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Los Angeles Theater Review: I’VE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY (The Rude Mechs)
A WILD WEST PARTY IN CULVER CITY The Rude Mechs’ I’ve Never Been So Happy works overtime to please. This Western extravaganza spills into the Kirk Douglas Theater’s lobby for an interactive romp before and after the show, as well as during an extended intermission. Audience members who embrace the Frito pies and margaritas, the…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: IRIS (Cirque du Soleil)
CIRQUE DU CINEMA When Quebec-based artistic troupe Cirque du Soleil creates a new resident production, they typically design the building to fit the show. Not so with Cirque du Soleil’s IRIS. Although the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland has been around for only a decade, Cirque du Soleil still spent $100 million on renovations….
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Chicago Theater Review: THE REAL THING (Writers Theatre in Glencoe)
WHO IS TO SAY WHAT IS REAL? Tom Stoppard is the thinking person’s playwright. Ever since his breakout hit Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead in 1967, the erudite scribe has been earmarked an absurdist, one whose work concentrates on the futility of man’s search for meaning in a meaningless existence. As with all Theatre of…
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Chicago Theater Review: SNAPSHOTS: A MUSICAL SCRAPBOOK (Northlight Theatre in Skokie)
WHAT WE FIND IN THIS ATTIC IS A CASE OF THE CUTES It was a privilege to witness Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook at Northlight Theatre, for this reviewer has never seen anything like it before. An omnibus of previously published Stephen Schwartz songs (not trunk songs, mind you, but songs taken from formerly produced shows)…
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Chicago Theater Review: BRAND by Henrik Ibsen (Red Tape Theatre Company at St. James Episcopal Church)
LITERATURE NOT MEANT TO BE STAGED Halfway through the first act of Brand at Red Tape theatre, it occurred to me that I had no idea what was going on. First of all, it can be argued that Henrik Ibsen’s 1866 dramatic poem (some call it a Verse-Drama) was not written to be staged. The…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: CARNEVIL: A GOTHIC HORROR ROCK MUSICAL (Sacred Fools Theatre)
FAUSTIAN PHANTASMAGORIA “There is nothing new under the sun,” said a Jewish writer more than two thousand years ago. While such a sentiment may not have been intended to discourage creativity, it can’t help but betray a certain weariness with the world. And such seems to be the present mood in Hollywood, where the big…
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Chicago Theater Review: MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company at Greenhouse Theater in Chicago)
LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO DYSFUNCTION What becomes a new artistic director? Ambition, with a two-fisted delivery. Timothy Douglas, the new chief of the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, bravely goes bare-knuckles as the director of Mourning Becomes Electra. The production is Gordon Edelstein’s adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s play, which updates the story of Orestes by following…
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Regional Theater Review: HONUS AND ME: A BASEBALL CARD ADVENTURE (Lewis Family Playhouse in Rancho Cucamonga)
LITTLE THEATER SCORES A BIG HIT There’s nothing quite like taking a child to his very first theater outing. And when that child is a baseball fan, and the play is the family-friendly Honus and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure, well’”it’s pretty much a home run. The curtainless stage in the intimate Lewis Family Playhouse…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (Glendale Centre Theatre)
GOIN’ A’COURTIN’ IN THE BACKWOODS OF GLENDALE Glendale Centre Theatre continues its 64th season with a rambunctious production of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, the highly successful MGM musical from 1954. Although the stage version was a flop on Broadway, it has nonetheless become a popular staple for musical theatre companies. Written in a sexist…
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Theater Review: RICHARD O’BRIEN’S THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (The Old Globe in San Diego)
BEING A VIRGIN CAN BE ROCKY Best known for raucous audience participation at midnight screenings, Richard O’Brien’s cult movie classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show began life on the London stage in 1973. It enjoyed instant success by effectively melding the campy goodness of late night monster movies with ostentatious in-your-face glam rock. British audiences and critics…
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Chicago Theater Review: SWEENEY TODD (Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace)
THIS MUSICAL IS MURDER Dear Drury Lane Theatre: Since your production of Sweeney Todd is closing this week, please allow me to write a love letter to you for giving me the privilege of witnessing the finest production of Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece that this critic has ever seen. My first time was the original Broadway…
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Regional Theater Review: SOMEWHERE (Old Globe in San Diego)
THERE’S TALENT SOMEWHERE IN THIS FAMILY With West Side Story lighting up Broadway only blocks from their home, the Candelarias are inspired that Chita Rivera has cracked open the doors of opportunity for Latino performers like siblings Alejandro, Francisco, and Rebecca. As Tony and Maria sing, “There’s a place for us:somewhere.” The Old Globe’s Somewhere…
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Off-Broadway Theater Interview: CARLO ALBAN (writer and performer of INTRINGULIS)
THE UNDOCUMENTED Intringulis, an autobiographical play written and performed by Carlo Alban, is now in production at Off Broadway’s INTAR. Stage and Cinema caught up with Carlo recently to discuss the evolution of the project and the plight of undocumented workers in the United States. * * * * * * * * * *…
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Chicago Theater Review: RED (Goodman Theatre)
A PALE SHADE OF RED The closing stage picture in John Logan’s 2010 Tony-winning Red at the Goodman is about as thrilling and breathtaking as theater gets: as Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko (Edward Gero) examines one of his paintings commissioned by an upscale restaurant in New York, the spectacular lighting (Keith Parham) and set…
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Movie Review: 50/50 directed by Jonathan Levine
50% CHANCE OF LIVING; 90% CHANCE OF OFFENDING WOMEN If you hear the movie press machine tell it, I’m supposed to come away from 50/50 talking about how it’s a new type of cancer movie – frank, funny, and unconventionally moving – based on the real-life cancer experiences of its screenwriter, Will Reiser. Instead, I…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: LIDLESS (Page 73)
IN OVERPRAISE OF YOUNGER PLAYWRIGHTS One approaches Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s Lidless with high expectations. The play has won the prestigious David C. Horn Yale Drama Prize as well as UT Austin’s Keene Prize where Cowhig received an MFA. Blackburn finalist, commissions, fringe prizes, and residencies confirm Cowhig as a writer the American Theatre has anointed…
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Chicago Theater Review: STARTING HERE, STARTING NOW (Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre)
REVUE REVIEW Richard Maltby, Jr., and David Shire are not household names among the teams of composers who have contributed to the American musical stage. Although their collaboration goes back to their college days at Yale, they only have two Broadway shows to their credit: Baby (1983), a favorite among regional theaters, and Big (1996),…
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San Diego Theater Review: WALTER CRONKITE IS DEAD (San Diego Repertory Theatre)
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF SPENDING TIME WITH STRANGERS It’s everyone’s social nightmare brought to life: being trapped next to the annoying stranger who won’t shut up. But when it’s someone like the uptight, instantly off-putting Margaret (Ellen Crawford) getting trapped by a high-spirited í¼ber-Walmart-shopper-type like Patty (Melinda Gilb), this nightmare is a delicious delight…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: SEPTIMUS & CLARISSA (Ripe Time)
WHO’S AFRAID OF ADAPTING VIRGINIA WOOLF? Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway beautifully intertwines the inner and outer worlds of her characters, seamlessly sweeping from description to dialogue, from one character’s consciousness to another’s, from the past to the present. Ripe Time physicalizes not only the narrative of Woolf’s post-WWI classic, but her evocative style in the…
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Off Broadway Theater Review: DUBLIN BY LAMPLIGHT (Inis Nua Theatre)
SHINES BRIGHT BUT GOES DIM In Michael West’s Dublin by Lamplight, a community theater’s idealistic mission to establish an “Irish National Theatre of Ireland” crosses commedia style with the grim poverty of the nation in 1904, making for a decidedly mixed evening’s entertainment. Philadelphia-based Inis Nua Theatre brings spectacular life to the stock characters of…
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