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Los Angeles Theater Review: BABY DOLL (Elephant Theatre Company)
A TENNESSEE WILLIAMS CARICATURE A number of theatres in Los Angeles have marked the 100th anniversary of Tennessee Williams’ birth by staging productions of his plays. Following upon the successful runs of A House Not Meant To Stand at The Fountain Theatre and Five Beauties at the McCadden Theatre is the Elephant Theatre Company’s production…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: HOSEA NOVA: A JEALOUS AND VIOLENT MAN (Zombie Joe’s Underground)
THE BLIND LEADING THE HALF BLIND “It’s The Devils meets Marat/Sade.” someone said to me. “Yes,” I responded. “As performed by the Marx Brothers!” We were talking about the new Zombie Joe’s Underground show, Hosea Nova: A Jealous and Violent Man, Robert Riemer’s wacky baroque take on Hosea, the Biblical prophet of doom (where there’s…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE BAKER’S WIFE (Circle Theatre in Oak Park)
STILL WAITING TO SEE IF THIS DOUGH WILL EVER RISE The Baker’s Wife never made it to Broadway. The musical folded in Washington. D.C. in 1976 before reaching New York City but has since gained something of a cult status in both the United States and England. Area audiences now have the opportunity to see…
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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Reviews: KUTSUKAKE TOKIJIRO and SHE KILLS MONSTERS (The Flea)
UPSTAIRS/DOWNSTAIRS AT THE FLEA The Flea Theater is currently providing New York theater audiences an interesting illustration of the cultural gap between Asian-Americans and Asians from Asia. Not that I usually am so divisive — I generally feel that everyone has a lot more in common than they have differences — but this month, the…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE CARETAKER (Writers Theatre in Glencoe)
TAKING CARE TO CREATE EXCELLENT THEATER The plot of Harold Pinters’ The Caretaker is uncomplicated on the surface and densely complex in its subtexts; it is a melding of realism and theatre-of-the-absurd which places a thuggish and volatile young man, his brain-damaged older brother, and a scruffy old tramp together in a rubbish-strewn room. From…
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San Diego Theater Review: THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL (San Diego REP)
CORNED BEEF TRASH The Great American Trailer Park Musical has a misleading superlative. The show mirrors A Tuna Christmas and Sordid Lives, in that it takes a humorous look at the goings-on of America’s trashy lower-middle class, yet these other shows are far superior in writing and character development. The Rep’s solid production can not…
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Los Angeles Theater Reviews: AS IS, RADIANCE, and PEACE IN OUR TIME
SHORT TAKES ON CURRENT LOS ANGELES THEATER AS IT WAS: As Is, written by William M. Hoffman in 1984, when so many of our contemporaries were dying of the AIDS epidemic, still maintains its power. If it is dated at all, it is dated in good ways: it means that our so-called “gay” theater has…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: BURNING (The New Group)
BURNING BRADSHAW Post-modern theater has yet to live up to the hype. Whether deconstructing established forms or employing historical eclecticism, American playwrights writing within a post-modern sensibility struggle to justify their dogged pursuits. Coincidentally, they have yet to produce a single great American play. Thomas Bradshaw, one of the shining stars in the post-modern constellation,…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: STANDING ON CEREMONY: THE GAY WEDDING PLAYS (Minetta Lane Theatre)
THE FEEL GAY HIT OF THE SEASON If you’re pro gay marriage, come see this show. If you’re ambivalent on the topic, come see this show. And if you’re against gay marriage, come see this show and gain insight from an evening full of laughs and lessons for all. Collectively, this compilation of original one-act…
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Film Review: THE DESCENDANTS directed by Alexander Payne
PERFECT MOVIE, OR MOST PERFECT MOVIE EVER? The revered New Yorker critic Pauline Kael famously stated that great films are rarely perfect films. Do we ever wonder about the opposite? Are perfect films rarely great films? As the ultimate easy swallow, The Descendants – the latest release from Sideways writer/director Alexander Payne – has been…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: HORSEDREAMS (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)
HORSEDREAMS AND NIGHTMARES A few years ago, Dael Orlandersmith made a splash with Beauty’s Daughter and Yellowman, winning an Obie Award and being a Pulitzer Finalist. Her work was largely autobiographical and involved highly poetic language, direct address, and fearless, compassionate explorations into complicated aspects of race, gender, and class. Basically, she was writing theater…
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Off-Broadway Interview: TOM WOJTUNIK, director of IT IS DONE
TOM WOJTUNIK IS FAR FROM DONE You’re in Times Square for a night of theater. You turn down 47th Street and pass the Ethel Barrymore Theatre where An Evening With Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin is playing. Then you pass the old Biltmore Theatre, now owned and operated by Manhattan Theatre Club, where Venus In…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: A MAD PERSON’S CHRONICLE OF A MISERABLE MARRIAGE (Stage Left Studio)
WAR, BUT NO PEACE John Andert so captivates the audience in Sinan Ünel’s play A Mad Person’s Chronicle of a Miserable Marriage that you don’t want the play to end. Whether he is the deliciously mad chronicler or Sonya Tolstoy, tortured wife of Leo, or the great Tolstoy himself, he suffuses each character with the…
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Off Broadway Interview: SINAN ÜNEL – writer and director of A MAD PERSON’S CHRONICLE OF A MISERABLE MARRIAGE
THE LONG TERM RELATIONSHIPS OF SINAN ÜNEL AND LEO TOLSTOY Cheryl King’s intimate Stage Left Studio on Manhattan’s West 30th Street specializes in showcasing one-to-two-person plays. Through November 22, Sinan Ünel’s A Mad Person’s Chronicle of a Miserable Marriage joins the eclectic repertoire of solo gems. Embodying both Leo Tolstoy and his wife, Sonya, John…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE ROMANCE OF MAGNO RUBIO ([Inside] the Ford)
A FOOL-IPINO FOR LOVE Just as the “problem” of immigration continues to be debated by our politicians, so does it continue to be presented in our theaters. Earlier this year, in the springtime, Tom Jacobson’s new play The Chinese Massacre (Annotated) was presented at the Atwater Village Theatre. His complex historical drama, which provided little…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica)
AN ERROR IN COMEDY One of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, The Comedy of Errors, is also his shortest and most farcical. In fact, while scholars argue over the classification of other Bard works, there is no denying that this play belongs to the category of Comedies: the tale of two sets of separated twins is not…
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LA/National Tour Theater Review: BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL (Ahmanson Theatre)
PREPPY IS THE NEW SUBVERSIVE When the development of Bring It On: The Musical was announced, I rolled my eyes. The commercial viability of yet another mediocre movie-to-musical had lured Tony Award-winning talent from three refreshingly original musicals: In the Heights, Next to Normal, and Avenue Q. I doubted whether director/choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler, librettist Jeff…
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Broadway Reviews: RELATIVELY SPEAKING (Brooks Atkinson) and THE MOUNTAINTOP (Bernard B. Jacobs)
THE ACTING’S THE THING You may go to see Relatively Speaking in the hope of seeing three bright comedies by some of our funniest comic writers – Ethan Coen, Elaine May, Woody Allen – but what you will remember, after you’ve left the theater, is the actors: Danny Hoch in the Coen play, Marlo Thomas…
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Cabaret Review: CHITA RIVERA: MY BROADWAY (Samueli Theatre at Segerstrom Center)
QUEEN OF THE GYPSIES It’s a relief that Chita Rivera, one of the last great holdovers from the Golden Age of Broadway still performing today, told the audience in Costa Mesa that she doesn’t read notices. For while Chita the phenomenon is deservedly worthy of appreciation, Chita Rivera: My Broadway is so flat and surprisingly…
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Chicago Theater Review: ASSISTED LIVING (Profiles)
PROFILES OF A DREARY EXISTENCE The Profiles Theatre has carved out an essential niche for itself on the local Chicagoland theater scene with sexy, violent, and edgy modern dramas. Recently, playwright Deirdre O’Connor gave Profiles one of its major hits with Jailbait, about a pair of teen-aged girls who venture into the adult world of…
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