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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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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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Theater Review: ANDY WARHOL PRESENTS: THE COCAINE PLAY (Jackalope Theatre / Chicago)
FIFTEEN MINUTES FOREVER Terry Guest turns pop-art icons into a meditation on immortality I may have passed on the foil-lined photo booth—too Bug for me—on my way into Jackalope Theatre’s intimate performance space at The Broadway Armory, but its presence is merely the first indication of the imagination and inventiveness awaiting audiences in the world…
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Theater Review: PRIMARY TRUST (Center Theatre Group / Mark Taper Forum)
A COMMUNITY OF ONE Eboni Booth’s Pulitzer-winning drama finds theatrical poetry in loneliness and hope Primary Trust is the sort of play that reminds us why theater matters. I want to state this at the outset, to avoid any risk of it becoming entangled in the words that follow: If you are impassioned by theater—or…
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Theater Review: THE PIANO LESSON (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival / Center Valley, PA)
KEYS TO THE PAST Directed by James Ijames, August Wilson’s masterpiece resonates powerfully in an exceptional PSF production As the fourth installment in August Wilson‘s immense American Century Cycle, The Piano Lesson continues the playwright’s exploration of the Black American experience throughout the twentieth century. Set in Pittsburgh in 1936, Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama wrestles…
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Theater Review: CONTINUITY (Shotgun Players / Berkeley)
CLIMATE OF CONFUSION Bess Wohl’s Hollywood satire delivers ideas more successfully than laughs Nowadays everyone is aware of the climate crisis. We know about recycling, composting, and driving electric cars. If you are a successful filmmaker, you can make a movie about the effect on the environment. Directed by Emilie Whelan, Shotgun Players’ latest production…
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Theater Review: THE PHYSICISTS (The Actors’ Gang / Culver City)
MAD SCIENCE, SANELY STAGED Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Cold War satire still packs a comic sting The Actors’ Gang has been a pillar of L.A. theater since 1988, when they burst onto the scene with their staging of Freaks at the old Tiffany Theatre on Sunset Boulevard, a production heralded by a poster sketch of Shannon Holt…
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Theater Review: ON YOUR FEET! THE STORY OF EMILIO & GLORIA ESTEFAN (North Shore Music Theatre / Beverly, MA)
HIGH ENERGY AND HIGH HOPES Rhythm, resilience, and a lot of heart On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio & Gloria Estefan is far from groundbreaking theater, but it is certainly uplifting. Let’s face it: a jukebox musical about a successful female performer whose male partner is neither abusive, manipulative, nor adulterous is something worthy…
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Theater Preview: TWELVE HOURS WITH TRACY LETTS (Circle in the Square)
A DAY WITH TRACY LETTS Animus Theatre Company presents a marathon reading festival with an all-star cast to support Circle in the Square Theatre School For theater lovers, the chance to experience even one play by Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts is worth clearing an evening. Animus Theatre Company is asking audiences to clear an…
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Theater Review: FRUTOS DE LA MUERTE (Glass Half Full Theatre / Austin)
A TRIP WORTH TAKING A mushroom-fueled journey through family memory finds wisdom in the chaos If there’s ever a time to take mushrooms, it’s when your Tía offers them to you. “I feel like I’m disappearing,” Ixq’anil laments to her aunt, Adela. Worried for her future in America, she watches as I.C.E. and its supporters…
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Theater Review: DAMN YANKEES (Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre / Evanston)
WITH ITS BASES LOADED, THEO UBIQUE HITS ANOTHER GRAND SLAM A clever, heartfelt revival proves this Golden Age favorite still knows how to play ball There’s a bit of a curveball early in Theo Ubique’s sparkling revival of Damn Yankees, the classic 1955 musical from Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, with a book by George…
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