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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA? (Chance Theater in Anaheim)
ALBEE SEEING YOU IN ANAHEIM HILLS [Reviewer calls his mom:] “Hey, Mom! I just saw Edward Albee’s The Goat at The Chance Theater in Anaheim Hills. The body of work this company has produced in the last year is seminal to the small theatre scene in Los Angeles. OK, Ma, Los Angeles adjacent. “What is it about?…
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DEAR HARVEY – Lee Strasberg Center – Los Angeles (West Hollywood) Theater Review
MILK AND SYMPATHY Dear Harvey Milk: After you were assassinated in 1978 (along with San Francisco’s Mayor Moscone) the gay community responded with a peaceful candlelight march instead of a violent demonstration. It spoke to a population’s ability to deal with grief in an elegant, eloquent, and loving style – not unlike the current production…
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NIGHTMARE: SUPERSTITIONS – Off Broadway Haunted House Review
BE UNAFRAID … BE VERY UNAFRAID No, the spooky kid from Nightmare: Superstitions‘ print ad campaign isn’t part of the installation, but almost every out-of-respectable-work actor is. The latest creation from the demented mind of Timothy Haskell, the 7th in a series of haunted houses, may be AOL Cityguide’s No. 1 rated haunted attraction in…
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TAKE ME OUT by Richard Greenberg – Celebration Theatre – Los Angeles Theater Review
“ANOTHER THING I LIKE IS THE HOME-RUN TROT†It is not so much that time has been unkind to Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out but that we were perhaps too kind to it in the first place. Now, stripped of its self-importance and with enough time having elapsed since it won all its prizes and…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE LITTLE FOXES (New York Theatre Workshop)
HOW TO SEE A CLASSIC PLAY WITH FRESH EYES When I first heard that avant-garde director Ivo van Hove would be staging a production of The Little Foxes at New York Theatre Workshop, the pairing confused me. As a rather conservative person when it comes to theatrical likes and dislikes, I had a notion of…
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A CONVERSATION WITH EDITH HEAD (Tour at El Portal Theater in North Hollywood)
INSIDE EDITH’S HEAD The celebrated film costume designer Edith Head is receiving a Valentine at the El Portal. No other celebrity could wish more than what actress (and co-author with biographer Paddy Calistro) Susan Claassen has done: a spot-on, almost uncanny impersonation of a cult figure (Head won 8 Oscars for design) that has us…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (Actors Co-op)
ALTHOUGH BUMPY, MERRILY DOES INDEED ROLL ALONG Because Actors Co-op’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Merrily We Roll Along whirls along like a carnival ride, you would think the centrifugal force of Richard Israel’s staging would have actors flying from the stage. The opening number, “That Frank†has players smoothly whipping around at just the…
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THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennessee Williams – Mark Taper Forum – Los Angeles Theater Review
REMEMBERING TOM If revivals are to be the mainstay of our national theater – thereby turning our theaters into museums – then interpretative artists are going to have to find ways to guarantee that theater continues to be a living, breathing organism. One way is to rediscover the elements that define a classic and unify…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE TALE OF THE ALLERGIST’S WIFE (La Mirada)
THE TALE OF THE JOURNALIST’S STRIFE Some playwrights have all the luck: Charles Busch wrote a series of theatrical cult hits in the 1980’s, such as Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, that were concurrently a send up and homage to classic movie genres; the main reason they were so damn funny is that Mr. Busch donned…
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SECRETARIAT – with Diane Lane, John Malkovich, directed by Randall Wallace – Movie Review
A WOMAN AND HER HORSE Poor Sham. In 1973, the magnificent chocolate stallion ran the second fastest time in the history of the Kentucky Derby. His mark remains to this day. He probably had the talent to win horse racing’s Triple Crown. Instead, he has gone down as the forgotten rival to a horse whose…
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LEAP OF FAITH (Ahmanson) and THEY’RE PLAYING OUR SONG (Reprise/Freud Playhouse) – Los Angeles Musical Theater Review
PERFORMANCE POWER Question: Why revive They’re Playing Our Song? Answer: Stephanie J. Block. Question: Why create a musical like Leap of Faith? Answer: Raul Esparza. Suggestion: Why not write a good musical for Stephanie J. Block and Raul Esparza? Reason: They would send a good song soaring into the stratosphere. Question: How can you be…
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Theater Review: NEIGHBORS (Matrix Theatre)
MEET THE CROWS Neighbors is a mess, but it is the most vibrant and ground-breaking mess you are likely to encounter in any theater in Los Angeles at the moment and I apologize for being delinquent in getting this review out because it has come to my attention that Neighbors is offering all sorts of…
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Theater Review: RUINED (Geffen Playhouse in L.A.)
RUINED AND SAVED If history is really an argument without end, then Lynn Nottage, among contemporary American playwrights, is our most compassionate historian. Although I prefer Intimate Apparel for the elegance of its writing and for the freshness of its approach to discovered facts, it is easy to understand why Ruined is her breakout play….
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THE SOCIAL NETWORK – directed by David Fincher – Movie Review
PLEASE “LIKE” THIS REVIEW I know I’m supposed to get out and help push. The fight for great cinema is on, and I’m expected to throw it into neutral, hop out, and chug-chug-chug with my hands on the door. We all have to get behind The Social Network and push the crowds to every mall…
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WAITING FOR SUPERMAN – directed by Davis Guggenheim – Documentary – Film Review
WE’RE # 1 IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS THAT SUCK!!! I don’t like to pull out the phrases “important movie†and “This is the one movie you should see.†But if I had to describe a movie as important, and had to say there is one movie you should see, it’s Waiting For Superman. That’s not to…
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LET ME IN – directed by Matt Reeves – Movie Review
CONSIDER LARGELY LETTING IN, EVEN IF NOT QUITE THE RIGHT ONE Life is unfair to middle children and remakes. If Matt Reeves’ vampire coming-of-age story Let Me In had been made before the Swedish original, Tomas Alfredsson’s Let The Right One In, would we automatically think it was the better of the two?  It didn’t…
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Film Review: ENTER THE VOID (directed by Gaspar Noé)
KALEIDOSCOPIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST? For l-o-n-g minutes at a time during Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void, you, the filmgoer, are sure you’ve fallen, not down a rabbit hole, but into a kaleidoscope whose shaft is being manipulated by a madman. All you see on the screen are bright colors, pulsating lights, blankness, whiteness, geometric designs,…
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A BRIGHT NEW BOISE by Samuel D. Hunter – Off Broadway Theater Review
A NON-CRISIS OF FAITH Coming into The Wild Project you will be kindly informed that there are drinks for sale and that you are allowed to bring them into the show. You might prefer to not have any distractions for such crisp, idiosyncratic performances, and you might not be thirsty enough to want to gulp…
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NEVER LET ME GO – directed by Mark Romanek, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro – Movie Review
THE WORLD IN AN ALTERNATE HISTORY At first sight, Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go is the Harry Potter film for a modern dystopia. It nails much of what I dislike about Hogwarts Academy –  the conformity, the noble-minded authoritarianism, the obedient little drone who achieves heroism through obedience and destiny rather than sacrifice. Created…
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EASY A – with Emma Stone, directed by Will Gluck – Movie Review
OMIGOD! Â ANOTHER CLASSIC TOTALLY UPDATED! The Easy A might well be for a class in astronomy. This is supposed to be the movie in which the redhead “It” Girl Emma Stone (Superbad, Zombieland) is born as a star. If dying stars turn into black holes, sucking everything around them into eternal darkness, then movie stardom…
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