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Los Angeles Theater Review: CYCLOPS: A ROCK OPERA (Psittacus Productions)
MORE PHALLUS, PLEASE I don’t know about you, but if I were a 5th century Greek who had just witnessed three back-to-back tragedies at the Festival Dionysus, only one thing could lift my spirits: Party! The Greeks loved to party as much as they loved theatre, so why not combine the two? The “party†became…
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STORIES BY HEART – with John Lithgow – Mark Taper Forum – Los Angeles Theater Review
STORIES BY AND FOR THE HEART At the start of the second half of Stories By Heart, John Lithgow tells us that, originally, the first half was all there was; but his audience, like children, having heard one story, wanted “more.†In this instance, more proves to be less. If I had left at intermission,…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: DADDY (Hudson Theatre)
OH, DADDY, POOR DADDY, SOMEONE’S TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF YOUR GOOD NATURE (AND GUESS WHO IT IS?) When you watch Dan Via, the actor, play the part of a wise-cracking, heart-lonely “best friend,†you will get an idea of what the style of Dan Via, the playwright, consists. He acts earnestly and straight-forwardly and totally without…
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Theater Review: CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION (South Coast Rep)
REVIEWER ATTENDS AN ACTING CLASS (A TEACHER leads an acting class for reviewers.) TEACHER: OK, Tony, imagine you’re writing a review. It has been three days since you have seen Circle Mirror Transformation at South Coast Rep. What do you feel? TONY: Nothing. TEACHER: Oh, come on. You can dig deeper than that. TONY: OK….
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AMY & ELLIOT by Ryan Eggold – Gilbert Stage at the Stella Adler in Hollywood – Los Angeles Theater Review
EGGOLD SUNNY-SIDE UP Here’s a switch: in the ever-increasing saga of showcase-as-play in Los Angeles theatre, 90210 star Ryan Eggold has not only written Amy & Elliot, a genuinely funny play, but delivers a beguiling performance and manages to direct it with comical nuances that showcase the talent of his 3 co-stars. True, the sit-com…
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THE GREEN HORNET directed by Michel Gondry – with Seth Rogen – Movie Review
A SIGNPOST FOR THE DIRECTION OF SUPERHERO MOVIES When small children lay their head on the pillow each night, do they dream of running into a phone booth to change into Seth Rogen? A more popular figure in raunchy comedies than little boys’ daydreams, Rogen is one of the least likely Hollywood stars to play…
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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: METAMORPHOSES (The Flea Theater)
ANCIENT TALES OF WORLD WAR II Pants on Fire’s Metamorphoses is a deliciously entertaining, award-winning import from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival that the U.S. is lucky to have. Â Set in Britain during World War II, Ovid’s already colorful tales about gods, love, and creation come alive in a vivid, vaudevillian presentation that exploit’s the cast’s…
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Theater Review: LA NOUBA (Cirque du Soleil in Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando)
A KINDER, SIMPLER CIRQUE Commedia dell’arte is a form of theatre characterized by masked ’˜types,’ which began in Italy in the mid-1500s. About one hundred years later, Italian troupes (known as Comédie-Italienne) had achieved success in France where Moliére, inspired by the use of stock characters, introduced a lovelorn peasant named Pierrot in the play…
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Theater Review: HAIR (National Tour at Pantages)
MY TIE-DYED DIATRIBE ON THE TRIBE When a 1977 revival of the “American Tribal Love-Rock Musical” Hair opened on Broadway, it received more pans than Julia Childs’ kitchen. The original 1968 Hair had taken the theatre world by storm because it had given a palatable, exuberant and tuneful voice to the contentious counter-culture revolution. (It also helped that a…
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Cabaret Preview: SUTTON FOSTER (Orange County Performing Arts Center’s Samueli Hall)
SUTTON FOSTER IS READY FOR A CABARET CLOSE UP Sutton Foster, one of Broadway’s most loved and talented leading ladies, will make her Orange County Performing Arts Center debut January 6 – 9 in the star-studded Cabaret Series. I first encountered Miss Foster in the titular role of Thoroughly Modern Millie on Broadway; she was…
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Theater Interview: FRANK WOOD (Now Appearing in Signature Theatre Company’s production of ANGELS IN AMERICA)
A CHAT WITH FRANK WOOD Stage and Cinema‘s Cindy Pierre recently sat down with Tony award-winning actor Frank Wood to discuss his career, the experience of playing Roy Cohn, politics, and his favorite entertainments of 2010. Frank Wood as Roy Cohn ( © Joan Marcus) Cindy Pierre: What was your experience like at NYU?  Did you…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: JULIA (Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice)
RETURN TO LOVE The inability to eradicate grief can eat away at you like a cancer. Society has come up with a multitude of ways (such as the Catholic confessional) to release the steam from a pressure cooker of heartache. For some people, all of the psychological tools developed to deal with regret are useless;…
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THE FIRST JO-EL – Troubadour Theater Company at the Falcon Theatre – Los Angeles Theater Review
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO BETHLEHEM When three slapstick wise guys – Gold (Matt Walker), Frankenstein (Morgan Rusler) and Myr (Brandon Breault) – show up in Bethlehem for the arrival of the Prince of Peace, innkeeper Nicholas (Jack McGee) sees gold coins, so he touts his impregnated and unwed daughter Letty (Katie…
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LOST MOON RADIO – Café-Club Fais Do-Do and various clubs around Los Angeles – Ongoing – Los Angeles Theater Review
MOON – LOST; SUBLIME COMEDY – FOUND For those of you who love old time radio variety shows, sketch comedy and great music, you are in for a treat. Lost Moon Radio, a collection of experienced writers, performers and musicians, has assembled to bring us something that has been sorely missing from the world of…
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THEATER IN LOS ANGELES: THE BEST OF 2010
THE RESURRECTION OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: The Wooster Group production of Williams’s Vieux Carre proved without question that there is a key to his genius to be found in the later plays, contrary to the accepted notion that he was seriously burned out in the years preceding his untimely death. Elizabeth LeCompte and her lighting designer…
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Attraction Review: HARRY POTTER AND THE FORBIDDEN JOURNEY (Universal’s Islands of Adventure in Orlando)
HIS JOURNEY IS NOW YOURS Universal’s Islands of Adventure has always been one of the most astounding theme parks imaginable. But the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter actually puts the rest of the park to shame. The world offers guests a one-of-a-kind experience complete with multiple attractions, shops and a signature eating establishments. This completely immersive environment…
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TRUE GRIT directed by Joel and Ethan Coen – with Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper – Movie Review
GIRL MEETS MEN She arrived in Fort Smith with two long braids, her father dead in the street, bent on revenge and calling it justice. All of 14 years, she carried the aura of a professional. She would quote the law. She would spook old men. She would hire the marshal least likely to take…
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THE FIGHTER directed by David O. Russell – with Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo – Film Review
SOMETHING TO FIGHT ABOUT I once referred to Christian Bale as The Actor Most Likely To Tick Off His Wife By Staying In Character Over Dinner. Shortly thereafter, to my amusement, I read an article in which Bale admitted this was true, that his method actor’s commitment sometimes got on his wife’s nerves. With that…
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THE GIRL FROM NASHVILLE by Steven Michael Walters – Dorothy Strelsin Theatre – Off Broadway Theater Review
THE ETHICS OF MURDER Steven Michael Walters’ (Glenn Reed on NBC’s Friday Night Lights) The Girl from Nashville, marketed as a Southern Gothic tragedy, is adequately southern and adequately tragic, but takes the gloomy part of Gothic to the extreme. A deconstructed story about what appears at first to be a senseless murder, this production’s…
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Film Review: THE TOURIST (directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE MOVIES THAT TAKE PLACE IN VENICE ONLY I suppose it’s at least a small accomplishment that The Tourist ends in the exact place that it’s been going all along — with its too mega-stars, Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, in white tux and evening gown, dashing and bejeweled on a sailboat…
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