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Film Review: THE DESCENDANTS directed by Alexander Payne
PERFECT MOVIE, OR MOST PERFECT MOVIE EVER? The revered New Yorker critic Pauline Kael famously stated that great films are rarely perfect films. Do we ever wonder about the opposite? Are perfect films rarely great films? As the ultimate easy swallow, The Descendants – the latest release from Sideways writer/director Alexander Payne – has been…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: HORSEDREAMS (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)
HORSEDREAMS AND NIGHTMARES A few years ago, Dael Orlandersmith made a splash with Beauty’s Daughter and Yellowman, winning an Obie Award and being a Pulitzer Finalist. Her work was largely autobiographical and involved highly poetic language, direct address, and fearless, compassionate explorations into complicated aspects of race, gender, and class. Basically, she was writing theater…
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Off-Broadway Interview: TOM WOJTUNIK, director of IT IS DONE
TOM WOJTUNIK IS FAR FROM DONE You’re in Times Square for a night of theater. You turn down 47th Street and pass the Ethel Barrymore Theatre where An Evening With Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin is playing. Then you pass the old Biltmore Theatre, now owned and operated by Manhattan Theatre Club, where Venus In…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: A MAD PERSON’S CHRONICLE OF A MISERABLE MARRIAGE (Stage Left Studio)
WAR, BUT NO PEACE John Andert so captivates the audience in Sinan Ünel’s play A Mad Person’s Chronicle of a Miserable Marriage that you don’t want the play to end. Whether he is the deliciously mad chronicler or Sonya Tolstoy, tortured wife of Leo, or the great Tolstoy himself, he suffuses each character with the…
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Off Broadway Interview: SINAN ÜNEL – writer and director of A MAD PERSON’S CHRONICLE OF A MISERABLE MARRIAGE
THE LONG TERM RELATIONSHIPS OF SINAN ÜNEL AND LEO TOLSTOY Cheryl King’s intimate Stage Left Studio on Manhattan’s West 30th Street specializes in showcasing one-to-two-person plays. Through November 22, Sinan Ünel’s A Mad Person’s Chronicle of a Miserable Marriage joins the eclectic repertoire of solo gems. Embodying both Leo Tolstoy and his wife, Sonya, John…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE ROMANCE OF MAGNO RUBIO ([Inside] the Ford)
A FOOL-IPINO FOR LOVE Just as the “problem” of immigration continues to be debated by our politicians, so does it continue to be presented in our theaters. Earlier this year, in the springtime, Tom Jacobson’s new play The Chinese Massacre (Annotated) was presented at the Atwater Village Theatre. His complex historical drama, which provided little…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica)
AN ERROR IN COMEDY One of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, The Comedy of Errors, is also his shortest and most farcical. In fact, while scholars argue over the classification of other Bard works, there is no denying that this play belongs to the category of Comedies: the tale of two sets of separated twins is not…
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LA/National Tour Theater Review: BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL (Ahmanson Theatre)
PREPPY IS THE NEW SUBVERSIVE When the development of Bring It On: The Musical was announced, I rolled my eyes. The commercial viability of yet another mediocre movie-to-musical had lured Tony Award-winning talent from three refreshingly original musicals: In the Heights, Next to Normal, and Avenue Q. I doubted whether director/choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler, librettist Jeff…
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Broadway Reviews: RELATIVELY SPEAKING (Brooks Atkinson) and THE MOUNTAINTOP (Bernard B. Jacobs)
THE ACTING’S THE THING You may go to see Relatively Speaking in the hope of seeing three bright comedies by some of our funniest comic writers – Ethan Coen, Elaine May, Woody Allen – but what you will remember, after you’ve left the theater, is the actors: Danny Hoch in the Coen play, Marlo Thomas…
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Cabaret Review: CHITA RIVERA: MY BROADWAY (Samueli Theatre at Segerstrom Center)
QUEEN OF THE GYPSIES It’s a relief that Chita Rivera, one of the last great holdovers from the Golden Age of Broadway still performing today, told the audience in Costa Mesa that she doesn’t read notices. For while Chita the phenomenon is deservedly worthy of appreciation, Chita Rivera: My Broadway is so flat and surprisingly…
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Chicago Theater Review: ASSISTED LIVING (Profiles)
PROFILES OF A DREARY EXISTENCE The Profiles Theatre has carved out an essential niche for itself on the local Chicagoland theater scene with sexy, violent, and edgy modern dramas. Recently, playwright Deirdre O’Connor gave Profiles one of its major hits with Jailbait, about a pair of teen-aged girls who venture into the adult world of…
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Regional Theater Review: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (Coronado Playhouse in Coronado, CA)
SWEET AND WITTY SPOOF IS A CURE-ALL FOR THE BLUES The playbill cover for Coronado Playhouse’s highly charming production of The Drowsy Chaperone describes it as “A Musical Within A Comedy,” which is partly true: it’s also both a take-off and homage to old-fashioned Broadway musicals (book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar and music…
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Los Angeles Theater (Upcoming): FANNY (Musical Theatre Guild at the Alex Theatre in Glendale)
GET SOME FANNY There are many reasons to see the revival of Harold Rome’s 1954 musical Fanny at the Alex Theatre, but you only have one shot. Musical Theatre Guild (MTG), an Equity company of the finest musical theatre talent in, well, anywhere, will present this captivating Marcel Pagnol story on Monday, November 14 at…
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Chicago Theater Review: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT (Paramount Theatre in Aurora – Chicago Area)
A DREAMBOAT IN DREAMCOAT In just two productions, the Paramount Theatre has elevated itself to the top of the class in Chicagoland musical theater, in company with Drury Lane in Oakbrook Terrace and the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire. The Paramount opened with an ecstatically reviewed revival of My Fair Lady in September and is now…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: VIGIL (Mark Taper Forum)
SITTING VIGIL FOR THE CENTER THEATRE GROUP, OR LIVING ON BORROWED THEATER Vigil, which was first done in Canada in 1995, is an oft-produced play, having been translated into 19 languages. At the same time that Malcolm Gets was appearing in an Off-Broadway production in 2009, A.C.T. in San Francisco was planning their 2010 outing,…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: PUBERTY RITES (Castillo Theater )
CONSTANT CATFIGHTS Race is a subject loaded with potential drama. This season alone, there has been a cornucopia of plays staged in New York featuring storylines involving race. They include The Submission, Burning, Any Given Monday, and Sons of the Prophet, to name a few. Adding to this ever growing list is Puberty Rites, a…
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Regional Theater Review: THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL (South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, CA)
YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN A trip to South Coast Rep is exactly what was needed to shake off the blues of this year’s morass of over-produced and/or over-written theater. The Trip to Bountiful, Horton Foote’s plaintive 1953 teleplay (adapted for Broadway and for the 1985 film with Geraldine Page), paints a picture of rural…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: NEXT FALL (Geffen)
FALL FLAT My extreme reluctance to recommend Next Fall should not necessarily deter you from seeing it. Stay with me here. Geoffrey Nauffts’ Tony-nominated play, which concerns a gay couple with polarized religious beliefs, is a hybrid of Steel Magnolias (Southern quips and medical melodrama), Manhattan (the neurotic, atheistic, hypochondriac New Yorker who lands a…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: THE ATMOSPHERE OF MEMORY (Labyrinth Theater Company)
LOST IN THE LABYRINTH In Outrageous Fortune, Todd London’s seminal work on the current state of new plays in America, he writes that the challenge is finding a way to remain relevant to the American cultural conversation. With the high quantity of work currently being launched, streamed, and broadcast on electronic media, and the average…
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Off Broadway Theater Reviews: THE LYONS, DREAMS OF FLYING DREAMS OF FALLING, and WE LIVE HERE (Vineyard Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company, and Manhattan Theatre Club)
AUTUMN THEATER IN NEW YORK: OFF BROADWAY, THE ACTING’S THE THING Acting is the main artery through which most of New York Theater travels. When a new season is announced, one looks forward, of course, to the plays. A new play by Nicky Silver? That sounds exciting. Silver, after all, has been putting out the…
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