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Los Angeles Theater Review: PEACE IN OUR TIME (Antaeus Company at Deaf West Theatre)
A COWARD IN PEACETIME [Undelivered letter to Noël Coward discovered in North Hollywood:] My Darling Noël: Sir Anthony here, writing to you from the palm-drenched regions of Los Angeles, where I am taking a much-needed holiday from the horrors of war. (Let me know, Dear Boy, if I could peddle some of your film scripts…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: GROUNDLINGS SCIENCE FAIR (The Groundlings Theatre)
THIS FAIR IS JUST THAT: FAIR Science Fairs are an opportunity for students to apply scientific methods to an experiment and present them at a competition. The best way to take first prize from the judges is to make a genuine breakthrough or invent something new. Judges admire creativity and innovation, and look for novel…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: BUSTING OUT! (The Hayworth Theatre)
THE REALLY BIGGIE TITTY COMMITTEE What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you’re told that you’re going to see a show with two women (Emma Powell and Mandi Lodge) who are going to display their tits on stage in amusing ways that are calculated to make us laugh? You probably don’t even have…
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Bay Area Theater Review: BELLWETHER (Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley)
AN UNFORGETTABLE FAIRY TALE FOR GROWN-UPS Just in time for Halloween, Marin Theatre Company’s Bellwether takes its audiences into a deliciously spooky fairy tale world they won’t soon forget. Continuing an association between MTC and former playwright-in-residence Steve Yockey, company producing director Ryan Rilette and his cast have a ball with Bellwether‘s many twists and…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM (ICT in Long Beach)
A BRIDEGROOM ROBBED OF ITS CHARM Anxiously anticipating The Robber Bridegroom at International City Theatre (ICT), I felt like an excited bride who had already slept with her soon-to-be husband, but found on the wedding night that her bridegroom was cold, unimaginative, and flaccid. If every bridegroom on the planet had the qualities of Todd…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE DUMB WAITER (National Asian American Theater Company)
WAITING FOR PINTER National Asian American Theater Company (NAATCO) takes a steampunk spin on The Dumb Waiter, Harold Pinter’s classic absurdist thriller. Director Andrew Pang makes great use of the ambient details of a run-down building and masterfully guides two very fine actors, Louis Ozawa Changchien and Steven Park, in a suspenseful study of two…
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Chicago Theater Review: FOLLIES (Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
‘TIS FOLLY TO OVERPRAISE FOLLIES The buzz in the lobby of Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) on opening night of Stephen Sondheim’s landmark 1971 musical Follies was palpable; people from around the world were clamoring to see this rarely produced work – and for good reason. The original Broadway production is legendary: people lucky enough to…
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Off Broadway Review: SONS OF THE PROPHET (Roundabout at Laura Pels Theatre)
LOVE, FONTANA, COMPASSION One of the joys of seeing theatre in New York City Off-Broadway is that, every so often, you get to see a special star-of-the-future appear in the firmament and watch his wattage increase with each role. Santino Fontana’s performance as Joseph in the Roundabout Theatre’s production of Stephen Karam’s lovely new play…
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Interview: SANTINO FONTANA (Starring in ‘Sons of the Prophet’ at Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre)
HIS BRILLIANT CAREER (SO FAR) Still in his twenties, Santino Fontana has performed in quite a respectable number of productions that many actors would hope to accomplish in a life time: most recently The Importance of Being Earnest (Clarence Derwent Award), the short lived Brighton Beach Memoirs (Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actor), Billy…
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San Diego Theater Review: MIXTAPE (Lamb’s Players Theatre at Horton Grand Theater)
A SWEET TRIP BACK IN TIME Some shows really make you think. Others are designed to move you to tears. And then there’s miXtape, which is pretty much two full hours of cleverly-performed, good-hearted fun. If that’s beneath you, move on immediately. But if you don’t mind the idea of smiling, laughing, and even catching…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: BAIT N’ SWISH (Stage Left Studio)
GAYER TUNA In “Bait” – the first of the two interconnected one-acts in Bait n’ Swish – we meet Charlie and Justin, best friends looking for Mr. Right at Gay Bait, a gay speed-dating event in a Manhattan Howard Johnson’s. In their 3-minute rotating gay dates, they meet a horde of men looking for an…
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Los Angeles Stage & Cinema Review: THE LORD OF THE RINGS IN CONCERT: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (Honda Center)
EPIC SOUND The mark of a great film score is often its paradoxical “inaudibility;” music is in service of the story, and the visual tends to dominate. In The Lord of the Rings in Concert: The Fellowship of the Ring, however, Howard Shore’s Academy Award-winning score is deservingly foregrounded. On October 15, the majestic first…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE DOYLE AND DEBBIE SHOW (The Royal George Theatre)
COUNTRY MUSIC PARODY BETTER THAN COUNTRY MUSIC ITSELF Country music can be whiney, right wing, corny, and macho. In the case of The Doyle and Debbie Show, it is also hilarious. I am no lover of country music, but who can resist a revue that includes numbers like “Stock Car Love,” “Barefoot and Pregnant,” and…
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Chicago Theater Review: BUS STOP (The Raven Theatre)
PORTRAYALS BRING BUS STOP TO LIFE William Inge was a hot American playwright during the 1950’s, but in the turbulent 1960’s and beyond, his realistic studies of small town Midwestern life became unfashionable. Lately, Inge has reappeared on the radar of important American playwrights, with theaters and audiences again finding pleasure in his sturdy dramaturgy…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: BLAME IT ON BECKETT (Abingdon Theatre Company)
INTERN(AL) AFFAIRS We all know that having sexual relations with an intern will get you in a heap of trouble, be it in the Oval Office or at a fictitious regional theatre company. Blame It On Beckett is playwright John Morogiello’s take on such indiscretions, and the theme takes center stage under the competent direction…
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Chicago Theater Review: CLYBOURNE PARK (Steppenwolf Theatre)
TWO PLAYS IN ONE What is the purpose of theater? Some say that it is to reflect reality while being entertaining, enlightening, and/or educating. Yet when Shakespeare wrote that theatre is designed to “hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to Nature,” his character of Hamlet actually used theatre to shape reality, not merely reflect it….
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Chicago Theater Review: THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN (Seanachaí Theatre Company)
THE SHADOW OF A GREAT PLAY The birth of the Irish Republic occurred around Dublin in 1916. Aiming to end British rule, Irish Volunteers staged an insurrection known as the Easter Rising, a rebellion many Irishmen did not support. However, after quelling the week-long insurrection, the British Government’s hostile reaction – including conscription (compulsory enlistment)…
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Bay Area Theater Review: ONCE IN A LIFETIME (American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco)
ONCE IN A LIFETIME IS A ROMP FOR AN ERA When the “talkies” trumpeted a new era in American living rooms, a bevy of entertainers stampeded to get in on the ground floor of this opportunity, at all costs. This fertile field for comedy and playful jabs at the industry was harvested by Moss Hart…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE DINOSAUR WITHIN (The Theatre @ Boston Court)
ACCESS YOUR INNER DINOSAUR The Dinosaur Within digs up some curious storylines, but these fragments fail to cohere into a compelling narrative. In its West Coast premiere at Boston Court, John Walch’s play flounders in a fossil-filled fiasco. Walch aims to cut across the densely-sedimented layers of time in a drama of mourning and loss,…
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Film Review: REVENGE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR (documentary directed by Chris Paine)
CAR MANUFACTURERS BEGIN TO GET IT When Dan Neil’”the eloquent car-guy columnist who formerly wrote for Car and Driver, AutoWeek and The Los Angeles Times, and who now writes for The Wall Street Journal’”says that he’ll never buy a gasoline-powered car again, you just have to take notice. “The only way forward is electric cars,”…
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