIDE? How much of our identity is defined by the era in which we live? How does the constraint or freedom of a particular time mold who we are? Alexi Kaye Campbell’s The Pride, which opens this week at San Diego’s Diversionary Theatre, examines the lives of gay men in two separate stories…
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Chicago Theater Review: CHESAPEAKE (Remy Bumppo at the Greenhouse Theater)
THE PLAY’S ACTING’S THE THING Plenty of negatives can be directed toward Lee Blessing’s Chesapeake, which suffers from personality disorder: Is it a satire? A comedy? A fantasy? Does it even know, or care? Fortunately, these critical reservations are mostly disarmed by Greg Matthew Anderson’s brilliant performance. This is a good thing because Mr. Anderson…
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Los Angeles Concert Review: MUSE/IQUE, UNCORKED: EBONY MEETS IVORY (Pasadena Civic Auditorium)
JACKPOT Attending a huge array of theater and concerts is akin to a slot machine: the entertainment equivalent to three cherries does exist out there, but a huge amount of time, money and effort can be spent with little guarantee of a return on your investment – the amount of blanks and lemons out there…
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