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Theater Review: CASCABEL (Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago)
IF FOOD BE THE MUSIC OF LOVE, EAT ON The Lookingglass production of Cascabel is the toughest ticket in Chicago this side of The Book of Mormon. The hook of the show is the menu prepared by celebrity chef Rick Bayless, who operates the renowned Frontera Grill among other high end eating establishments in Chicago….
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Theater Review: FELA! (National Tour at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago)
ONE EXCLAMATION POINT IN THE TITLE IS NOT ENOUGH Audience enjoyment of Fela! at the Oriental Theatre will be in direct proportion to the viewer’s capacity to absorb more than two hours of non-stop high-energy music and dance. For some (probably most) patrons, the musical will be a continuous high of propulsive music and dancing….
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Broadway Theater Review: NEWSIES (Nederlander)
GOOD NEWSIES, BAD NEWSIES A few months ago, the New York theatre community was all abuzz with the announcement that the Paper Mill Playhouse production of Newsies was transferring to Broadway for a limited run. Cynical insiders were convinced the move was solely for the benefit of Disney’s legal team who could finally control all…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE SEAGULL (Antaeus Theatre Company in North Hollywood)
MEMORIES OF SEAGULLS PAST If you have never seen The Seagull – though I can’t imagine a seasoned theatergoer who hasn’t, can you? – you just might possibly get an inkling of what Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece should be in the Antaeus Company’s otherwise listless and tone-deaf production, which stubbornly refuses to illuminate the quirkiness of human…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: 1969: A FANTASTICAL ODYSSEY THROUGH THE AMERICAN MINDSCAPE (Theatre/Theater in Los Angeles)
ONE VERY, VERY SMALL STEP FOR DAMON CHUA Tony Gatto gets an A for effort, having mounted a colorful if unnecessarily literal production of a Damon Chua script that defies dramaturgy and good sense even as it embraces bad and even offensive conventions. 1969, billed as “a fantastical odyssey through the American mindscape,” feels more…
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Los Angeles Concert Feature: BACH’S ST. JOHN PASSION – Los Angeles Master Chorale (Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles)
PASSION GUARANTEED Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) wrote the St. John Passion for the Good Friday Service in Leipzig, Germany in 1724, just 3 months into his new job as “Cantor” of Leipzig. The passion, a form which traces its origins to the 4th Century AD, is the story of the trial, torture, crucifixion and death…
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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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