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Theater Review: DEVIL’S ADVOCATE by Donald Freed (Los Angeles)
THE GENERAL AND THE ARCHBISHOP Gore Vidal wondered if the stupidest city in the world even deserved a play as radical as Donald Freed’s Devil’s Advocate. He certainly seemed, in a post-play discussion at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, surprised to be seeing the play done at all. Freed has had some defenders of his…
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Theater Review: SMALL ENGINE REPAIR by John Pollono (Los Angeles)
THE VIRTUE OF SMALL ENGINES In the mood for a heavy dose of machismo? The kind where three old chums get together and talk about pussy and big tits and reminisce about the old days? Who say “Let’s drink and talk less†and then drink more and talk more without revealing much more about themselves…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: N*GGER WETB*CK CH*NK (A Speak Theater Arts Production at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Hollywood)
GETTING OVER RACISM 101 For a show with a title as dangerous as N*gger Wetb*ck Ch*nk—an evening of confronting racism with comedy, playing this month at the Barnsdall Gallery Theater—it would be difficult to imagine a more tame show. Aside from references to stereotypical penis sizes, it is strictly family fare (though you could argue…
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Theater Review: THE HUMAN VOICE by Jean Cocteau (Hollywood)
COCTEAU CALLING A disheveled bed, letters strewn across the floor, a woman quaking by the phone awaiting her lover’s last call: Jean Cocteau’s 1930 play about the need for human communication is strangely poignant in our contemporary world of pervasive cell phones, e-mail, and Facebook. A Bunch of Artists’ Los Angeles premiere of Anthony Wood’s…
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Theater Review: GLORY DAYS by James Gardiner and Nick Blaemire (Hollywood)
GLORY DAYS GETS ITS GLORY BACK Glory Days is legendary among contemporary musical theater fans. With book by James Gardiner and music and lyrics by Nick Blaemire, this youthful musical received rave reviews in its initial run at Signature Theatre, transferred to Broadway in 2008, and promptly opened and closed in a single night. What…
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Theater Review: BONDED (Los Angeles Theatre Center)
THE BOYS IN THE BOND Regarding his play bonded, Black playwright Donald Jolly has said that he is trying to lay claim to his own place in this world by using tales of his enslaved ancestors as a guide. In Jon Lawrence Rivera’s imaginative production of bonded, now on at Los Angeles Theatre Center, it is…
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Theater Review: RE-ANIMATORâ„¢ THE MUSICAL (Hollywood)
SON OF A HORROR FLICK How lucky we Angelenos are that Re-Animatorâ„¢ The Musical a funny, campy, thoroughly entertaining gore-fest, opened here before splattering itself on legions of cult-loving audiences around the country. Horror fans will love the grisly story, theatre fans will prick up their ears to an exciting composer/lyricist, and cultists will love…
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Movie Review: SOURCE CODE directed by Duncan Jones
HERE WE GO AGAAAAAIN! A train. A bomb. A bomber. A mystery woman. And a ticking clock. Source Code, the second film by Moon director and David Bowie offspring Duncan Jones, builds itself out of these classical Hitchcock-style elements. Through a computer virtual reality program, a military program places an injured air force captain onto…
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Movie Review: INSIDIOUS directed by James Wan
METHOD SPOOKING There is one good thing about the indie horror flick Insidious, directed by the original SAW helmer James Wan:  the awesome retro-Bernard Herrmann-style score, all nutso violins in the key of Psycho. Otherwise, there’s not so much to say about a pretty conventional schlock horror story that might as well be made by…
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Off Broadway Review: MACBETH by William Shakespeare (Theatre for a New Audience)
A MACBETH WITH VERY MUCH TO RECOMMEND The interesting thing about seeing multiple productions by the same theater company and the same director is that a pattern begins to emerge. Theatre for a New Audience’s production of Macbeth, starring John Douglas Thompson, contains the same strengths and weaknesses as director Arin Arbus’s previous work with…
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Theater Review: PRIVATE LIVES (Laguna Playhouse)
COWARD ON THE BEACH Noël Coward’s oft-produced classic Private Lives is indeed, as one of his characters states, jagged with sophistication. The story is of a divorced, fiercely contentious, and veddy British couple who, having reconnected on the honeymoon night of their new marriages, run off with each other to Paris, abandoning their respective spouses….
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Theater Review: BETWEEN US CHICKENS by Sofia Alvarez (Costa Mesa)
YOUNG IN L.A. For self-proclaimed losers Sarah and Meaghan, a post-college move to Los Angeles promises a total break from the past, if not fame and fortune as well. In Sofia Alvarez’s provocative new play Between Us Chickens, these small-town East Coast friends must face up to LA’s devastating fantasies of self-(re)invention. One of SoCal’s…
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Music Review: A MIGHTY VOICE (Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles at Los Angeles Theatre Center)
SOME MIGHTY IMPRESSIVE VOICES The Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles (GMCLA) are presenting A Mighty Voice, and there is only one performance left to attend. A dazzlingly well-written review should be inserted here, and hopefully will for posterity. But because of time constraints, and since there’s only one performance left, we have to make…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE MERCY SEAT (Vs. Theatre Company at [Inside] the Ford)
THE DAY AFTER THE WORLD CHANGED Red and blue emergency vehicle lights cut across the New York City skyline outside Abby’s comfortable high rise apartment. It is September 12, 2001, and lovers Abby and Ben delve into the caustic Ground Zero of their relationship in Vs. Theatre Company’s compelling Los Angeles premiere of The Mercy…
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: CYCLOPS: A ROCK OPERA (Carrie Hamilton Theatre at the Pasadena Playhouse)
I’M A CY-CLOOOOOOPS One of Stage and Cinema‘s favorite Los Angeles Theatre Companies, Psittacus Productions, has announced that Cyclops: A Rock Opera will be moving to the Carrie Hamilton Theatre at Pasadena Playhouse. It opens April 9 (with a preview on April 7), and runs through May 8, 2011. Their previous production, A Tale Told…
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TV/DVD Review: HOW SMART ARE ANIMALS? & CAN WE MAKE IT TO MARS? (NOVA scienceNOW on PBS Home Video)
BEYOND NEAT TRICKS When Neil deGrasse Tyson, the host of the video magazine NOVA scienceNOW, was a guest on The Daily Show recently, Jon Stewart complimented him for finally “making science cool.” And it is cool to have Tyson, an approachable, gentle presence, representing the wonders of science. If only we’d had someone like him…
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LIMITLESS directed by Neil Burger – with Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro – Movie Review
BRADLEY COOPER LEAPS FROM DULL HEARTTHROB TO ENGAGING ACTOR Has there been some secret value to a flipped-out Charlie Sheen declaring himself the Nietzschean Ubermensch, living by a porn star code that mere mortals could only hope to appreciate? I would say yes. In his little henpecked heart, every man would love to stand on…
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–˜TIL DEATH DO US PART: LATE NIGHT CATECHISM 3 by Maripat Donovan – Carrie Hamilton Theatre at The Pasadena Playhouse – Los Angeles (Pasadena) Theater Review
AND THEN THERE WAS NUN ’˜Til Death Do Us Part: Late Night Catechism 3 is actually the fourth installment of Maripat Donovan’s phenomenally successful series of one-woman shows (a fifth is due later this year); in it, she portrays a nun in full habit, interactively teaching the audience – her Catechism class – on all…
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Film Review: MAKING THE BOYS (directed by Crayton Robey)
THE SAD LEGACY OF AN HISTORICAL MOMENT Making the Boys, the vigorous and absorbing new documentary, ostensibly about Mart Crowley and his ground-breaking The Boys in the Band, is, in truth, at least three (and possibly four) documentaries rolled into one, and put together with a sure and steady hand by the highly gifted and…
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RED RIDING HOOD directed by Catherine Hardwicke – Movie Review
MY,GRANDMA, WHAT MISSED OPPORTUNITIES YOU HAVE Catherine Hardwicke, the director of the first Twilight movie, has a gift for conveying horny teenage moodiness, in particular as it applies to females. I’m not sure anyone grows up thinking that will be his or her gift. Nevertheless, there it is, and her take on the Red Riding…
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