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Friday, June 10, 2011

HD Live Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST: LIVE IN HD (“live” video presentation of the Broadway production) by Harvey Perr

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING BRIAN BEDFORD Lady Bracknell (arguably the greatest creation of Oscar Wilde’s surpassingly fertile comic imagination) is the aristocratic and imperious dowager …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:45AM

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Theater Review: JUAN AND JOHN (L.A. – Culver City) by Harvey Perr

THE EPIPHANIES THAT COME TO US AFTER BEING HIT IN THE HEAD BY A BASEBALL BAT Among the happiest of theatergoing experiences is entering the theater, without any expectations whatsoever, and,…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:12AM

Friday, May 20, 2011

Theater Review: FOUR CLOWNS and STANDING ON CEREMONY: THE GAY MARRIAGE PLAYS (L.A. – Hollywood) by Harvey Perr

ONCE-A-WEEK Monday nights at 8:00 p.m. at the L.A. Gay and Lebian Center’s Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center (The Renberg Theatre): If you’d like to take a pleasant leisurely …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:14PM

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Theater Review: John Fleck’s MAD WOMEN (L.A. – Los Feliz) by Harvey Perr

THE OBSESSIVE PURSUIT OF ARTISTS There are few things funnier than watching John Fleck, sweating and crazed, walk perilously close to the edge of a high cliff, teeter towards falling off, an…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:30PM

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Theater Review: KISS ME, KATE (L.A. – Westwood) by Harvey Perr

RECIPE FOR SUCCESS Here’s a mouth-watering recipe for making people happy: 1) Take a great musical. (Kiss Me, Kate will do. If you need to ask why, then I’ll tell you: It’s both a wond…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:06PM

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Theater Review: HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY AND NEVER BE FOUND (Pasadena Playhouse) by Harvey Perr

HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY AND BECOME A STAR If you lose your way trying to navigate the Kafkaesque journey Fin Kennedy wants to take us on in his startlingly original and thematically dens…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:26PM

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Theater Review: HOUSE OF THE RISING SON and THE CHINESE MASSACRE (ANNOTATED) by Tom Jacobson (L.A. – Atwater Village) by Harvey Perr

THE TALENTED MR. JACOBSON Tom Jacobson is nothing if not ambitious. He is not only the most prolific Los Angeles playwright of the moment, but he is the one, given the astonishing record of …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:43PM

Theater Review: THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE (L.A. – Glendale) by Harvey Perr

IN PRAISE OF ECCENTRICITIES It is not surprisng that Tennessee Williams preferred The Eccentricities of a Nightingale to Summer and Smoke. Freed of the conflict between Puritanism (repressed…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:23AM

Theater Review: GEORGE GERSHWIN ALONE (L.A. – Pasadena) by Harvey Perr

TIME SPENT WITH A MUSICAL GENIUS If ever a production fitted so perfectly within the walls of the elegant Pasadena Playhouse as George Gershwin Alone, I can’t imagine what it may have been…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:06AM

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Theater Reflections: DADDYO DIES WELL, bonded, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, GOD OF CARNAGE (all in Los Angeles) by Harvey Perr

A CONVERSATION between A REVIEWER WITH BATTLE FATIGUE and A REVIEWER WHO CONTINUES TO LOVE THE THEATER (A PLAYLET) BATTLE FATIGUE: I sometimes feel that I spend so much time in the theater t…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:48AM

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Theater Review: BURN THIS by Lanford Wilson (L.A. – Downtown) by Harvey Perr

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO LANFORD WILSON? The beautifully detailed lower Manhattan loft that Ralph Funicello has created – complete with fire escape and skylight, unfinished walls daubed w…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:18AM

Theater Review: THE ESCORT by Jane Anderson (L.A. – Westwood) by Harvey Perr

WHERE’S A TOUGH-MINDED AND PROLETARIAN WHORE WHEN YOU NEED ONE? The most interesting thing about Jane Anderson’s The Escort is the revelation that a Cadillac call girl takes on the attit…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM

Theater Review: THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN by Martin McDonagh (L.A. – Culver City) by Harvey Perr

DRUID’S EVER STURDY CRIPPLE Since I think that the Druid and Atlantic Theater Company production of Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan, under the sublime direction of Garry H…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:11AM

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Theater Review: Peter Brooks directs FRAGMENTS and THE GRAND INQUISITOR (Santa Monica) by Harvey Perr

PURITY IN THE THEATER: FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY Pure. Perfect. Impeccable. Mesmerizing. Exquisite. Hilarious. Work of Art. Take your pick. Any one of these – or all of them – aptly describ…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:04PM

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Theater Review: DEVIL’S ADVOCATE by Donald Freed (Los Angeles) by Harvey Perr

THE GENERAL AND THE ARCHBISHOP Gore Vidal wondered if the stupidest city in the world even deserved a play as radical as Donald Freed’s Devil’s Advocate. He certainly seemed, in a po…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:30PM

Theater Review: SMALL ENGINE REPAIR by John Pollono (Los Angeles) by Harvey Perr

THE VIRTUE OF SMALL ENGINES In the mood for a heavy dose of machismo? The kind where three old chums get together and talk about pussy and big tits and reminisce about the old days? Who say …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:41AM

Friday, March 11, 2011

MAKING THE BOYS a film by Crayton Robey – Movie Review by Harvey Perr

THE SAD LEGACY OF AN HISTORICAL MOMENT Making the Boys, the vigorous and absorbing new documentary, ostensibly about Mart Crowley and his ground-breaking The Boys in the Band, is, in truth, …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:57PM

Thursday, March 10, 2011

A HOUSE NOT MEANT TO STAND by Tennessee Williams – The Fountain Theatre – Los Angeles Theater Review by Harvey Perr

THE STURDIEST DILAPIDATED HOUSE IN TOWN When she enters her house, so badly in need of repair that it might as well be razed as restored, she walks with a strange somnambulistic slowness, on…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:55PM

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