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  • Bay Area Theater Review: BODY AWARENESS (Aurora Theatre in Berkeley)

    By Tony Frankel | February 8, 2012
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    PLAYWRIGHT AWARENESS With three produced plays under her belt, Annie Baker is quickly becoming THE playwright to watch in the American Theatrical landscape. Her first play, Body Awareness (originally staged Off-Broadway by the Atlantic Theater Company in 2008), is currently receiving a marvelous rendering at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, and has been rightfully praised…

  • San Diego Theater Review: THE RECOMMENDATION (The Old Globe)

    By Tony Frankel | February 8, 2012
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    WHEN RECOMMENDATIONS DON’T TURN OUT AS HOPED FOR Aaron Feldman, the charismatic, bright, and privileged protagonist of Jonathan Caren’s promising but highly unwieldy new play The Recommendation, reminds me of an old college chum. My friend wasn’t just privileged, he was over-privileged. While I worked three jobs to support myself through college, his parents kept…

  • Off Broadway Theater Review: RUSSIAN TRANSPORT (The New Group)

    By Victoria Linchong | February 8, 2012
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    ALL IN ZI FAMILY In Russian Transport, comedienne Janeane Garofalo expands her range by playing a wisecracking Russian-Jewish matriarch whose domineering attitude toward her daughter conceals a family secret.   The able cast is solidly directed by Scott Elliott in this slice-of-life coming-of-age story, but ultimately, by failing to convey the external pressures and dangers that…

  • Chicago Theater Review: AMERICAN IDIOT (Oriental Theatre)

    By Dan Zeff | February 8, 2012
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    IDIOT IS AS IDIOT DOES Inspired by a 2004 rock album by the American punk rock band Green Day, American Idiot has received its share of positive reviews since its premiere in Berkeley, California in 2009 and subsequent extended run on Broadway. The rock musical has also received its share of shrugs, especially from patrons…

  • Chicago Theater Review: DISGRACED (American Theater Company)

    By Dan Zeff | February 6, 2012
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    IS THERE A RECONCILIATION IN SIGHT? Every dedicated theatergoer should attend both Race at the Goodman Theatre, and Disgraced – which just opened at the American Theater Company, even though both shows will evoke a pretty bleak vision of culture wars in the United States. Both dramas see the gulf as virtually irreconcilable, largely through…

  • Chicago Theater Review: BACHELORETTE (Profiles)

    By Dan Zeff | February 4, 2012
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    WOMEN BEHAVING BADLY Attend the Profiles Theatre production of Leslye Headland’s Bachelorette and meet Gena, Katie, and Regan – three foul-mouthed, pot smoking, cocaine sniffing, pill popping young ladies that the audience can accept as funny, pathetic, repulsive, or tragic. The maidens spend about 70 minutes of stage time doing their drugs, stabbing every back…

  • Chicago Theater Review: TIME STANDS STILL (Steppenwolf)

    By Dan Zeff | February 4, 2012
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    PHOTO REALISM Time Stands Still has only four characters and a single set, but it covers an immense amount of dramatic ground, exploring personal matters of love and commitment while addressing larger public issues connected to our attitudes toward war and violence. The play can be seen in an impeccably acted and directed production at…

  • San Diego Theater Review: A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE (Cygnet Theatre)

    By Tony Frankel | February 4, 2012
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    THE SHOW ABOUT THE HAND THAT GIVES YOU THE FINGER I get a thrill when I think of the tourists who are milling about Old Town in San Diego. Exhausted from tchotchke shopping and sugary treats, they decide to take in a play at the incredibly lovely Cygnet Theatre. Most of these unsuspecting travelers have…

  • Regional Theater Review: DIVIDING THE ESTATE (Old Globe Theatre in San Diego)

    By Tony Frankel | February 4, 2012
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    THE FEATS OF THE FOOTES America is preoccupied with an unstable economy, tax increases, oil profiteering, cash deficiencies, and the plummeting worth of real estate. Yet history does indeed repeat itself, for these were the same issues facing Americans in the Reagan years, and Dividing the Estate, which takes place in 1987 Texas, will reverberate…

  • Chicago Theater Review: LEGALLY BLONDE (The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire)

    By Dan Zeff | February 4, 2012
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    THE SILLY BLONDE MUSICAL THAT ACTUALLY WORKS Local musical productions will have problems hiring skilled and energetic young performers for the next couple of months. The Chicagoland talent pool of youthful men and women is being monopolized by the presentation of a deliciously silly musical comedy at the Marriott Theatre. Legally Blonde originated as a…

  • Regional Theater Review: LONESOME TRAVELER (Laguna Playhouse in Orange County)

    By Tony Frankel | February 4, 2012
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    EXCELLENCE VS. HOKUM With Lonesome Traveler, a compendium of the golden years of American folk music, writer/director James O’Neil has developed a long-winded and incoherent revue that is more appropriate for a pledge drive on PBS than a stage. Almost 50 songs are beautifully warbled (at least 36 in their entirety!) by a multi-talented, incomparable…

  • San Francisco Theater Review: BECKY SHAW (San Francisco Playhouse)

    By Stacy Trevenon | February 2, 2012
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    BECKY SHAW WON’T LET YOU FORGET HER; THAT’S A PROMISE AND A THREAT I’m pleased to report that Becky Shaw is not easy to sit through. Five well-chiseled characters (that you pray you will never encounter) deliver a tsunami of shocking revelations (that you hope you will never experience) in a play that will have…

  • Los Angeles Theater Reviews: CLYBOURNE PARK (Mark Taper Forum) A RAISIN IN THE SUN (Kirk Douglas)

    By Harvey Perr | February 1, 2012
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    THE CLYBOURNE CONNECTION There are two reasons to revive a play. One: to see if the play has retained its power over the years. And two: to look at the play afresh, with eyes that see now what we may not have seen when the play in question was first produced. The beauty of Phylicia…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: FRUIT FLY (Celebration)

    By Tony Frankel | January 31, 2012
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    HERE COMES MR. JORDAN Have you ever been to a sultry party that has the oppressive feel of a languid, humid day in the Deep South, only to have the energy shift dramatically when a raconteur blows in like a refreshing breeze off the Gulf Coast? Usually, it is someone who can recount their adventures…

  • Chicago Theater Review: BLACK PEARL SINGS! (Northlight Theatre in Skokie)

    By Dan Zeff | January 31, 2012
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    WHOSE ETHNIC HERITAGE IS IT, ANYWAY? Black Pearl Sings! is a two-hander that explores the odd couple relationship between a black woman in prison for murder and a white female academic in Texas during the depths of the Great Depression. The play touches on lots of chewy issues, like racism, sexism, and, most provocatively, what…

  • Theater Review: THE FEAST: AN INTIMATE TEMPEST (Chicago Shakespeare)

    By Dan Zeff | January 30, 2012
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    A FEAST FOR THE SENSES (LEAVE YOUR MIND BEHIND) Chicago’s Redmoon Company is famous for its work in puppet theater. The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is the preeminent classical theater in the region. So when the two companies combine on an adaptation of Shakespeare’s late romance The Tempest, the prospects are enticing for a special evening…

  • Chicago Theater Review: RACE (Goodman Theatre)

    By Dan Zeff | January 30, 2012
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    MAMET CONFRONTS RACISM David Mamet’s Race looks at the racial situation in this country and sees an unbridgeable chasm between blacks and whites in our society. It’s a bleak vision, fortunately delivered with scintillating dramatic tension and some very funny dialogue.   Indeed, audiences will spend much of the evening laughing at what’s happening onstage at…

  • Theater Review: INVISIBLE MAN (The Court Theatre)

    By Dan Zeff | January 30, 2012
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    INVISIBLE MAN IS DIFFICULT TO SEE Invisible Man is a complex, panoramic, symbolic novel that’s an unlikely candidate for adaptation to the stage. It’s a sprawling work crowded with characters and incidents and drenched in the author’s densely textured prose and his elusive view of the plight of black people in American society. That makes…

  • Chicago Theater Review: GYPSY (Drury Lane Theatre)

    By Dan Zeff | January 30, 2012
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    KLEA BLACKHURST IS QUEEN OF THIS GYPSY Gypsy is a musical theater biography of striptease performer Gypsy Rose Lee; but it’s really about Gypsy’s mother, Mama Rose, immortalized by Ethel Merman in the original 1959 production. Merman’s performance set the bar for all future performers brave enough to take on the role. Every revival of…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: RICHARD III (Sacred Fools)

    By Jason Rohrer | January 28, 2012
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    CHEATED OF FEATURE The joy of watching Shakespeare in performance largely depends on the ensemble’s ability to make sense of the language.   In this regard, Sacred Fools’ new Richard III succeeds, and before the intermission, it boasts the equally rare Shakespearean virtue of velocity.   But any staging of any play has responsibilities beyond diction and…

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