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  • Chicago Theater Review: LEGALLY BLONDE (The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire)

    By Dan Zeff | February 4, 2012
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    THE SILLY BLONDE MUSICAL THAT ACTUALLY WORKS Local musical productions will have problems hiring skilled and energetic young performers for the next couple of months. The Chicagoland talent pool of youthful men and women is being monopolized by the presentation of a deliciously silly musical comedy at the Marriott Theatre. Legally Blonde originated as a…

  • Regional Theater Review: LONESOME TRAVELER (Laguna Playhouse in Orange County)

    By Tony Frankel | February 4, 2012
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    EXCELLENCE VS. HOKUM With Lonesome Traveler, a compendium of the golden years of American folk music, writer/director James O’Neil has developed a long-winded and incoherent revue that is more appropriate for a pledge drive on PBS than a stage. Almost 50 songs are beautifully warbled (at least 36 in their entirety!) by a multi-talented, incomparable…

  • San Francisco Theater Review: BECKY SHAW (San Francisco Playhouse)

    By Stacy Trevenon | February 2, 2012
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    BECKY SHAW WON’T LET YOU FORGET HER; THAT’S A PROMISE AND A THREAT I’m pleased to report that Becky Shaw is not easy to sit through. Five well-chiseled characters (that you pray you will never encounter) deliver a tsunami of shocking revelations (that you hope you will never experience) in a play that will have…

  • Los Angeles Theater Reviews: CLYBOURNE PARK (Mark Taper Forum) A RAISIN IN THE SUN (Kirk Douglas)

    By Harvey Perr | February 1, 2012
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    THE CLYBOURNE CONNECTION There are two reasons to revive a play. One: to see if the play has retained its power over the years. And two: to look at the play afresh, with eyes that see now what we may not have seen when the play in question was first produced. The beauty of Phylicia…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: FRUIT FLY (Celebration)

    By Tony Frankel | January 31, 2012
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    HERE COMES MR. JORDAN Have you ever been to a sultry party that has the oppressive feel of a languid, humid day in the Deep South, only to have the energy shift dramatically when a raconteur blows in like a refreshing breeze off the Gulf Coast? Usually, it is someone who can recount their adventures…

  • Chicago Theater Review: BLACK PEARL SINGS! (Northlight Theatre in Skokie)

    By Dan Zeff | January 31, 2012
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    WHOSE ETHNIC HERITAGE IS IT, ANYWAY? Black Pearl Sings! is a two-hander that explores the odd couple relationship between a black woman in prison for murder and a white female academic in Texas during the depths of the Great Depression. The play touches on lots of chewy issues, like racism, sexism, and, most provocatively, what…

  • Theater Review: THE FEAST: AN INTIMATE TEMPEST (Chicago Shakespeare)

    By Dan Zeff | January 30, 2012
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    A FEAST FOR THE SENSES (LEAVE YOUR MIND BEHIND) Chicago’s Redmoon Company is famous for its work in puppet theater. The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is the preeminent classical theater in the region. So when the two companies combine on an adaptation of Shakespeare’s late romance The Tempest, the prospects are enticing for a special evening…

  • Chicago Theater Review: RACE (Goodman Theatre)

    By Dan Zeff | January 30, 2012
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    MAMET CONFRONTS RACISM David Mamet’s Race looks at the racial situation in this country and sees an unbridgeable chasm between blacks and whites in our society. It’s a bleak vision, fortunately delivered with scintillating dramatic tension and some very funny dialogue.   Indeed, audiences will spend much of the evening laughing at what’s happening onstage at…

  • Theater Review: INVISIBLE MAN (The Court Theatre)

    By Dan Zeff | January 30, 2012
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    INVISIBLE MAN IS DIFFICULT TO SEE Invisible Man is a complex, panoramic, symbolic novel that’s an unlikely candidate for adaptation to the stage. It’s a sprawling work crowded with characters and incidents and drenched in the author’s densely textured prose and his elusive view of the plight of black people in American society. That makes…

  • Chicago Theater Review: GYPSY (Drury Lane Theatre)

    By Dan Zeff | January 30, 2012
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    KLEA BLACKHURST IS QUEEN OF THIS GYPSY Gypsy is a musical theater biography of striptease performer Gypsy Rose Lee; but it’s really about Gypsy’s mother, Mama Rose, immortalized by Ethel Merman in the original 1959 production. Merman’s performance set the bar for all future performers brave enough to take on the role. Every revival of…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: RICHARD III (Sacred Fools)

    By Jason Rohrer | January 28, 2012
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    CHEATED OF FEATURE The joy of watching Shakespeare in performance largely depends on the ensemble’s ability to make sense of the language.   In this regard, Sacred Fools’ new Richard III succeeds, and before the intermission, it boasts the equally rare Shakespearean virtue of velocity.   But any staging of any play has responsibilities beyond diction and…

  • Tour Review: OVO (Cirque du Soleil)

    By Jason Rohrer | January 28, 2012
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    IF THIS IS THE CIRCUS, WHERE’S MY BREAD? In 1992, Guy Laliberté gentrified the big top with Saltimbanco, offering pure spectacle at Wagnerian prices, and in the process conflating art with acrobatics.   Millions of people have subsequently made the same adjustment to their definition of quality entertainment.   The change may be more significant than it…

  • Off Broadway Theater Review: YOSEMITE (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)

    By Thomas Antoinne | January 28, 2012
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    THE NATURALIST THING TO DO In the late 19th century, Naturalism emerged as a viable theatrical style in response to the artifice that had earlier been in vogue.   It was almost inevitable that overly manipulated plots and histrionic acting styles would give way to something more genuine like Naturalism.   Seeing 3-D sets with actual running…

  • Nightclub Venue Review: FEINSTEIN’S AT THE NIKKO (Hotel Nikko, San Francisco)

    By Tony Frankel | January 28, 2012
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    IT’S A NIGHTCLUB (NOT A CABARET) [Editor’s Note: In May, 2013, a year after this article was written, this nightclub became Feinstein’s at The Nikko. This article still suits the club as it is now in many ways. The Rrazz Room still has 4 other locations. Updated info for all clubs below.] It was by…

  • Film Review: JOFFREY: MAVERICKS OF AMERICAN DANCE (directed by Bob Hercules)

    By Tony Frankel | January 27, 2012
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    THE ART OF MAKING ART In economically troubled times such as these, many artistic directors are vainly attempting to figure out how their output can be remunerative. Instead of presenting a bold concept to audiences, artistic directors (and many other disciplinary artists) seem to be relying on proven methods of the past in order to…

  • Theater Review: MR. RICKEY CALLS A MEETING (Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago)

    By Dan Zeff | January 24, 2012
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    DECIDING THE FATE OF BLACK MEN IN BASEBALL In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball, the first black man in modern baseball history to play in the majors. That’s a matter of record. In 1989, playwright Ed Schmidt used that seminal event in American sports and social history to write…

  • Las Vegas / National Tour Theater Review: MICHAEL JACKSON THE IMMORTAL WORLD TOUR

    By Dan Zeff | January 22, 2012
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    OH, WHAT A FOOL THIS IMMORTAL BE [Editor’s Note: The tour reviewed below was a gigantic, arena-style show. A  more intimate and intricate encounter with the late singer’s oeuvre took up permanent residence at Las Vegas’s Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino  as Michael Jackson: ONE on June 30, 2013.] After a short run in Las Vegas, Cirque…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: OUR TOWN (The Broad Stage in Santa Monica)

    By Tony Frankel | January 22, 2012
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    THE VALUE IN SIMPLICITY The purposefully simplistic proceedings of David Cromer’s production of Our Town may seem bold and innovative to some, especially to those weaned on Broadway spectacles. Yet, the gloriously unassuming presentation now on at the Broad Stage is actually a spot-on realization of Thornton Wilder’s vision of his famous 1938 play. Indeed,…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: RED HOT PATRIOT: THE KICK-ASS WIT OF MOLLY IVINS (Geffen Playhouse)

    By Harvey Perr | January 21, 2012
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    WILL THE REAL MOLLY IVINS PLEASE STAND UP? Molly Ivins was a ballsy Texas-based reporter who became a legend in her own time by calling a spade a spade (or, more succinctly, calling George W. Bush a moron – even before he was President – and who added glorious insult to magnificent injury by saying…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: JACKIE FIVE-OH! (The Renberg Theatre at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center)

    By Tony Frankel | January 21, 2012
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    OWNING HER INNER KVETCH In Michael Wex’s treatise Born to Kvetch, he asserts that Kvetching (complaining) is not only a pastime for Jews – it’s a way of life. Kvetching can be applied indifferently to contentment or displeasure: it is a way of knowing, a means of apprehension that sees the world through cataract-colored glasses….

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