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San Francisco Theater Review: THE TEMPEST (A Cutting Ball at the Exit Theater)
A TEMPEST OF IMAGINATION Many productions of Shakespeare’s works pass themselves off as inventive merely because the setting is New York instead of Verona, or Renaissance costumes are swapped for Art Deco – rarely do these stylistic changes improve the psychology of the piece. When it came to my attention that The Tempest was to…
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Interview with John Behlmann, now performing in ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S THE 39 STEPS, adapted by Patrick Barlow from the screenplay by Charles Bennett and Ian Hay (adapted from the novel by John Buchan, Off Broadway at New World Stages
A TRIPLE THREAT (HE ACTS, TRAPS, AND RAPS) Stage and Cinema’s Cindy Pierre recently sat down with John Behlmann (who sounds very much like the Movie Phone guy), now appearing as Richard Hannay in Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps. Cindy Pierre: You double-majored in Government and French back at Wesleyan. Â Was that to groom you…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: PERSONAL ENEMY (59E59 Theaters)
MEANWHILE, ACROSS THE POND, DURING THE McCARTHY ERA When John Osborne and the lesser-known playwright/actor Anthony Creighton wrote Personal Enemy in 1953, it would have been courageous for someone living in the U.S. to caricature anti-communists as grotesque, proudly ignorant, anti-intellectual yahoos – it wouldn’t have been thoughtful or artistically interesting, but it would have…
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Off-Off-Broadway Theater Review: SOUL LEAVES HER BODY (HERE Arts Center)
STAGE MERGES WITH CINEMA Soul Leaves Her Body starts with the three principal actors walking toward us one by one, slowly, as if through a mist. As they do this, smooth white video plays behind them, populated by large figures that imitate like they are looming shadows, revealing the actors’ true selves. Our plain-clothed black,…
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ELF by Thomas Meehan and Bob Martin (book), Chad Beguelin (lyrics) and Matthew Sklar (music) – based on the screenplay by David Berenbaum – Al Hirschfeld Theatre – Broadway Musical Theater Review
ANOTHER MOVIE FINDS ITS WAY TO BROADWAY In 2003, Elf, a delightful Christmas comedy with dark undertones – about the adventures of an overgrown elf that discovers that he’s actually a human – was released in movie theaters to critical acclaim.  Now on Broadway, the musical version of Elf is a sugared down version of…
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Theater Review: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (National Tour)
SMALLER PRODUCTION, BIGGER HEART Fans of the stage musical Beauty and the Beast will not be disappointed by the newly re-imagined (read: scaled down) version currently on tour. Original Broadway director Rob Roth has assembled the same team, including Tony-winning costume designer Ann Hould-Ward; what we get, instead of a two-ton castle set, is a…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND (Jerome Robbins Theater)
THEATER OF DOSTOEVSKY Fyodor Dostoevsky is recognized as a psychologist, philosopher, and storyteller. His two masterpieces, Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamozov, explore weighty philosophical questions: in Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov believes himself to be an extraordinary man who is not limited by morality almost fifteen years before Nietzsche put the term übermensch (inadequately…
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Archives – Our reviews published prior to August 2010
If you’re looking for reviews and articles published before August 2010, this is the right place. Just follow the links below. Film Reviews published prior to August 2010 New York City Theater Reviews published prior to August 2010 Los Angeles Theater Reviews published prior to August 2010 DVD Reviews published prior to August 2010 Interviews…
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San Francisco Theater Review: MARCUS; OR THE SECRET OF SWEET (American Conservatory Theater)
SWEET BEGINNINGS It is thrilling to hear the poetic dialogue of a propitious new American playwright for the first time; one who uses a unique, innovative and visionary arrangement of words that not only awaken your senses, but heighten your hopes that the profligate use of technological blather will not drown out a voice which…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE BUTCHER OF BARABOO (Road Theatre in North Hollywood)
WISCONSIN Â IN SENSURROUND What do you get when you mix the styles of Grand Guignol, farce, and situational comedy with the sensibilities of the Coen Brothers (Fargo) and Frederick Knott (playwright of Dial M For Murder and Wait Until Dark)? One would think a bloody, horrific mess, but The Butcher of Baraboo, at the Lankershim Arts…
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Tales From Hollywood – Odyssey Theatre Ensemble – Los Angeles Theater Review
HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD In the fascinating (and often funny) Tales From Hollywood, playwright Christopher Hampton pays homage to the true-life émigrés from Nazi Germany who took up residence in Los Angeles to write for the movies. Many of them sacrificed their literary legacy to be paid $100 a week, forced to turn out dreck for…
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Regional Theater Review: BECKY SHAW (South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa)
SHARP AS A DULL RAZOR Gina Gionfriddo is smart. She has gone to no less brilliant a writer than William Makepeace Thackeray for inspiration. Becky. Gionfriddo’s contemporary gold digger, in her desperation to worm her way out of her class and into a marriage that seems recklessly impossible, even owes her name to Becky Sharp,…
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Interview: BRIAN LONSDALE (performing on Broadway in THE PITMEN PAINTERS)
SPENDING YOUR HONEYMOON ON A BROADWAY STAGE [Last week, Stage and Cinema‘s Cindy Pierre sat down with Brian Lonsdale, the actor who plays The Young Lad and painter Ben Nicholson in The Pitmen Painters, to discuss his acting pedigree and the cultural differences between New York and England. Between Pierre’s peals of laughter and Lonsdale’s…
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UNSTOPPABLE directed by Tony Scott – with Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson – Movie Review
SUBMIT TO THE THRILL RIDE I loved Unstoppable. I loved every improbable, electric minute of Tony Scott’s runaway train movie.  I loved its ludicrous start. I loved its “Why didn’t they do that in the first place? Because then we wouldn’t have a movie†ending. Most of all, I love the fact that it’s red…
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MORNING GLORY directed by Roger Michell – with Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, Patrick Wilson, Jeff Goldblum – Movie Review
LIKEABLE FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS What’s wrong with being happy? Contrary to the evidence presented in adult-focused movies, you might never know there are happy people out there.  It’s true. I’ve ignored them at parties. But I never see them onscreen. In Morning Glory, Rachel McAdams plays a lemons-to-lemonade go-getter named Becky Fuller, with…
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Stage and Cinema theater correspondent Tony Frankel checks out the City of…which city is Las Vegas again? I would say it’s the city that REALLY never sleeps. Â I’ve caught New York napping so many times, you wouldn’t believe it. Â Not Vegas. Â Las Vegas, that is. Â Swimming pools. Â Stand-up comedy stars. Â Middle America. Â Until The Recession…
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Theater Review: LE RÊVE (Wynn Theater in Las Vegas)
THE BEST WET DREAM YOU WILL EVER HAVE How does one review a dream, which is a succession of images, thoughts and emotions – something of unreal beauty, charm, or excellence? How does one describe a dream – that amazing, nearly inexplicable labyrinth of sensations that can transport us on a magical journey unlike anything…
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Las Vegas Review: TERRY FATOR & HIS CAST OF THOUSANDS (The Mirage)
FATOR LEAVES AN IMPRESSION THAT MAY NOT BE FOR EVERYONE What you think about Terry Fator, the astoundingly talented ventriloquist in residence at The Mirage, may depend on what type of audience member you are politically, socially, or culturally. Fator’s injection of conservative ideals into what is already a fairly squeaky-clean entertainment may make some…
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Las Vegas Theater Review: VIVA ELVIS (Cirque du Soleil at The ARIA Hotel at CityCenter)
THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES (OR IN THIS CASE, THE KING’S) While awaiting Viva ELVIS, Cirque du Soleil’s new Vegas extravaganza in the exquisite and luxurious new theatre at the ARIA Hotel, my excited expectation turned to finger-crossing trepidation when actresses portraying Bobby Soxers began milling through the audience and climbing over seats in their attempt…
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Los Angeles Theater Reviews prior to August 2010
Los Angeles Theater Reviews of the 2010-2011 season 1776 (Tony Frankel) 40 Is The New 15 (Tony Frankel) All My Sons (Tony Frankel) Amadeus (Tony Frankel) Beyond (Tony Frankel) Brewsie and Willie (Harvey Perr) Chess in Concert (Tony Frankel) The Girl Who Would Be King (Tony Frankel) The Good Woman of Setzuan (Harvey Perr) Jewtopia(Tony Frankel)…
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