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Tour Review: OVO (Cirque du Soleil)
IF THIS IS THE CIRCUS, WHERE’S MY BREAD? In 1992, Guy Laliberté gentrified the big top with Saltimbanco, offering pure spectacle at Wagnerian prices, and in the process conflating art with acrobatics. Millions of people have subsequently made the same adjustment to their definition of quality entertainment. The change may be more significant than it…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: YOSEMITE (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)
THE NATURALIST THING TO DO In the late 19th century, Naturalism emerged as a viable theatrical style in response to the artifice that had earlier been in vogue. It was almost inevitable that overly manipulated plots and histrionic acting styles would give way to something more genuine like Naturalism. Seeing 3-D sets with actual running…
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Nightclub Venue Review: FEINSTEIN’S AT THE NIKKO (Hotel Nikko, San Francisco)
IT’S A NIGHTCLUB (NOT A CABARET) [Editor’s Note: In May, 2013, a year after this article was written, this nightclub became Feinstein’s at The Nikko. This article still suits the club as it is now in many ways. The Rrazz Room still has 4 other locations. Updated info for all clubs below.] It was by…
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Film Review: JOFFREY: MAVERICKS OF AMERICAN DANCE (directed by Bob Hercules)
THE ART OF MAKING ART In economically troubled times such as these, many artistic directors are vainly attempting to figure out how their output can be remunerative. Instead of presenting a bold concept to audiences, artistic directors (and many other disciplinary artists) seem to be relying on proven methods of the past in order to…
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Theater Review: MR. RICKEY CALLS A MEETING (Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago)
DECIDING THE FATE OF BLACK MEN IN BASEBALL In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball, the first black man in modern baseball history to play in the majors. That’s a matter of record. In 1989, playwright Ed Schmidt used that seminal event in American sports and social history to write…
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Las Vegas / National Tour Theater Review: MICHAEL JACKSON THE IMMORTAL WORLD TOUR
OH, WHAT A FOOL THIS IMMORTAL BE [Editor’s Note: The tour reviewed below was a gigantic, arena-style show. A more intimate and intricate encounter with the late singer’s oeuvre took up permanent residence at Las Vegas’s Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino as Michael Jackson: ONE on June 30, 2013.] After a short run in Las Vegas, Cirque…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: OUR TOWN (The Broad Stage in Santa Monica)
THE VALUE IN SIMPLICITY The purposefully simplistic proceedings of David Cromer’s production of Our Town may seem bold and innovative to some, especially to those weaned on Broadway spectacles. Yet, the gloriously unassuming presentation now on at the Broad Stage is actually a spot-on realization of Thornton Wilder’s vision of his famous 1938 play. Indeed,…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: RED HOT PATRIOT: THE KICK-ASS WIT OF MOLLY IVINS (Geffen Playhouse)
WILL THE REAL MOLLY IVINS PLEASE STAND UP? Molly Ivins was a ballsy Texas-based reporter who became a legend in her own time by calling a spade a spade (or, more succinctly, calling George W. Bush a moron – even before he was President – and who added glorious insult to magnificent injury by saying…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: JACKIE FIVE-OH! (The Renberg Theatre at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center)
OWNING HER INNER KVETCH In Michael Wex’s treatise Born to Kvetch, he asserts that Kvetching (complaining) is not only a pastime for Jews – it’s a way of life. Kvetching can be applied indifferently to contentment or displeasure: it is a way of knowing, a means of apprehension that sees the world through cataract-colored glasses….
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Los Angeles Theater Review: O(H) (casebolt and smith)
NOT YOUR ORDINARY EVENING OF DANCE Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith’s long-term friendship shapes their every move as a duo dance company. Such a partnership between a straight woman and gay man is not unusual in the dance world. Self-conscious acknowledgement of it in a performance is. Yet fessing up to the friendship that sustains…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE (The Production Company)
BLACK COMEDY AND KITCHEN SINK DRAMA: AN IRISH STEW While the horror and suspense merely simmer in The Beauty Queen of Leenane – Martin McDonagh’s 1996 black comedy – the dark humor, bleakness, and romance positively boil over, making The Production Company’s revival a recommended trip. For 20 years, 40 year-old spinster Maureen (Ferrell Marshall)…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: TROILUS AND CRESSIDA (Porters of Hellsgate)
WARLIKE FROTTAGE The Porters of Hellsgate’s production of Shakespeare’s Trojan War essay, Troilus and Cressida, begins promisingly. A shifting tableau establishes characters and relationships during the Prologue’s welcome, telling visually a story that might be hard to follow due to its many characters, plot lines, and changes of theme. It’s too bad Charles Pasternak then…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: KISSING SID JAMES (Brits Off Broadway at 59E59)
THE SOUND OF TWO BRITS KISSING Stationary sales executive Eddie and sexy casino worker Crystal fumble through their first weekend trip together in Robert Farquhar’s Kissing Sid James. This playful Brits Off Broadway production at 59E59 offers an endearingly awkward portrait of lonely longing and misfit romance. In an uncomfortable phone conversation that opens the…
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Bay Area Theater Review: THE WILD BRIDE (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)
GO TO THE DEVIL Within the manifesto of Kneehigh – an avant-garde, world-class theater company based in Cornwall, England – is a simple but mighty statement: Kneehigh tells stories. By remaining on the fringe of theater as a business, this magnificently inventive, multi-talented, multi-cultural team of artists brings to the theater refreshing and persuasive theatrical…
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Las Vegas Theater Reviews: JERSEY BOYS (Palazzo) PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Venetian)
ONE BRINGS DOWN THE HOUSE; THE OTHER, JUST A CHANDELIER. My assignment to review “the old and the new†Las Vegas included two Broadway transplants, ones that may give insight into the future of musical theatre in Las Vegas: the highly entertaining Jersey Boys at The Palazzo and the heartless, stunning spectacle Phantom–The Las Vegas…
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THEATER IN LOS ANGELES: THE BEST OF 2011
THE SUPERBOWL OF LOS ANGELES THEATER FOR 2011 2011 ENDED NOT WITH THE PROVERBIAL WHIMPER BUT WITH A RESOUNDING BANG: Fela! was not merely the best new musical of the year, it was one of its most vivid theatrical experiences as well. Most of the credit goes to Bill T. Jones, who conceived, directed, and…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: APOLOGIES (AND OTHER GREY AREAS) (The Paper Industry)
OUR APOLOGIES FOR TELLING YOU TOO LATE Something is happening in New York theater. With their latest “ugly opera” Apologies (And Other Grey Areas), The Paper Industry explores the uncertainty of beginnings and the possibilities of the present through a compelling combination of design, music, and movement: a thrilling theatrical excavation of Schrödinger and Heisenberg’s…
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Theater Review: FELA! (National Tour kick-off at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles)
SING A SONG OF AFRICA Fela! is a scorcher. On these chilly nights in December and January, everyone (with a vested interest in the continuing power of musical theater) should retreat to the Ahmanson Theatre, where the heat is on. Warning: Do not try to put the fire out. Let the blaze burn bright. There…
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Regional Theater Review: SOME LOVERS (The Old Globe in San Diego)
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS A GOOD STORY After winning two Tony awards in 2007 for book and lyrics of Spring Awakening, Steven Sater teamed up with the one-and-only Burt Bacharach to write some pop songs. According to an L.A. Times article, the legendary composer told Sater that he dreamt they rented a theater…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: THE MYTHS WE NEED – OR – HOW TO BEGIN (Purple Rep)
ONE OF MANY GENESIS STORIES TO COME Creating a fresh twist on the Biblical tale of Adam and Eve is no small feat. Unfortunately, Larry Kunofsky’s The Myths We Need – or – How to Begin stumbles about with 1920s flare, but with little original insight into what makes us human. Kunofsky casts Adam and…
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