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Theater Review: THE INTERLOPERS (Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles)
ENTERTAINING, BUT HARDLY INTRUSIVE When Ralph Waldo Emerson referred to an “interloper” in his writings, it was most assuredly with a negative connotation, for in the 1800s an interloper was one who selfishly intruded on others for the purposes of rank, privilege or money. The interlopers of Gary Lennon’s world premiere play at the Bootleg…
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Theater Review: INEFFABLE (Ten West at the Theatre of Note)
WHO’S CHEATING WHOM? The spookiest image of Death (with a capital “D”) is that of a tall, hooded, scythe-carrying figure. It merely points with bony finger towards that ultimate location to which we are all headed: the end of life. The aspect that makes this sinister figure all the more terrifying is that it doesn’t…
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Movie Review: TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (nationwide)
A PROMISING TRANSFORMATION: ONLY HALF BAD A funny thing happened on my way to pan Michael Bay’s midsummer mega monster mash Transformers: Dark of the Moon. It turned out that I liked about half of it. Strangely, that would not be the gargantuan 3-D final hour of demolished Chicago skyscrapers, impossible Special Forces stunts, flying…
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Musical Theater Review: TWIST – AN AMERICAN MUSICAL (Pasadena Playhouse)
A TWIST OF LEMON Tony, a frantic theatre critic, calls John, his editor, in the middle of the night. John: [sleepy] This better be good. Tony: What’s happening to the theatre? [sobbing now] My God:the theatre: John: Take it easy, Shakespeare. Tony: Where is Jerome Robbins? He was standing here a minute ago. John: What’s…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: THE TROUBLE WITH WORDS (Coeurage Theatre Company)
NO TROUBLE HERE I vividly remember the first time I heard William Finn’s March of the Falsettos, Adam Guettel’s Floyd Collins, Michael John LaChiusa’s The Wild Party, and Jason Robert Brown’s Parade. Already inured to Loesser and Sondheim, it was thrilling to hear from these brand new composer/lyricists: they were immediately recognizable as those who…
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Theater Review: THE LAST FIVE YEARS (Bright Eyes Productions at the Lounge Theatre)
THE BEGINNING AND THE END Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years is contextually brilliant: it is a two-character musical that starts at the end of a five year relationship for the woman, but at the beginning for the man. Her songs go backward in time and his forward. In the middle of the 85…
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Musical Theater Review: WORKING: THE MUSICAL (theTRIBE)
WORKING WITH WHAT THEY’VE GOT theTRIBE’s simplistic production of an updated revision of Working – Stephen Schwartz’ soapy musical adaptation of Studs Terkel’s book – actually left an emotional impression, largely thanks to seasoned performers and a huge dose of earnestness and love. Yes, there is some amateur acting and silly dialects. Yes, the group…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: BAKERSFIELD MIST (Fountain Theatre)
WHAT IS ART ANYWAY? What if you were an alcoholic ex-bartender who lived in a mobile home in a trailer park in Bakersfield that was furnished with junk bought from rummage sales and who found, in the back of someone’s garage, a painting that you didn’t really like, but, after all, at $3.00, it seems…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: URBAN DEATH (Zombie Joe’s Underground Group)
OUR OWN PRIVATE GRAND GUIGNOL I hesitate to call anyone a genius on the basis of two productions, but if Sotto Voce alerted me to the unique talents of Zombie Joe, then Urban Death, the beautifully strange and ever evolving Saturday late night show at Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group, confirmed and validated my impression…
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Movie Review: CARS 2
MATER THE SIDEKICK CAR Imagine that after Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace George Lucas ditched the whole Anakin/Vader storyline and turned Attack of the Clones over to Jar Jar Binks. If you can imagine that without crawling into a mental fetal position, then you can imagine Cars 2. In this animated sequel from…
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Musical Theater Review: SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK (N.Y.C. – Broadway)
SPIDER-MAN 2.NO By now, you’ve probably read at least a portion if not all of the hoopla that surrounds Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark, originally helmed by book writer and director Julie Taymor. Its reputation for being rife with technical and structural problems and being one of the most ambitious productions ever to take place…
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MORE FROM RADAR L.A. FESTIVAL
TEATRO LINEA DE SOMBRA: AMARILLO In the mixed-media event par excellence of RADAR L.A., Amarillo is perhaps the most spectacular of the international events that are giving intellectually curious and eager Los Angeles theater audiences a special frisson of excitement this week. But it doesn’t stop at being visually arresting and aurally hypnotic; it builds…
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DVD Commentary: TRANSCENDENT MAN: THE LIFE AND IDEAS OF RAY KURZWEIL (Docurama Films)
WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO? In the mid-1970s, an exciting new video game captured the nation and ushered in the video game revolution as we know it today. Â If you were around then, you undoubtedly knew someone who had it hooked up to their TV; or you might have stopped at a bar that…
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Movie Review: THE GREEN LANTERN (directed by Martin Campbell)
MEDIOCRE HERO Have you ever gotten into a conversation – and for the life of me, I hope you haven’t – about the supposed fascist underpinnings of comic book superheros? A film that accepts and teases this fascist nature is The Green Lantern. Test pilot Hal Jordan joins an interplanetary army built on the idea…
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Theater Review: SUPERIOR DONUTS (L.A. – Geffen Theater)
TOO MUCH SUGAR ON THE DONUTS If Superior Donuts had come to us as a new American play by an unknown writer, we might have said that, despite a certain soft-headedness and the feeling that it was the pilot for a socially-conscious situation comedy, it was the work of a promising young writer who has…
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Theater Review: MARGO VEIL (L.A. – Odyssey)
THE SCHEHERAZADE OF POP CULTURE There are a thousand and one ways to tell a story. In Margo Veil, Len Jenkin, one of our most intriguing and often exasperating playwrights, becomes a modern Scheherazade, weaving elements of contemporary pop culture into the ancient art of fable-making. And, in one of those rare moments when a…
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Theater Reviews: RADAR L.A. FESTIVAL: DAY TWO
FLEUR ELISE NOBLE: 2 DIMENSIONAL LIFE OF HER This is to installation art what NEVA is to theater: a sublime illustration of the form. Noble’s collage (of projected images, cut-outs, drawings, puppets, paper, and Ms. Elise herself in constant movement somewhere in the space) creates a crisp black-and-white world, with more shades of grey in…
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Theater Review: FROM THE RADAR L.A. FESTIVAL: Teatro en El Blanco’s NEVA
When a festival opens on as brilliantly shattering a note as the RADAR L.A. FESTIVAL did on Tuesday night with Neva, expectations for the rest of the festival run very high indeed. From Chile’s Teatro en El Blanco, vividly written and directed by Guillermo Calderón, who is the company’s leader, Neva brings a jolt of…
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Theater Review: reprint of BREWSIE AND WILLIE (now at RADAR L.A.)
Editor’s note: Brewsie and Willie is currently running as part of the Radar L.A. Theater Festival. This review is reprinted from an earlier production of the show in July 2010. We are printing the text only. To see the review as it originally appeared, visit http://old.stageandcinema.com/brewsie_and_willie.html The current production ends June 26, 2011. For tickets,…
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Theater Review: BLACKBIRD (Rogue Machine in L.A.)
LEARNING TO FLY WITH BROKEN WINGS “Blackbird singing in the dead of night/Take these broken wings and learn to fly/All your life/You were only waiting for this moment to arise.” Â Would it have been too obvious to play the haunting Beatles song either before the start of David Harrower’s unsettling Blackbird (which is receiving a…
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