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Theater Review: KEERAH (Definition Theatre / Chicago)
KEERAH’S WAYWARD WANDERINGS: DON’T LOOK BACK—OR DO An ambitious meta-theatrical drama of love and loss boasts terrific performances but struggles to find its focus with too many detours There are many things to recommend about Netta Walker‘s new play Keerah, her first, but director McKenzie Chinn has yet to shape its intriguing ideas into a…
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Concert Review: STING 3.0 (Wolf Trap / Virginia)
COLD RAIN, HOT CLASSICS Sting ignites Wolf Trap’s summer season Sting opened the summer season with a 3-night stay at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap. On Friday, May 22, his performance easily overcame the evening’s cold and rain. If the weather threatened to dampen spirits, Sting’s two-hour Sting 3.0 set quickly warmed the crowd….
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Off-Broadway Review: ||: GIRLS :||: CHANCE :||: MUSIC :|| (Vineyard Theatre)
JANGLED JAM SESSION This coming-of-age ensemble never quite finds its rhythm In an age where most pre-teens and teens have the world in the palm of their hand via their smartphone, growing up happens faster than ever. Such speed may have benefited ||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :|| at the Vineyard Theatre, which tells…
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Theater Review: HELL’S KITCHEN (North American Tour at Hollywood Pantages)
EMPIRE STATE OF MIND A rare jukebox musical that finds fresh life by letting the songs tell the story A jukebox musical is an inheritance. Someone else wrote the songs, lived the life, banked the meaning, and the show arrives to spend it. Most of them spend it badly, doling out hits like an allowance…
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Theater Review: THE EMPORIUM (Classic Stage Company / Off-Broadway)
SHOPPING FOR MEANING Thornton Wilder’s long-lost play arrives decades late, still reaching for something just beyond its grasp Seventy-five years is a long time to wait for a world premiere. But that is precisely the circumstance surrounding The Emporium, Thornton Wilder’s long-unfinished play, now receiving its New York debut at Classic Stage Company—and the wait,…
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Theater Review: ALWAYS…PATSY CLINE (American Blues Theater / Chicago)
CRAZY FOR PATSY A warm-hearted tribute lets Patsy Cline’s music do most of the talking American Blues Theater closes out its 40th season with a rather left-field choice: the 1988 revue Always…Patsy Cline, created by Ted Swindley. Covering the career of country music legend—scratch that—music legend Patsy Cline, this is an odd but crowd-pleasing bio-musical,…
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Theater Review: PRIMARY TRUST (Mark Taper Forum / Los Angeles)
SLIGHTLY TOO BIG FOR HIS WORLD Eboni Booth’s Pulitzer-winning drama offers comfort, compassion, and just enough unease beneath the surface A bell rings before the lights come up. Out of the dark rises Cranberry, New York, a fictional suburb of Rochester built at the size of a model train layout: a church, a bowling alley,…
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Off-Broadway Review: WELL, I’LL LET YOU GO (Studio Seaview)
LETTING GO, HOLDING ON A beautifully observed portrait of grief anchored by Quincy Tyler Bernstine’s extraordinary performance If only someone would paint a portrait of Quincy Tyler Bernstine‘s grief-stricken face. And not just any artist. I mean an experienced portraitist who can capture the profound depth and complexity of her astonishing performance in Well, I’ll…
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Theater Review: MY HOME ON THE MOON (CHUANG Stage / Boston)
HOME IS WHERE THE PHO IS Looking for a real life amidst the demands of AI Directed by cara hinh and written by Minna Lee, this East Coast premiere is alternately hilarious and joyous and, at other times, a sobering and touching look at the effects of gentrification, the threats of AI, and the ongoing…
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Theater Review: OTHELLO (Shakespeare Theatre Company / Washington, DC)
IAGO’S GAME A terrifyingly gripping production driven by a mesmerizing villain and a devastating descent into jealousy Who can resist a good villain? Shakespeare Theatre Company’s current rendition of Othello is a bone-chilling, goosebump-worthy success, largely due to the Bard’s poetry and the acting chops of Ben Turner, who plays the antagonist Iago. Although Wendell…
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Cabaret Review: 54 SINGS THE SECOND BARBRA STREISAND ALBUM (54 Below / New York)
SECOND HELPINGS OF STREISAND A talented roster of singers at 54 Below revisit an early Streisand classic with style, affection, and plenty of bonus treats “My new album is called The Second Barbra Streisand Album because that’s just what it is. Why should I give it some fancy name that no one remembers anyway?” That’s…
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Theater Review: AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ (Ebony Rep / Los Angeles)
THE JOINT IS JUMPIN’, IT’S REALLY JUMPIN’ Ebony Rep finds the joy, sorrow, and swing hidden inside Fats Waller’s enduring revue Ain’t Misbehavin’ does not tell the story of Fats Waller’s life. It does something trickier. Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby Jr. built the 1978 revue from the Waller repertoire: the novelty numbers, the double…
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Off-Broadway Review: THE MAIDS (St. Ann’s Warehouse / Brooklyn)
MIRROR, MIRROR, ON THE WALL Kip Williams delivers a visually stunning assault on the senses, even when the drama struggles to keep pace A co-production with London’s Donmar Warehouse, The Maids arrives at St. Ann’s Warehouse in a blistering new adaptation written and directed by Kip Williams, closing out the season with a production as…
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Theater Review: AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (TimeLine Theatre / Chicago)
TRUTH, CONSEQUENCES, AND CONTAMINATED WATER A superb production of Ibsen’s classic finds unsettling echoes in the present day There are plays that endure because their themes and characters are universal, allowing them to be reinterpreted for different eras, locations, and so on—the oeuvre of a certain bard from Stratford-upon-Avon comes to mind. And then there…
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Theater Review: THE SOUND OF MUSIC (Civic Theatre / Broadway in San Diego)
THE HILLS ARE ALIVE AND WELL This polished national tour reminds audiences why the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic still resonates The national touring production of The Sound of Music is playing through May 31 at the Civic Theatre, and what a joy it is! Name your pleasure—brilliant singing, dancing, or acting—and it’s served up with…
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Off-Broadway Review: HEATED RIVALRY: THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY (6th Floor Theater at The Culture Club)
PUCK BUNNIES AND POWER PLAYS Knowing exactly who it’s playing to, this gleefully ridiculous send-up shoots and scores There are fandoms, and then there are fandoms. The kind that inspires message boards, fan fiction, watch parties, and now, apparently, full-blown musical theater parodies. Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody understands exactly who its audience is,…
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Theater Review: LE BAL (Trap Door Theatre / Chicago)
DANCING THROUGH THE DECADES A mesmerizing theatrical collage that rewards surrender over analysis One never quite knows what to expect from the good folks at Trap Door Theatre, and I’m sure they wouldn’t want it any other way. The company restricts itself to furiously political works from lesser-known authors; they have a fondness for the…
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Theater Review: OEDIPUS EL REY (Huntington Theatre Company / Boston)
Oedipus El Rey, playwright Luis Alfaro’s reimagining of the Greek myth, transforms the familiar tale of fate and tragedy into an urban contemporary story about incarceration, identity, and the possibility of starting over. The premise remains the same—a child fated to kill his father and marry his mother—but Alfaro uses the myth to explore modern…
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Theater Review: ANTIGONE (Antaeus Theatre Company / Glendale)
PULLED OUT OF MYTH AND INTO THE HEADLINES Kenneth Cavander relocates Thebes to a near-future America, and something is lost in the move I first read Antigone in a basement college classroom in the fall of 1984, the week the polls turned against Walter Mondale. Kreon sounded like the calm voice on the evening news…
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Theater Review: THEATER OF THE MIND (Goodman Theatre at the Reid Murdoch Building)
A THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE FOR THE SCIENCE-MINDED Theater of the Mind created by David Byrne and Mala Gaonkar and directed by Andrew Scoville is an interactive neuroscience experiment tied together with storytelling that takes you inside the mind of an audience surrogate, David, who I assume is based on the creator. We begin as guests at…
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