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Los Angeles Theater Review: MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE (The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum)
A PATCHWORK OF THE PERSONAL AND POLITICAL My Name is Rachel Corrie is a solo show comprised of a patchwork of actual e-mails and diary entries by a young female activist in Gaza who was tragically run over by an Israeli bulldozer in 2003. Edited together by Alan Rickman and Katherine Viner, it is not…
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LA Theater Review: WONDERLUST (Theatre of Note)
SCIENCE, GOD, AND LOVE: BEGIN ARGUING Buried somewhere in the convoluted twists, turns and ramblings of playwright Cody Henderson’s Wonderlust lives a great story waiting to be told. Actually, you could say it has been told: think Mamet’s Oleanna slammed together with Lawrence and Lee’s Inherit the Wind – except instead of a college professor,…
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Regional Theater Review: CAROLINE, OR CHANGE (PCPA Theaterfest in Santa Maria, CA)
THE ONLY THING THAT MAY NEED A CHANGE IS THE TITLE We hear that that the only thing constant is change, yet we struggle against change, we fight against change, and some are even willing to succumb to the unyielding stress of determined apathy rather than change. We live in a world that must change…
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Movie Review: THE DEBT directed by John Madden
LOVERS OF COLD WAR SPY THRILLERS OWE IT TO THEMSELVES TO SEE THE DEBT Split between two settings, two time periods, and two casts, it’s no wonder that John Madden’s The Debt divides so easily into two levels of quality. There’s one part that I like to call a classy, sexy Cold War spy thriller….
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Off Broadway Theater Review/Commentary: TEMPORAL POWERS (The Mint Theater Company)
A PLAYWRIGHT REBORN Sometimes you walk into a theater and, for some uncanny reason, begin to anticipate that something very fine is about to happen. And when those expectations are met, it’s like falling in love for the first time — and indeed, you remember why you fell in love with live theatre in the…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: HERO – THE MUSICAL (David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center)
KOREAN BROADWAY (SORT OF) Hero: The Musical starts off with a bang. Literally. Several loud gunshots tear holes into the front curtain, which cinematically transforms into a stellar Big Dipper that emblazons a rich blue sky. The constellation rises and the astonishingly exquisite beauty of a forest in 1909 appears. A soaring, powerful male ensemble…
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Chicago Theater Review: 1001 (Collaboraction)
WHAT ARE ANY OF US BUT A COLLECTION OF STORIES? Collaboraction’s 1001 spins the audience into a delightful vertigo. This whirling postmodern adaptation of The Arabian Nights collapses time and space, drawing vital connections across wildly disparate cultures and eras. Jason Grote’s poetic new play cleverly paces itself. After a shocking nuclear explosion, the collection…
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Chicago Theater Review: PORNOGRAPHY (Steep Theatre)
FOR THOSE WHO LIKE TO WATCH The rumblings of the elevated train beside Steep Theatre are chillingly atmospheric for the Midwest premiere of Simon Stephens’ Pornography. After all, this collection of monologues and two-person scenes are unified by an intense week in London in 2005, which included the Live 8 Concert, the G8 summit,…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: OLIVE AND THE BITTER HERBS (Primary Stages)
THE BITTERER, THE BETTER There are two brands of Charles Busch plays: the ones he stars in, which are filled with campy homoeroticism and often performed in downtown theatre dives, and the ones he does not star in, which are safe, commercial and mainstream, and usually performed uptown. As a performer, Mr. Busch is a…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: DEVILS LOVE AT MIDNIGHT and ROMEO AND JULIET (Zombie Joe’s)
THE ZOMBIE JOE AESTHETIC With each new production, inch by inch, layer by layer, we get closer and closer to tasting the artichoke heart of Zombie Joe. It is not a question anymore of which production is better; it is a question of how complex the new images are and how they sustain the mystique…
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NYC Fringe Review: CIVILIAN (Bleecker Street Theatre)
THEATER OF GOOD INTENTIONS No matter how worthy Civilian is, with its interviews of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, one cannot call this play effective theatre. There have been several moving documentaries of real soldiers being interviewed on HBO and fine war plays written by imaginative writers, but this “documentary drama” by playwright and…
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Theater Review: VIVIEN (Rogue Machine in Los Angeles)
THE MANY FACES OF VIVIEN LEIGH The one woman play Vivien, presented by Rogue Machine at Theatre Theater, is a stunning showcase of two talents, both of which make this a recommended outing: the superlative acting of Judith Chapman and the extraordinary directorial guidance of Elina de Santos. Unfortunately, Rick Foster’s play is more like…
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LA Theater Review: STONES IN HIS POCKETS (The Zephyr Theatre)
TOO MANY STONES, NOT ENOUGH POCKETS Marie Jones’s Stones In His Pockets is one of those plays that separate the boys from the men. Fifteen characters that range in age, gender, accent, and change with rapid-fire succession, played by two actors. It is a surefire gauge to differentiate between the good and the great. And…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: FREUD’S LAST SESSION (Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater)
A CLASH OF THE MINDS Mark St. Germain based his play Freud’s Last Session on a book by Armand M. Nicholi, Jr. entitled The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex and The Meaning of Life. All of the weighty issues in the book’s title are skillfully investigated and cleverly…
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Theater Review: BEAU JEST (Glendale Centre Theatre)
THIS BEAU IS JEST FINE Do you ever just want to go home, eat your mother’s comforting chicken soup, put on your oldest fuzzy slippers and find some old-fashioned comedy on AMC? Well, you’ll get no soup or slippers at Beau Jest, but you will be glad you got away from home for this old-fashioned,…
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Bay Area Theater Review: SEVEN GUITARS (Marin Theatre Company)
SEVEN GUITARS HITS A POWERFUL CHORD Late playwright August Wilson’s reputed knack for capturing time, place, and character crystallizes unforgettably in the Marin Theatre Company’s production of Seven Guitars, which is bolstered by understated yet effective direction by award-winning Broadway veteran Kent Gash. It succeeds as riveting, quality theatre while remaining uncompromisingly true-to-life. In a…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO (Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
CARLO COLLODI’S CLASSIC TALE COMES TO LIFE At the heart of Chicago’s Navy Pier lies the stunning Chicago Shakespeare Theater. On a recent Wednesday morning, this 500-seat space was packed with eager families and young summer campers for The Adventures of Pinocchio. Despite some narrative rockiness in this new musical, it is thrilling to see…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE ORIGINAL GREASE (American Theater Company)
IN THE BEGINNING, IT WAS EVEN GREASIER Apparently Los Angeles is not the only city prone to over-praise its local theater. American Theater Company’s The Original Grease has been receiving consistently strong reviews and national attention for its return to the “gritty” musical that started at Chicago’s Kingston Mines Theatre Company in 1971. While a…
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Theater Review: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (The Porters of Hellsgate in North Hollywood)
AN OUNCE OF MISSTEPS IS WORTH THIS POUND OF FLESH Before you run off to see The Porters of Hellsgate production of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice — and I surely hope that you do — let us clear something up once and for all regarding the nature of its topicality. It would be…
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Movie Review: ONE DAY directed by Lone Scherfig
SOMEHOW, IT WORKS We’ve reached the point that a significant portion of the English-speaking world (specifically, that bankrupt, riot-helmented, penalty-kick-blowing island named England) has reduced all acting to one thing — the ability to perfect the British accent. The land of Olivier has ceased caring about things like sympathy, emotion, delivery, comic timing. They are…
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