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Theater Review: THE WHITE CHIP (Marin Theatre / SF Bay Area)
SOBERING THOUGHTS A funny, affecting recovery comedy that lingers too long on relapse Kicking off its 60th season, Marin Theatre presents the Bay Area premiere of The White Chip: A Sobering Comedy of Errors. In the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous, there are various traditions in the process of recovery. A “white chip” (similar to a…
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Theater Review: THE PRODUCERS (Ogunquit Playhouse / Maine)
THE BEST FLOP MONEY CAN BUY Mel Brooks’s gloriously audacious musical remains impossible to kill Just as novelists love to write about writers and filmmakers love to make films about Hollywood, Broadway loves shows about Broadway and its people. According to The Producers, that includes lots of Jews, gay people, elderly women, and thieving, lying…
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Concert Preview: KUKIEL–LAMCELLARI–GLICKLICH PIANO TRIO (The Music Guild / Los Angeles)
A SEASON BEGINS IN THREES Three young musicians open the Music Guild season with Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, and Brahms The Music Guild opens its 82nd season on Monday, Sept. 14, with the Kukiel–Lamcellari–Glicklich Piano Trio, bringing together three accomplished young musicians: Los Angeles Philharmonic violinist Vivian Kukiel, cellist Jayden Lamcellari, and pianist Samuel Glicklich. The program,…
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Theater Review: THE ARSONISTS (Skylight Theatre / Los Angeles)
A MOST ACCOMMODATING DISASTER Frisch’s comedy leaves no one comfortably outside the joke Gottlieb Biedermann tells his wife and his maid that even if he had three spare beds standing empty, taking in a stranger would still be out of the question. He says this in one breath. In the next, he offers the stranger…
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Theater Review: SAFE HOUSE (Theatre Row / New York)
THE TROUBLE WITH PLAYING IT SAFE Fine performances keep an overloaded family drama on solid ground It is ironic how some wealthy folks convince themselves that they can trust luxurious bunkers with thick walls and armed guards to survive the collapse of society, without thinking that hired helpers are human. Even a modest, hidden bunker…
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Theater Review: MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM (A Noise Within / Pasadena)
THE BLUES COME WITH A PRICE Power, ownership, and exploitation run through a sharply realized production of August Wilson’s classic A stew uses whatever is in the house. Carrots. Potatoes. A piece of meat, if there is one. Maybe the marrow worked out of the bone. Then dinner ends. What remains sits in the pot,…
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Theater Review: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (National Tour / San Diego)
OLD-SCHOOL PHANTOM, FIRST-RATE RESULTS This return to Phantom’s original theatrical roots delivers spectacle, superb singing, and one nagging sound problem Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera was first published as a French newspaper serial from 1909 to 1910, after which Leroux compiled it into a popular novel. His inspiration was the famed Parisian opera…
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Theater Review: JOAN CRAWFORD GOES TO HELL (Hell in a Handbag / Chicago)
HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE JOAN CRAWFORD Four Joans, three Christinas, and a torrent of gags make this trip to hell devilishly funny Beginning her film career as a body double for Norma Shearer, the Hollywood star she went on to overshadow in the classic MGM comedy The Women (1939), Joan Crawford’s success owed as…
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Theater Review: SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE (Kokandy / Chicago)
KOKANDY GETS THE PICTURE A splendid revival turns this cranky critic into a dewy-eyed theatre kid again “Work is what you do for others, Liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.” In a sense, I guess it’s appropriate that Sunday in the Park with George, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Pulitzer-winning musical, should be staged…
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Music Preview: AMERICAN SOUND TAKES FLIGHT (MUSE/IQUE / Beverly Hills & Pasadena)
COPLAND, PRINCE, PARTON, AND PAUL SIMON? YES, PLEASE. MUSE/IQUE connects some unlikely musical dots, then open the doors at Ambassador Auditorium for a free season finale MUSE/IQUE has come up with one hell of a program for American Sound Takes Flight: From Aaron Copland to Paul Simon — Our Musical Pursuit of Happiness. Artistic and…
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Theater Review: COME FROM AWAY (Marriott Theatre / Lincolnshire, IL)
COME FROM AWAY GETS CLOSER AT MARRIOTT Marriott’s intimate in-the-round staging brings the audience directly into Gander’s remarkable story Twenty-five years ago on September 11, 38 commercial airline flights were diverted to a tiny Newfoundland town called Gander when U.S. airspace closed following the 9/11 attacks. Come From Away, the musical by Irene Sankoff and…
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Theater Review: PERICLES (Boston Court Pasadena)
PERICLES IS WORTH THE VOYAGE A questionable framing device doesn’t sink Boston Court’s lively take on Shakespeare’s rarely staged adventure The groundlings who attended William Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre back in 1608 (or 1619, hard to nail these dates down) would certainly have gotten their penny’s worth, as did the audience at the West…
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Theater Review: SHANE (City Lit Theater / Chicago)
CITY LIT SADDLES UP A WINNER A terrific central trio and striking stagecraft make Mark Pracht’s world-premiere adaptation a winner The venerable City Lit opens its 46th season with Shane, a world premiere from multi-hyphenate Mark Pracht. Based on the novel by Jack Schaefer, which was previously adapted into a highly regarded 1953 film with…
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Theater Preview: TAYLOR MAC AND MATT RAY: SONGS FROM BARK OF MILLIONS (ArtsEmerson / Boston)
BARKING UP THE RIGHT TREE Taylor Mac and Matt Ray dig into history for a two-hour explosion of music, theater, and drag Taylor Mac does not do small. The MacArthur-winning playwright, performer, singer-songwriter and professional button-pusher returns to Boston with composer and longtime collaborator Matt Ray for Songs from Bark of Millions, a two-hour concert…
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Theater Review: MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (Signature Theatre / Arlington, VA)
A MERRILY MARVELOUS REVIVAL Sondheim’s famously backward musical moves splendidly forward in Signature Theatre’s hands How do three talented, idealistic friends end up bitter, estranged from one another and far from the dreams of their youth? The reverse-chronology musical Merrily We Roll Along at Signature Theatre answers that question through glorious songs and electrifying performances….
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Music Preview: CAMERATA PACIFICA OPENS ITS 37TH SEASON
THREE GREAT PLAYERS, TWO MASTERPIECES, ONE TERRIFIC ENSEMBLE Camerata Pacifica opens its 37th season with a knockout pairing of Rachmaninoff and Schubert I saw Camerata Pacifica three times last season, and I’ll just say it: they’re the best chamber ensemble in Los Angeles. There are plenty of organizations that can assemble first-rate musicians and put…
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Theater Review: THEATRE PEOPLE, OR THE ANGEL NEXT DOOR (Scripps Ranch Theatre / San Diego)
A DEVILISHLY GOOD TIME WITH THE NOT-SO-ANGELIC Paul Slade Smith’s delightful farce earns hearty laughs from a terrific cast Playwright and actor Paul Slade Smith is on a winning streak. Besides starring in North Coast Rep’s Scapin earlier this year, all three of his plays have been produced by the combination of NCR and Scripps…
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HOW LOCAL PRODUCTION CREWS SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL THEATER AND LIVE EVENT PRODUCTIONS
Bringing a theater production, concert, corporate event, or live show to another country can attract people who have never seen the show before. I have seen how the excitement builds when the audience first steps onto the stage. It can also bring challenges that’re hard to deal with from far away. The people who are…
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FROM REHEARSAL TO OPENING NIGHT: MANAGING THE TECHNICAL SIDE OF A LIVE PERFORMANCE
From the audience, a live show is effortlessly enjoyable. Behind the scenes, it requires lighting, sound, scenery, video displays, props, performers, and more, all working together at a specific time to create the production. During rehearsals, these individual elements come together, and the production takes shape. It is during these times that the show’s elements…
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HOW NEW TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING STAGE DESIGN, LIGHTING, AND LIVE PERFORMANCE PRODUCTION
Live performance has always been an art form that balances creativity, timing, and technical expertise. What is changing is the breadth of tools that production teams can use. Stage designers can now combine physical scenery with large LED displays and video environments. Lighting systems can be triggered with far greater precision. Video, automation, tracking and…
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