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Los Angeles Theater Review: MAMMA MIA! (Pantages Theatre in Hollywood)
MAMMA MIA: TEN YEARS OF DIZZY, FIZZY DELIGHT The most essential elements of the Mama Mia! National tour, now in its tenth year, and visiting Los Angeles once again at the Pantages for the next two weeks, are people you have likely never heard of nor will ever see in person. It is production stage…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE WOMAN IN THE WALL (Masonic Lodge in Culver City)
“IF I AM DEAD TO LIFE, WHAT AM I ALIVE TO?” In The Woman in the Wall, Overtone Industries reinvents a tradition of medieval mystery plays in a stunning new chamber opera about a 14th century Anchoress, voluntarily confined for a life of solitary religious study. This entrancing performance takes the audience on a spiritual journey…
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Theater Review: GHOSTS (Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica)
GHOST WRITTEN Henrik Ibsen wrote at a watershed moment in theater history, at the decline of melodrama and the rise of naturalism; some of his best plays reflect a tension between these poles. Doug Kaback’s new adaptation of Ghosts shines a harsh light on the play’s least synthesized moments, since the director has cut much…
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Chicago Theater Review: FREUD’S LAST SESSION (Mercury Theater)
A FREUDIAN TRIP Freud’s Last Session at the Mercury Theater is a “what if” play. What if the Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and the English professor and author C. S. Lewis met in Freud’s study in London for a morning of conversation? What if that meeting took place in 1939 on the day World War…
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Los Angeles Concert Review: SAVION GLOVER’S BARE SOUNDZ (Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge)
CAUGHT IN A TAP Savion Glover is easily one of the best tap dancers this country has ever produced, but to the adoring throng at the beautifully sleek and modern Valley Performing Arts Center, Glover is both an institution and the rock star of the tap world (where else would you see a concert where…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: TWO GENTLEMEN OF CHICAGO (Falcon Theatre in Burbank)
COMICAL, HISTORICAL, WHIMSICAL, “POP”ICAL If you like Shakespeare: go. If you hate Shakespeare: go. If you love or loathe Peter Cetera: go. If you dislike ecstatic, adorable, hard-working mega-talents willing to entertain you by all of a thousand means at their disposal: go anyway; this show might just find your pulse. Two Gentlemen of Chicago…
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Regional Theater Review: A ROOM WITH A VIEW (The Old Globe in San Diego)
A CHARMING MUSICAL WITHOUT A VIEW Theatre lore maintains that creating a successful new musical for the stage is more difficult and trying than creating peace in the Middle East. Noticing the deficiencies is easy; fixing the flaws can lead to a nervous breakdown. Jeffrey Stock and Marc Acito teeter between enjoyably simplistic and disconcertingly…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE WHO’S TOMMY (Met Theatre in Hollywood)
THE QUESTION IS: CAN YOU SEE TOMMY? Everything is murky about the DOMA Theatre Company’s new production of The Who’s Tommy at the Met Theatre’”the performances, the sound design, the staging, the choreography, and especially the lighting. Often actors are hardly visible when they sing, and the lighting design seemingly hasn’t been created with any…
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Regional Theater Review: TORTILLA CURTAIN (Lyceum Stage in San Diego)
THE TORTILLA CURTAIN RISES TO BIG APPLAUSE A frequently-used device in plot is to create two or more distinctively different characters and see how they function once they are thrown together (Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Odd Couple), but in Tortilla Curtain, the difference is the effect they have had on each other as…
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Los Angeles Dance Review: CONNECTED (Chunky Move at Luckman Theater)
BUT ONLY BY A THREAD During Connected, the 2011 dance piece from Australian company Chunky Move at the Luckman Theater in Los Angeles last week, a strip-club cat-call was heard from the audience when the performers removed portions of their costumes. With apologies to artistic director and choreographer Gideon Obarzanek for some hinterland denizens, the…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE MANY MISTRESSES OF MARTIN LUTHER KING (Atwater Village Theatre in Atwater Village)
WHAT IS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN? While many plays purport to examine race issues, few tackle them head on. Ensemble Studio Theatre’s production of The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King, by debut playwright Andrew Dolan, certainly does. It may not say anything new about race in America, but it does discuss race issues in a…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE ILLUSION (A Noise Within in Pasadena)
COMIC EPHEMERA In Tony Kushner’s adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s 1636 comedy L’Illusion Comique, the modern playwright has abandoned the contextual trappings that make the original at all interesting, in order to write for a contemporary audience. The result, in Casey Stangl’s fleet staging, very slightly disguises shallow earnestness as light amusement. It’s fun; it’s supposed…
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Chicago Theater Review: FUCKING A (UrbanTheater)
FOR BETTER OR WORSE, IT’S A TELLTALE TITLE Suzan-Lori Parks claimed that her play Fucking A, now playing at the Urban Theater Company, was inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter. The Hawthorne work centers on a strong-willed Puritan woman named Hester who is forced to wear a scarlet letter by her community as…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE MANY MISTRESSES OF MARTIN LUTHER KING (Atwater Village Theatre in Glendale)
BLACK AND WHITE AND GOOD ALL OVER A smart play is usually a provocative play, but a provocative play is rarely smart. Many playwrights competent to stir controversy have neither the chops nor, sadly, the intention to say much of benefit except to their own notoriety; and really talented writers don’t always invest in the…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: WAITING FOR GODOT (Mark Taper Forum)
THE GODOT WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR Samuel Beckett is a great comic playwright. You don’t believe me? Then run, don’t walk, to the Mark Taper Forum and see the blissfully funny and yet profoundly melancholy revival of Waiting For Godot. You will finally see what so many productions fail to get: that Estragon and Vladimir…
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Movie Review: THE HUNGER GAMES directed by Gary Ross
THE FUTURE AS PAST The Hunger Games will sap up comparisons to science fiction – that’s what happens with stories about futuristic dystopias and freaky hovercraft – but the better comparison is to Roman or Biblical epics of the fifties. Its story – of the teenagers of 12 outlying provinces exploited for the bloodsport of…
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New York Theater Review: MY TAWNY VALENTINE (The Laurie Beechman Theater in New York)
A TAWNY STAR IS BORN Tawny Heatherton is the fictional drag persona created by David Drake, the star of My Tawny Valentine at The Laurie Beecham Theatre. As the niece of Joey Heatherton, Tawny is best known to the world as a one-hit wonder for her single, “Run, Crazy Man,” a song that was huge…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: WORKING (Lex Theatre in Hollywood)
SOMEHOW, IT KEEPS ON WORKING For those who have never seen the 1978 musical Working, the Production Company’s current revival may be somewhat of a revelation. The subtitle of Studs Terkel’s brilliant oral history of the same name – adapted for the stage by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso – is People Talk About What…
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Off-Broadway Review: RUTHERFORD & SON (Mint Theater Company)
MINT ACTING IN RUTHERFORD & SON The Mint Theater Company’s mission is to “excavate buried theatrical treasures” and bring “new vitality to neglected plays.” No small task as plays usually go out of fashion for a reason; theatrical styles change, the zeitgeist renders them irrelevant, and the avant garde becomes the norm until it becomes…
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Regional Dance Feature: FIREBIRD (American Ballet Theatre at Segerstrom in Costa Mesa)
FIREBIRD SWOOPS INTO SEGERSTROM In honor of Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts’ 25th Anniversary Season, American Ballet Theatre will present the world premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s production of Firebird, the classic 1910 Igor Stravinsky ballet, originally choreographed by Michel Fokine at the Ballets Russes in Paris. This event is not to be missed…
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