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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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Off-Broadway Theater Review: FINAL ANALYSIS (June Havoc Theatre)
HISTORICAL FIGURES FOR DUMMIES As the audience settled in and Stephen Bradbury, who plays the waiter and also serves as a partial narrator in Otho Eskin’s new play Final Analysis, came out onto the stage dressed in full tails (lovely costumes by Jenny Green) and, with a bemused yet somewhat foreboding grin, delivered the admonitions…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE VORTEX (Dead Writer’s Theater Collective at the Greenhouse Theatre Center)
DEAD WRITER’S PRODUCES DEAD THEATRE I’ll admit, I was skeptical from the start walking into the Greenhouse Theatre’s production of Noel Coward’s The Vortex, the inaugural production of the Dead Writer’s Theater Collective (DWTC). Why? The newly formed DWTC states that their plays are presented “as we interpret the authors would have intended their works…
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Chicago Theater Review: SMARTPHONES: A POCKET-SIZE FARCE (Trap Door Theatre)
IT’S ABSURD HOW AMAZING TRAP DOOR THEATRE IS… OR IS IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND? For those of you skeptical of avant-garde theatre, I’d like to kindly direct your attention over to the Trap Door Theatre. This season has been a big one for them, with a strong slew of productions that have gotten raved by…
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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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