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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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Los Angeles Theater Review: A HOUSE NOT MEANT TO STAND (Fountain Theatre)
THE STURDIEST DILAPIDATED HOUSE IN TOWN When she enters her house, so badly in need of repair that it might as well be razed as restored, she walks with a strange somnambulistic slowness, one foot seeming to go forward and the other simultaneously taking a step backward. She doesn’t seem to mind being drenched, as…
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ADDING MACHINE: A MUSICAL by Joshua Schmidt and Jason Loewith, based on the play by Elmer Rice / THE CRADLE WILL ROCK by Mark Blitzstein / CAMINO REAL by Tennessee Williams / WOMEN IN SHORTS by various writers – Los Angeles Theater Reviews
CUT THE PRE-CURTAIN SPEECH! If any evidence is needed to prove that Los Angeles is – as a theater town – still somewhat provincial, I present, for your delectation, the pre-curtain speech. At the Odyssey production of Adding Machine: A Musical, Ron Sossi encouraged the audience to tell their friends about it’¦whether they liked it…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO (Deaf West Theatre in North Hollywood)
TOSS IT IN THE WOOD PILE One wonders if Deaf West Theatre’s production of The Adventures of Pinocchio could have ever taken off. This remarkably plodding production already has a strike against it by choosing the choppy adaptation by Billy Elliot’s Lee Hall: it’s a hodgepodge of children’s theatre, adult humor, and a series of…
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Tour Review: AVENUE Q (Pantages Theatre)
SHORT RUN, SHORT TOUR, SHORT REVIEW Avenue Q, the delightful musical comedy which affectionately lampoons Sesame Street, blows through town this week at The Pantages as part of a short National Tour. Â Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (music and lyrics) have conceived a deceptively simple idea: what would happen if you were to incorporate Life…
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Off-Broadway Theatre Review: A JEW GROWS IN BROOKLYN (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Theater)
WHEN YOU’RE WITH JAKE, THE WHOLE WORLD IS JEWISH Various Jewish delis have a specialty known as mish mosh soup: it’s chicken soup with rice, noodles, Matzo Ball, kreplach, and kasha. Jake Ehrenreich’s solo outing A Jew Grows in Brooklyn is a mish mosh: stand-up comedy, instrumentals, audience participation, solo biographical show and more; individually,…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: SHE LOVES ME (Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities)
WE LOVES IT I’ll be the first to admit that it may be impossible to create a bad production of the 1963 musical She Loves Me; this perfect show, based on the 1937 play Parfumerie by Miklos Laszlo, is so resplendent, so charming, and so well-constructed that a recent gathering of literati for New York…
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