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DVD Review: STONEWALL UPRISING (PBS)
THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE DARK AGES FOR SAME SEX ORIENTATION I am going to guess – and I’d love to be wrong – that the majority of gay men under the age of 35 know little or nothing about the Stonewall Riots.  This would be analogous to African Americans not knowing about…
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Theater Review: A WEEKEND WITH PABLO PICASSO (Los Angeles Theater Center)
THE ACTOR AND THE ARTIST: TWO MASTERS AT WORK AND PLAY What a joy it is to watch the Los Angeles Theatre Center roar back to life. Once considered a dodgy neighborhood, the Historic Core has become the center of downtown’s magnificent gentrification. The area is now a haven of lofts, art galleries and restaurants;…
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Theater Review and Commentary: THE CHAIRS (A Noise Within) & ENDGAME (Sacred Fools)
WHAT AN ABSURD TIME: EXISTENTIALISM 101 & THEATRE OF THE ABSURD You’re watching a play but you have no idea what’s happening. There is no plot, the dialogue is gobbledygook, and characters are filled with despair, yet you are told that this is Theatre of the Absurd, one of the milestones in modern drama. Still…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE TEMPERAMENTALS (Blank Theatre Company in Hollywood)
NOT SO WILD ABOUT HARRY Harry Hay and The Temperamentals’â€a play based on his activism during the infancy of gay liberation’â€have much in common: fascinating but peculiar; intriguing but repellent; well-intentioned but manipulative; imaginative but misguided. Hay, who died in 2002, is best known as the match that lit the conflagration of the modern gay…
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Theater Review: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (Theatre for a New Audience National Tour)
THE PLAY’S NOT THE ONLY THING Reinterpreting the setting of Shakespeare’s plays for modern audiences will always be a subject for debate: purists believe that a play’s relevance lies in the time in which it was written; modernists believe that updating the visuals helps a contemporary audience connect to the Romantic language; still, others may…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: STANDING ON CEREMONY: THE GAY MARRIAGE PLAYS (Coronet)
AN EVENING OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVENESS It was one of those magical nights in the theatre: a confluence of activism, sterling talent, and magnificent playwriting, made all the more joyous by the palpable sense of abundant generosity and community spirit. One hopes that Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays will become a mainstay of…
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Theater Review: THE ALL NIGHT STRUT (L.A.: North Hollywood)
SHOO SHOO BABY “How do you review The All Night Strut?†my theatre companion asked as we left The Colony Theatre. Well, you don’t. This short Cabaret-style evening of songs (culled from the Swinging Years) has no plot, no skits, no set changes, no characters, and no reality – it’s a superficial stab at recreating…
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Theater Reflections: DADDYO DIES WELL, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, BONDED, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, GOD OF CARNAGE (Los Angeles)
A CONVERSATION BETWEEN A REVIEWER WITH BATTLE FATIGUE AND A REVIEWER WHO CONTINUES TO LOVE THE THEATER (A Playlet) BATTLE FATIGUE: I sometimes feel that I spend so much time in the theater that I’m beginning to suffer from battle fatigue. TENDER LOVING CRITIC: Burnt out? BATTLE FATIGUE: Yeah, a little. It gets hard to…
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Theater Review: A RAISIN IN THE SUN (Ebony Rep in L.A.)
UNCOMMON GRACE In order to validate his experience of a play, a reviewer should dissect and probe the components of a production, but once in a while a show comes along which catapults the human spirit to near nirvana. Such an outing dictates more than mere analysis – it requires a plea for your attendance….
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Theater Review: BURN THIS by Lanford Wilson (L.A. – Downtown)
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO LANFORD WILSON? The beautifully detailed lower Manhattan loft that Ralph Funicello has created – complete with fire escape and skylight, unfinished walls daubed with swatches of paint – for the revival of Lanford Wilson’s Burn This takes one’s breath away as one settles into one’s seat. But, as the saying goes,…
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Theater Review: THE ESCORT by Jane Anderson (L.A. – Westwood)
WHERE’S A TOUGH-MINDED AND PROLETARIAN WHORE WHEN YOU NEED ONE? The most interesting thing about Jane Anderson’s The Escort is the revelation that a Cadillac call girl takes on the attitudes of her high-rolling customers and, to her, as well as to her male consort, a client who takes her to a room at a…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN (Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City)
DRUID’S EVER STURDY CRIPPLE Since I think that the Druid and Atlantic Theater Company production of Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan, under the sublime direction of Garry Hynes, is as close to perfection as we can reasonably expect the theater to get, I am offering up my review of their original production [both linked…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: FRAGMENTS and THE GRAND INQUISITOR (An Evening of Peter Brook at The Broad in Santa Monica)
PURITY IN THE THEATER: FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY Pure. Perfect. Impeccable. Mesmerizing. Exquisite. Hilarious. Work of Art. Take your pick. Any one of these – or all of them – aptly describe Samuel Beckett’s Fragments, under the simple, elegant, finely tuned direction of Peter Brook and Marie Hélène Estienne. The experience of seeing it is akin…
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Theater Review: SUMMER OF LOVE (World Premiere at Carpenter Center for the Arts in Long Beach)
TAKING JUKEBOX MUSICALS TO TASK Grab those love beads and tie-dye shirts, smoke a bowl, and head down to Long Beach to hear kick-ass songs from the 60s and 70s delivered with professional gusto – songs which take you back to your early years when’¦wait, that’s too simple. Okay, how about this? In Summer of…
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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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