Monday, June 2, 2014
A BLASPHEMOUS BLAST After Dominique Serrand’s jaw-droppingly juicy and insanely inventive production of Molière’s Tartuffe, a South Coast Rep patron was heard to say, “…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:59PM[SHARE]FRACTURED FAIRY TALES Director Jessica Kubzansky’s imagination is firing on all cylinders, turning frivolousness into delight with South Coast Rep’s The Stinky Cheese Man and …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:19PM[SHARE]Friday, May 30, 2014
MORE LANG FOR YOUR BUCK While Jessica Lang has made a name for herself in the dance world as an independent choreographer, dance patrons in Los Angeles may find this dancemaker difficult to …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 29, 2014
趙 æ° å¤ å…’ COMES TO A.C.T. Who amongst us can deny that at one time or another we have been wronged or injured by someone else? But how many feel that retaliation by exac…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:44PM[SHARE]Monday, May 26, 2014
AMERICAN HERO OR AMERICAN ZERO? While researching a speech on the origins of "The Star-Spangled Banner," I came across a name that I remembered from a visit to Gettysburg National Military P…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2014
SAY IT, MOTHERFUCKER When you see the word "Motherf**ker" in the title The Motherf**ker with the Hat, what comes to mind? Why, "Motherfucker," naturally. While the asterisks may be necessary…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 21, 2014
TWO TONY'S UNITE FOR ONE OF THE BIGGEST THEATER EVENTS OF THE YEAR For anybody starved for smart and thrilling playwriting, your destination is Berkeley Rep, which is unfurling the West Coas…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 20, 2014
A PRODUCTION FOR TUTTE TO COSÃŒ UP TO For those who think that the "semi-staging" for Così fan tutte, which opens on Friday at Disney Hall, is simply a world-class orchestra accompanyin…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:19AM[SHARE]Monday, May 19, 2014
COME HOME TO THE THEATER Statistics vary, but there were approximately 700,000 homeless Americans in 2013. While the government reports that figures are less drastic since the 2007 economic …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:48PM[SHARE]Friday, May 16, 2014
a poem about a play This critic, this poet this pinch faced sailor Blueblack eyes like wet rocks icy sharp nose like a dagger screams I AM A PLAGIARIST this poem MY poem paraphrased from act…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 15, 2014
A ROAD TRIP YOU HAVE TO TAKE Some may not know this, but Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard is also an amazing short story writer. After reading Cr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:29PM[SHARE]Monday, May 12, 2014
DAZZLING DOMINGO IN MASSENET’S MASTERPIECE What do world-renowned singers do once they have reached the age of retirement? On the strength of their name, they fill cabarets and concert…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 10, 2014
THE OLD SONG-AND-DANCE Full of vitality, eagerness, and joie de vivre, the indefatigable, cheerful, and fast-talkin' showman Maurice Hines is offering a walk-down-memory-lane with song, big …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:28PM[SHARE]Friday, May 9, 2014
GOING WHERE NO FESTIVAL HAS GONE BEFORE Writer and actor David Dean Bottrell came up with a swell idea for Los Angeles"a science fiction theater festival. Consisting of two different program…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2014
INTO THE WORDS For his production of Into the Woods, director T.J. Dawson notes that Stephen Sondheim's score is often revered as genius. "However, many of his incredible lyrics rush by most…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:29AM[SHARE]JUST DANCE I recently read an email from a dance mentor whose advice for performing was simply, "Let it all go and Dance, Motherfuckers!" I couldn't help but think back to the email as I wat…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 6, 2014
29 IS THE NEW 19 "If you ever feel stuck in your life," Broadway, TV, and film heartthrob Jeremy Jordan told the adoring throng at his L.A. debut last night, "go back to your childhood and r…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:13PM[SHARE]Monday, May 5, 2014
OOPSY DAISY With enough comic personality to rival Fanny Brice, the droll, deft, dirty, daffy, derisive, delirious, and delightful Daisy Eagan, best-known for being the youngest female Tony …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:27PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 3, 2014
NOT PREMEDITATED ENOUGH Despite playwright Evelina Fernández' ability to take clichéd problems about marriage and turn them into humorous complaints about men tossing underwear on the fl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:55PM[SHARE]TIME IS RELATIVE FOR THE RELATIVES IN TIME J. B. Priestley's Time and the Conways is in some ways a creaky play, yet the production at The Old Globe is so lovingly directed, thrillingly acte…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:32AM[SHARE]DIM LIGHTS As part of its 17th Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival, South Coast Repertory presented a play by Adam Rapp. Unlike Theresa Rebeck's Zealot and Rajiv Joseph's Mr. Wolf, which rec…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:16AM[SHARE]Friday, May 2, 2014
WHAT DO YOU HAVE A TASTE FOR? Six weeks before the opening of Sacred Fools' cannibal play, one of Stage and Cinema's writers (to whom I will assign the alias "Ethel") asked if she could revi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 1, 2014
WATER IS THE GIFT OF LIFE Water by the Spoonful is the second play in Quiara Alegria Hudes' "Elliot Cycle," three stand-alone plays written over an eight-year period. Elliot, A Soldier's Fug…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:31PM[SHARE]Monday, April 28, 2014
DON'T PASS ONÂ PASSION When first I saw Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion on Broadway in 1994, it was clear that this shattering new work was like nothing that had come before. I…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 26, 2014
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE OPENS AT THE NORRIS Before American Musical Theater was reinvented by Oklahoma! in 1943, musical comedies were constructed piecemeal"a comic star here, a songwriting tea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:44PM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2014
GET SOME TALE In 1918, Igor Stravinsky and Swiss writer Ferdinand Ramuz wrote L’Histoire du soldat (The Soldier’s Tale) a short theatrical work meant to be "read, played, and dan…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 22, 2014
UNBEREAVABLE Bekah Brunstetter's Be a Good Little Widow is awash with structural issues (ambiguous timeline, disconnected scenes), trite themes and relationships, and a refusal to penetrate …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:24PM[SHARE]Monday, April 21, 2014
WHICH GAME IS ON? With the 2014 Hollywood Fringe Festival set to begin in June, I decided to check out Fathers at a Game. I was curious to see why this 50-minute three-hander was being bille…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:44PM[SHARE]YOU'RE THE TOP, GIRLS For the most part, Joyce, a working class Englishwoman in Ipswich is not a sympathetic or likeable person: She is annoyed by her 16-year-old daughter Angie (who admitte…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:37AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 19, 2014
TAYLOR-MADE When a visiting dance company plays Los Angeles, it usually offers pieces which cover both the old and the new. And so it is with Paul Taylor, who presented last weekend at the C…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 15, 2014
EVERYTHING NEEDS A RETOUCH 30-year-old Jess is a mess. A New York-based dotcom genius, Jess is fraught with low self-esteem, making her an overweight, smelly, anti-social, stressed-out, aggr…
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