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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Theater Review: HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY AND NEVER BE FOUND (L.A. " Pasadena) by Tony Frankel

DISAPPEARANCE ACT After the opening night performance of Fin Kennedy's existential and enigmatic drama How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found, someone remarked that, while film is ab…

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Monday, May 2, 2011

Theater Review: UNSCRIPTED REP by Impro Theater (L.A. " West Los Angeles) by Tony Frankel

MASTERS OF AUTOSCHEDIASM I was so blown away by Impro Theatre'sÂ Shakespeare Unscripted that I had to check out Unscripted Rep at the Odyssey, where the inimitable company is having fun in…

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Saturday, April 30, 2011

Theater Review: THE CHINESE MASSACRE (ANNOTATED) (L.A. " Atwater Village) by Tony Frankel

THE WILD, WILD BRECHTIAN WEST The Chinese Massacre (Annotated), Tom Jacobson's rousing new play, is like a fun day at Disneyland. Jacobson chronicles the 1871 lynching of 18 Chinese men by a…

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Theater Review: THE BOY IN THE BATHROOM (Orange County) by Tony Frankel

A SHOW IN HOT WATER The Chance Theater is the best and most enterprising small theatre in Orange County; under the guidance of managing director Casey Long and co-founder and current artisti…

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Friday, April 29, 2011

Theater Review: BURN THE FLOOR (L.A. " Hollywood) by Tony Frankel

FOXY TROT There are three reasons to attend Burn the Floor " the heart-pounding Ballroom Dance Sextravaganza now throbbing and thumping on the boards at the Pantages: one, the sexiest bodies…

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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Theater Review: I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER (L.A. " Hollywood) by Tony Frankel

I SING THE THEATRE ELECTRIC Any mental notes I had regarding I Never Sang For My Father at The McCadden Place Theatre disappeared just after curtain call. I was haunted by thoughts of my own…

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Theater Review: LITTLE ME (L.A. " Glendale) by Tony Frankel

HOW THE HELL DO THEY DO IT? Ah, celebrity. If you think that the headlining of television stars in Broadway musicals is a new phenomenon, check out the action in the early 1960s: brassy redh…

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Theater Review: A WEEKEND WITH PABLO PICASSO (L.A. " Downtown) by Tony Frankel

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…

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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Los Angeles Theater Review: THE CHAIRS, ENDGAME, Existentialism, and the Theater of the Absurd by Tony Frankel

WHAT AN ABSURD WEEKEND: EXISTENTIALISM 101 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 despai…

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Theater Review: THE TEMPERAMENTALS by Jon Marans (Hollywood) by Tony Frankel

NOT SO WILD ABOUT HARRY Real-life gay activist Harry Hay and the West Coast Premiere of The Temperamentals — a play based on his story — have much in common: fascinating but pecu…

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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Theater Review: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (L.A. " Santa Monica) by Tony Frankel

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 …

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Theater Review: STANDING ON CEREMONY: THE GAY MARRIAGE PLAYS (L.A. " Hollywood) by Tony Frankel

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 …

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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Theater Review: THE ALL NIGHT STRUT (L.A.: North Hollywood) by Tony Frankel

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 …

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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Theater Review: A RAISIN IN THE SUN by Lorraine Hansberry, directed by Phylicia Rashad (Los Angeles) by Tony Frankel

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 h…

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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Theater Review: SUMMER OF LOVE by Roger Bean (Long Beach) by Tony Frankel

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 gu…

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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Theater Review: BONDED by Donald Jolly (Los Angeles) by Tony Frankel

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 …

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Saturday, April 2, 2011

Theater Review: RE-ANIMATORâ„¢ THE MUSICAL (Hollywood) by Tony Frankel

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 cu…

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Theater Review: PRIVATE LIVES by Noel Coward (Laguna Beach) by Tony Frankel

COWARD ON THE BEACH NoÃ«l 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 contentio…

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Saturday, March 12, 2011

'TIL DEATH DO US PART: LATE NIGHT CATECHISM 3 by Maripat Donovan " Carrie Hamilton Theatre at The Pasadena Playhouse " Los Angeles (Pasadena) Theater Review by Tony Frankel

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…

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