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Theater Review: ARMISTEAD MAUPIN’S TALES OF THE CITY: A NEW MUSICAL (ACT in San Francisco)
PLENTY OF TALE – VERY LITTLE CITY The much-anticipated Tales of the City just opened at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Although the libretto (by Avenue Q’s Jeff Whitty) splices together the first two of Armistead Maupin’s famous books about a mélange of San Francisco denizens in the anything-goes sexual revolution of 1976, the…
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Movie Review: THE TREE OF LIFE directed by Terence Malick
ABSENCE GROWS MYSTERY If Terrence Malick is a saint of cinema, then this is his holy lesson. Over a four-decade career, the mercurial American visionary has mastered absence and flowered a daunting mystery. After making one of the most impressive debuts in American film history, 1973’s Badlands, he quit talking to the press. After the…
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Movie Review: MIDNIGHT IN PARIS directed by Woody Allen
WOODY AS WILSON, OWEN AS ALLEN Yes, you can believe what you’ve been reading – Midnight in Paris really is the best Woody Allen film in a long time. It’s a love letter to Paris, an ode to the Jazz age and the writers of the Lost Generation, and a romance with the past. It’s…
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Movie Review: KUNG FU PANDA 2 directed by Jennifer Yuh
PACKED WITH ACTION, BEREFT OF LAUGHS Kung Fu Panda 2 breaks new ground in the history of cinema.  Everyone knows you can’t use 3-D in the second movie in a series. You have to wait until the third one. Breaking the 3-D sequel custom appears to be Panda’s lone innovation. Otherwise, this is one of…
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Theater Review: KRUNK FU BATTLE BATTLE (L.A. – Downtown)
WHAT THE FUNK? When giving feedback at High School theatre competitions, adjudicators are reminded to encourage, not discourage young performers: negative criticism, however accurate, may dampen the spirit of gung-ho newcomers to the theatre. It is the judge’s task to support thespian tenderfoots by accentuating the positive, lest they become dismayed and give up on…
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Theater Review: LET ME DOWN EASY (Tour)
SHE MAKES IT LOOK EASY With Let Me Down Easy, Anna Deavere Smith’s powerful, engrossing and resonant solo outing, you may feel inspired to have a meaningful conversation with friends and family, as Ms. Smith has crafted a series of portrayals based on her own interviews that is at once scary, funny and life-affirming. On…
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53 Years Ago in Stage and Cinema…
Our July 18, 1958 issue, from back before we existed.
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Theater Review: JUAN AND JOHN (L.A. – Culver City)
THE EPIPHANIES THAT COME TO US AFTER BEING HIT IN THE HEAD BY A BASEBALL BAT Among the happiest of theatergoing experiences is entering the theater, without any expectations whatsoever, and, upon exiting, feeling that your life has been upended to a degree, perhaps even altered.  Roger Guenveur Smith’s soul-stirring Juan and John provides just…
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Movie Review: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (nationwide)
WHO PIRATES OF THE CARES? The thing about Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides – if anyone still cares – is that it’s an improvement for the series. But that’s just it…no one still cares. Of course, the box office will argue with me. A disturbing number of dollars will pile into the bank…
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Movie Review: INCENDIES (in limited release)
AND THE NOMINEE WAS… The thriller Incendies, a 2010 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film, is a Canadian product spoken in French about events that took place, fictionally speaking, in Lebanon during its infamous civil war. The death of a Canadian immigrant with a secret past, Nawal Marwan (Lubna Azabal), places the burden of discovery…
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Theater Review: FOUR CLOWNS and STANDING ON CEREMONY: THE GAY MARRIAGE PLAYS (L.A. – Hollywood)
ONCE-A-WEEK Monday nights at 8:00 p.m. at the L.A. Gay and Lebian Center’s Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center (The Renberg Theatre): If you’d like to take a pleasant leisurely stroll down a very narrow path abloom with fresh wildflowers and strewn with patches of weeds, I recommend Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays….
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San Diego Theater Review: LIFE OF RILEY (Old Globe)
BY GEORGE, I THINK THEY’VE GOT IT; THE SCRIPT, HOWEVER’¦ A friend of mine is an Alan Ayckbourn fanatic, owning dozens of the prolific playwright’s scripts, yet he can count on one hand the productions he has seen to date. For him, American productions are never as good as the scripts. Therfore, he says, he’d…
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San Diego Theater Review: AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (Old Globe)
HOT AUGUST PLAY NEEDS EVEN MORE HEAT It was impossible not to have any expectations prior to The Old Globe’s production of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and Tony © Award-winning three-act black comedy, August: Osage County. When a surreal amount of hype is bestowed on a new work, especially one where critics praise the playwright as…
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Theater Review: John Fleck’s MAD WOMEN (L.A. – Los Feliz)
THE OBSESSIVE PURSUIT OF ARTISTS There are few things funnier than watching John Fleck, sweating and crazed, walk perilously close to the edge of a high cliff, teeter towards falling off, and, by the neatest trick of balancing himself at the pivotal moment, catch himself from what seemed like inevitable disaster. There are few things…
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Theater Review: VOICE LESSONS (L.A. – Hollywood)
IT’S NOT THE SIZE OF THE PLAY THAT MATTERS Say what you will about Voice Lessons, Justin Tanner’s shockingly uproarious one-act play, now receiving an encore presentation at Sacred Fools Theatre, but you will never forget that you attended it. Still emblazoned in my hippocampus is Tanner’s 1994 hit,  Pot Mom, which remains one of the…
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Theater Review: THE MALCONTENT (Antaeus Theatre Company)
A CRITIC WHO RHYMES? IT’S A SIGN OF GOOD TIMES. I tell you, there’s no place that I’d rather be in, than a theatre where actors become Jacobean. A classical company, Antaeus by name, has created a show that begs nationwide fame. Penned by John Marston in 1604, The Malcontent proves to be all but…
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Theater Review: KISS ME, KATE (L.A. – Westwood)
RECIPE FOR SUCCESS Here’s a mouth-watering recipe for making people happy: 1) Take a great musical. (Kiss Me, Kate will do. If you need to ask why, then I’ll tell you: It’s both a wonderful backstage comedy romance and a scintillating interpretation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and it combines the two in…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY AND NEVER BE FOUND (The Theater @ Boston Court in Pasadena)
HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY AND BECOME A STAR If you lose your way trying to navigate the Kafkaesque journey Fin Kennedy wants to take us on in his startlingly original and thematically dense How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found, keep your eye on Brad Culver – it’ll be impossible not to – because…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY AND NEVER BE FOUND (The Theater @ Boston Court in Pasadena)
DISAPPEARANCE ACT After the opening night performance of Fin Kennedy’s existential and enigmatic drama How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found, someone remarked that, while film is about story, theatre is about ideas. As intriguing as this notion is, I merely nodded in bemusement, for I had just watched a show during which I…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: UNSCRIPTED REP (Impro Theatre at the Odyssey)
MASTERS OF AUTOSCHEDIASM I was so blown away by Impro Theatre’s  Shakespeare Unscripted that I had to check out Unscripted Rep at the Odyssey, where the inimitable company is having fun in the style of Sondheim and Williams along with Shakespeare. After viewing  Tennessee Williams Unscripted, the greatest joy occurred when my theatre-going companion stated that this…
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