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Theater Review: LEOPOLDSTADT (Writers Theatre / Glencoe, Chicagoland)
THE GHOSTS IN THE FAMILY TREE Tom Stoppard’s final play is as intellectually dazzling as it is emotionally devastating “Barbarism will not be eradicated by culture.” That line, spoken midway through Leopoldstadt, the final masterpiece by Tom Stoppard—one of the greatest playwrights of his, or any, generation—made my stomach do a flip. Merely one of…
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Theater Review: BAD BOOKS (Gloucester Stage Co. / MA)
TO BAN OR NOT TO BAN Who decides what children are allowed to read? Playwrights are among the many who are struggling to reconcile the escalating conflicts among different factions of our society. Huntington Theatre’s Eureka Day portrays the executive board of a progressive private school at odds with itself when a mumps outbreak pits…
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Theater Review: DAY AFTER DAY (THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF DORIS DAY) (The Broadwater Second Stage / Hollywood Fringe)
CALAMITY JANE MEETS LAS VEGAS A charming tribute delivers plenty of Doris Day favorites, even if the biography occasionally takes a back seat Day After Day (The Life and Music of Doris Day) is like a slick—very slick—lounge act, the type you’d expect to see during Vegas’s heyday. Penned by Tony Santamauro, with Christy Mauro-Cohen…
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Concert Review: BOCCHERINI & RACHMANINOFF (Pacific Symphony / Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall / Costa Mesa)
FROM STAGE TO SOUL Valentina Peleggi leads an evening that journeys from operatic spectacle to intimate confession Valentina Peleggi conducts opera for a living. She built her reputation in the pit, leading Rossini and Verdi in houses from Trieste to Seattle, and she walked onto the Segerstrom stage Friday carrying that instinct with her. The…
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News: THOR STEINGRABER TO LEAD NEWLY REBRANDED VIVO PERFORMING ARTS, BOSTON
FROM THE SORAYA TO BOSTON: THOR STEINGRABER’S NEXT ACT After transforming The Soraya at California State University, Northridge into one of the nation’s most adventurous and respected presenting organizations, Thor Steingraber is heading east. For Boston, it represents an exciting new beginning. For Los Angeles, it is the departure of one of the region’s most…
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Off-Broadway Review: FEAR & WONDER (Flux Theatre Ensemble / A.R.T./NY Theaters)
FAITH, HOPE, AND QUEERITY: AMEN TO THAT Flux Theatre Ensemble finds grace where religion and identity collide One of the great joys of theatergoing in New York City is discovering the countless small companies producing work that rivals established organizations. Add Flux Theatre Ensemble to that list. Its current production, Fear & Wonder, is ambitious,…
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Film Review: LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS (directed by Leela Varghese and Emma Hough Hobbs)
AN OUT OF THIS WORLD ADVENTURE IN THE CARTOONIVERSE Some time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (one that’s pointedly pronounced GAY-laxy in this case), there lived a lesbian princess prone to crying floods of tears and full of fears. It didn’t help her low self-esteem that her girlfriend, Kiki, suddenly broke up with…
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Theater Review: ANASTASIA (La Mirada Theatre)
WHAT THE MUSIC BOX REMEMBERS A lavish production overcomes a book that never fully solves its own mystery A music box opens. A grandmother sings a lullaby to a five-year-old girl who will spend the evening trying to remember it. That is the show in miniature. Everything that follows turns on whether the memory is…
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Comedy Review: CLUB CLOWN (Hollywood Fringe Festival / The Broadwater Main Stage)
SEND IN THE CLOWNS. ALL OF THEM. Will Thomas McFadden assembles a joyful showcase of clowning talent and comic invention Will Thomas McFadden has created a Jackson Pollock experience, only with clowns. (Really, talented clowns.) McFadden has gathered at the Broadwater Main Stage a kaleidoscope of the city’s top chuckle-creators for nightly romps. The clowning…
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Theater Review: SOMETHING SPOOKY (Hollywood Fringe Festival / Broadwater Studio)
GHOSTS WITH HEARTBEATS Jon Schnitzer finds warmth and wonder beneath the bumps in the night Something Spooky, written and performed by Jon Schnitzer, is more about heart than haunting. Yes, there are strange goings-on, but the “investigation,” while focusing on things that go bump in the night, uncovers the spirit of an altogether different sort:…
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Event Coverage: BUBBLING BROWN SUGAR 50TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT (Amas Musical Theatre 58th Anniversary Gala Event)
BUBBLING OVER WITH NOSTALGIA Amas celebrates a milestone with a joyful reminder of the music that put the company on the map Amas Musical Theatre sure knows how to throw a party. Held in a penthouse with a wraparound terrace, the company’s 58th Anniversary Gala Benefit found guests happily mingling over hors d’oeuvres, conversation, and…
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Dance Review: ESCAPE (DIAVOLO / Los Angeles)
DEFYING GRAVITY, DEPENDING ON TRUST DIAVOLO’s acrobatic spectacle turns movement, risk and collaboration into something exhilaratingly human DIAVOLO is currently presenting ESCAPE, a visceral, intimate work following 22 remarkably agile performers as they struggle to break free from a chaotic world. Set to music by Harry Styles, Pink Floyd and Alicia Keys, the production combines gravity-defying…
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Comedy Review: PIVOTAL NOMAD (Hollywood Fringe Festival / Broadwater Studio)
A FREQUENT FLYER OF FUNNY Mike Blaha’s globe-trotting tales land more often than they miss Mike Blaha is a tall tumbler of funny. His show, Pivotal Nomad at the Broadwater Studio, starts with a blast as he relates doing stand-up around the world while pondering whether it’s time to click those ruby loafers three times…
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Theater Review: ALANIS MORISSETTE’S JAGGED LITTLE PILL: THE MUSICAL (Center REP / Lesher Center for the Arts / Walnut Creek)
YOU LEARN… OR YOU DON’T The songs still hit hard, but the family drama built around them feels overly familiar More often than not, as a critic, I like to go into a show cold, without many expectations. Given that Jagged Little Pill is built around Alanis Morissette’s landmark 1995 album, I assumed it might…
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Theater Review: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
LOVE ON THE RANGE, PAIN ON THE HORIZON A beautiful musical framework strengthens a stage adaptation that never quite resolves its competing impulses In 1997, a short story from Pulitzer winner Annie Proulx appeared in the pages of The New Yorker. Beginning in the 1960s in Wyoming, it was a restrained yet heartbreaking tale of…
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Dance Review: EUGENE ONEGIN (Joffrey Ballet)
FROM PAGE TO PAS DE DEUX Possokhov’s adaptation captures Pushkin’s aching tale of missed chances and irreversible choices Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin is so deeply embedded in Russian culture that generations of schoolchildren have memorized passages from it. Yet familiarity is no guarantee against heartbreak. Yuri Possokhov‘s ballet adaptation—a co-production with San Francisco Ballet now…
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Theater Review: LOVE JOY RESISTANCE (Deeply Rooted Dance Theatre, Auditorium Theatre Chicago)
THIRTY YEARS DEEP, STILL REACHING HIGHER Deeply Rooted celebrates its past while boldly pointing toward the future Deeply Rooted Dance Theatre (DRDT) initiated its hard-fought existence exactly thirty years ago when it was a small company intent on celebrating the unique cultural contributions of Black America through dance. Now, three decades later, its success allows…
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Theater Review: ANTIGONE (Promethean Theatre Ensemble / The Den Theatre / Chicago)
THE TRAGEDY’S THE THING A few baffling choices can’t derail the explosive clash at the heart of Anouilh’s classic There are a number of missteps in this production of Anouilh’s Antigone, presented by the Promethean ensemble at The Den Theatre. Fortunately for the show, they’re almost entirely confined to the relatively unimportant parts. Jean Anouilh’s…
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Dance Review: SPECTACULAR BALANCHINE! (American Contemporary Ballet / Los Angeles)
BALANCHINE IN A BOX ACB proves intimacy can be both an asset and a liability George Balanchine said he needed nothing but a stage, some light, and dancers. He also had the New York City Ballet, a full orchestra, and the State Theater. He had, more to the point, spent forty years teaching Americans what…
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Off-Broadway Review: BLOOMING IN DRY SEASON (Woodie King Jr.’s New Federal Theatre & North Carolina Black Repertory Company / WP Theater)
A CALYPSO OF CLASHING DREAMS A richly acted Caribbean family drama flourishes despite a few overgrown passages There’s much that can happen within the confines of a thirty-year marriage. Struggles, triumphs and everything in between that a man and woman can weather, based on their vows before God and their love for each other. It’s…
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