Sunday, October 2, 2011
A PALE SHADE OF RED The closing stage picture in John Logan's 2010 Tony-winning Red at the Goodman is about as thrilling and breathtaking as theatre gets: as Abstract Expressionist painter M…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2011
FORGIVE AND FORGET The Amish people of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania taught the world a sobering lesson in 2006 when they instantly forgave the man who murdered five girls in their one-room sch…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2011
GHOST LIGHT LEAVES US IN THE DARK Assassin Dan White ensured Harvey Milk's legacy when he shot the openly gay San Francisco politician. The gay community continues to hold Milk as a martyr t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:52AM[SHARE]LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST, FOUND, LOST, LOST, AND FOUND I'm not so sure that this William Shakespeare has a future as a playwright. Oh, the man can write, but his newest play, Love's Labor's Lost …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:28AM[SHARE]Monday, September 12, 2011
GREAT CAESAR'S GHOST Banners of slain leaders in world history, made to look as though they were hastily and inexpensively painted, chillingly greet us at the entrance to the New Theatre at …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:32PM[SHARE]AMBIGUITY WITH PURPOSE If you read the spiritual/psychotherapeutic tome A Course In Miracles, it states that miracles occur as a result of a shift in perception; that meaning lies not in the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:34PM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2011
A MISSED OPPORTUNITY We learn very little about the history of the African Company (the world's first known African-American theater company) and even less about Richard III in The African C…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:46PM[SHARE]Monday, September 5, 2011
DROOPING MAGNOLIAS One of six female denizens at a rural beauty salon in Louisiana states that, from the Southern male's point of view, "You either shoot it, stuff it or marry it." Well, tha…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:08AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 3, 2011
AN UGLY DUCKLING OF A MUSICAL In Stephen Schwartz' musical My Fairytale, now receiving its American premiere at PCPA in Solvang, well-known storyteller Hans Christian Anderson has an idea fo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:39PM[SHARE]Friday, September 2, 2011
THE ONLY THING THAT MAY NEED A CHANGE IS THE TITLE We hear that that the only thing constant is change, yet we struggle against change, we fight against change, and some are even willing to …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2011
AN OUNCE OF MISSTEPS IS WORTH THIS POUND OF FLESH Before you run off to see The Porters of Hellsgate production of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice " and I surely hope that you d…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:32PM[SHARE]THANKS FOR THE MEMORY Occasionally, I attend theater with no intention of reviewing a show, but afterwards my spirit is so refreshed by an uplifting and inspiring experience that an urgent p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2011
I HAD A GAY OLD TIME A letter to Sandra Bernhard: Dear Sandy: Oh my God, it thrilled me to no end when I was assigned to review your latest show at REDCAT: Sandra Bernhard: I Love Being Me, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2011
NO TROUBLE HERE Although the run of Pacific Opera Project's Trouble in Tahiti was two days long, I had to check out this new company whose mission it is to use local talent and bring afforda…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2011
DOG GONE Having immersed myself in forty Fringe shows this year, I have become highly suspect of those shows that bounce from Fringe to Fringe across the land, cross-promoting like oversexed…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 10, 2011
WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT? At the top of Melissa James Gibson's This, five urbanite thirty-somethings take part in an innocent parlor game that inadvertently goes awry for one of them: an unsusp…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 7, 2011
NEVER FORGET Writer/performer Tom Dugan's solo show Nazi Hunter " Simon Wiesenthal capitalizes on the strengths of the famous Nazi hunter " his resilience, tenacity and humor " but largely o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:20PM[SHARE]THE FANTASY FIZZLES Since 1933, Pageant of the Masters has been a Southern California must-see for tourists and locals alike. The professionalism with which they stage tableaux vivants (l…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:23AM[SHARE]A LIBERTY BELL OF A SHOW STILL RINGS TRUE Strength. Courage. Character. Fortitude. These are traits that have inspired Americans, both in our leaders and in folklore. The 1968 musical 1776, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:49AM[SHARE]THE SAME OLD RHYME I herewith invite you to check out The Troubies (especially those who may call yourselves Newbies). Though their antics are puerile You'll smile for a while With this asso…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 6, 2011
MARK ME DOWN AS MILD ABOUT HARRY What's a critic to do when he desperately wishes to support Los Angeles theatre, but also desires to hold theatre to a higher level? During the intermission …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 28, 2011
I'M IN THE NUDE FOR LOVE The main reason that the Groundlings company remains L.A.'s number one improv training and performance space is their emphasis on character work. When actors come to…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:18PM[SHARE]THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS If there were an award for "The Best Idea for a Theatrical Entertainment," the winner surely would be Celebrity Autobiography, in which celebrities read the actual mem…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:53PM[SHARE]LOW PLATELETS In his vision of a new translation of Frederico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding, director Jon Lawrence Rivera offers a diverse cast and updates the original 1933 setting in Spain …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:33PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 24, 2011
A TERRIFIC STORY AND EVEN BETTER MAGIC SHOW; BUT THE TRICK IS BEING ABLE TO SEE IT Suave and debonair Guy Hollingworth is not only a full-time British barrister (specializing in intellectual…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:06AM[SHARE]WHEN GOOD ENOUGH IS NOT ENOUGH The Los Angeles Times needs to be a player on the world stage and therefore assigns Critic-at-Large Charles McNulty to review plays in NYC and London. While th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 17, 2011
HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL REVIEWS 2011 [Editor's Note:Â Our either amazing or insane (you decide) theater correspondent Tony Frankel saw what is believed to be in the area of 40 Fringe sh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:05AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 16, 2011
THEY'VE GOT MAGIC TO DO It simply cannot be avoided: with Fun Family Festival of Tragedy, L'Enfant Terrible, a startlingly brilliant new theatre company, is poised and ready to take over the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:03PM[SHARE]YOU WILL LIKE IT VERY MUCH INDEED Credit adapter and director Tony Tanner for As You Like It " The Musical; he freely adapted Shakespeare's Forest of Arden comedy into a text that contains t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:37PM[SHARE]A PLAY THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN VISITED IN THE FIRST PLACE I was already angry after the opening of Revisiting Wildfire at the Odyssey Theatre (bad theatre will do that to you) when some wr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 14, 2011
PAST TO THE FUTURE To be honest, I was not a fan of Rogue Artist Ensemble's Hyperbole at [inside] The Ford last year. Their current work, D is for Dog, clearly elucidates what was lacking in…
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