Wednesday, October 12, 2011
A WILD WEST PARTY IN CULVER CITY The Rude Mechs’ I’ve Never Been So Happy works overtime to please. This Western extravaganza spills into the Kirk Douglas Theater’s lobby for an intera…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:25PMWednesday, October 5, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011
DOING A DIFFICULT PLAY RIGHT Tackling William Shakespeare’s late play Cymbeline is no small feat, but Fiasco Theater makes the challenge deceptively simple and positively enchanting. With …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:15AMThursday, September 29, 2011
WHO’S AFRAID OF ADAPTING VIRGINIA WOOLF? Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway beautifully intertwines the inner and outer worlds of her characters, seamlessly sweeping from description to dial…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:17AMWednesday, September 28, 2011
SHINES BRIGHT BUT GOES DIM In Michael West’s Dublin by Lamplight, a community theater’s idealistic mission to establish an “Irish National Theatre of Ireland” crosses commedia style …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:36PMSunday, September 25, 2011
THE ETERNALLY UNMISSABLE SHOW An alluring voice reverberates across the intimate, pitch black theater. This sultry sound is the product of a mysterious Z chromosome, the audience is informed…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:38AMSaturday, September 17, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
WHAT’S WRONG? IT’S ALL RIGHT In thousands of YouTube videos, out-and-proud adults tell marginalized queer youth that life will get better. Yet the “It Gets Better” campaign a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:19PMThursday, September 15, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
A NEARLY MAGICAL EVENING News reporters ask one passerby after another, “Where were you when the Moon fell?” Yet the Moon has not fallen. She perches on a white chiffon-covered platform,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:46PMFriday, September 9, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
The Trojan women are not hysterical. With the exception of Kassandra who is blessed (and cursed) with foresight, these women are not mad. The clean and classical lines of SITI Company’…
SOURCE: Compositions on Theater at 09:36PMA COMEDY OF EXCELLENCE Cue the epic battle underscoring, full orchestra and chorus. A lanky gaoler lopes onstage, indicates a prisoner’s head, clumsily hoists an ax from the prop box, and …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:00PMSunday, September 4, 2011
In my summer of excessive theatergoing, I have learned a few things about my theatrical tastes. Specifically: I am not in love with the genre of musical theater as I once thought I was. (Ga…
SOURCE: Compositions on Theater at 02:58AMSaturday, September 3, 2011
A PATCHWORK OF THE PERSONAL AND POLITICAL My Name is Rachel Corrie is a solo show comprised of a patchwork of actual e-mails and diary entries by a young female activist in Gaza who was trag…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:44PMSunday, August 28, 2011
WHAT ARE ANY OF US BUT A COLLECTION OF STORIES? Collaboraction’s 1001 spins the audience into a delightful vertigo. This whirling postmodern adaptation of The Arabian Nights collapses time…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:09AMFOR THOSE WHO LIKE TO WATCH The rumblings of the elevated train beside Steep Theatre are chillingly atmospheric for the Midwest premiere of Simon Stephens’ Pornography. After all, this col…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:00AMFriday, August 26, 2011
Senior prom is not likely to be a favorite memory for most hipsters. After all, prom represents the pinnacle of conformity to high school culture. The school year builds up to this overblown…
SOURCE: Compositions on Theater at 12:35AMMonday, August 22, 2011
I caught the last performance of Steve Yockey’s Heavier than … at Boston Court today. While production values were high, the script and lead performances were disappointing. Trut…
SOURCE: Compositions on Theater at 01:07AMSunday, August 21, 2011
CARLO COLLODI’S CLASSIC TALE COMES TO LIFE At the heart of Chicago’s Navy Pier lies the stunning Chicago Shakespeare Theater. On a recent Wednesday morning, this 500-seat space was packe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:41AMFriday, August 19, 2011
IN THE BEGINNING, IT WAS EVEN GREASIER Apparently Los Angeles is not the only city prone to over-praise its local theater. American Theater Company’s The Original Grease has been receiving…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:41PMThursday, August 18, 2011
