Tuesday, January 15, 2013
MULTI-DIMENSIONAL The virtuosic Fleur Elise Noble (performer, director, and set designer) constructs a world of artistic possibilities in 2 Dimensional Life of Her. Across a series of flat s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:39PMNOTHING HOLLOW ABOUT IT Is it possible for a person of color to have a “neutral narrative”: A story untainted by race or gender, disentangled from the ghosts of the past, unaffected by t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:34PMSunday, December 30, 2012
2012 has been a year of travel and transition. When compiling my Best of 2012 list from the reviews I had written for L.A. Weekly and Stage and Cinema, not to mention the playbills I had acc…
SOURCE: Compositions on Theater at 10:17PMFriday, December 21, 2012
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
WORKING TOO HARD The actors mingle around onstage dressing room tables as the audience takes their seats. The stage manager (Rebecca McBee) calls cues from a corner upstage. Even the band, l…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AMFriday, December 14, 2012
JONESING FOR MORE PIG SHIT Early in terraNOVA Collective’s comic book adventure P.S. Jones and the Frozen City, the villainous Great Glass Spider spins out of the wall. The regal Sofia Jea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AMThursday, December 6, 2012
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
FRISK ME AGAIN The hubbub in the lobby of the Public Theater late last Friday night suggested we were in for a dynamic show. Frisk Me: The Songs of Max Vernon packed Joe’s Pub with one of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:14PMSunday, November 18, 2012
Saturday, November 17, 2012
HOT AUGUST STRINDBERG NIGHT St. Ann’s Warehouse inaugurates its new space with an often gripping production of Mies Julie, adapted to post-apartheid South Africa. A dense fog sweeps over t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:23PMSaturday, October 27, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
HOUSE NOT AT HOME IN THE THEATER My theatergoing companion left the Duke on 42nd Street last night with tears welling in her eyes. She spent much of the subway ride home taking deep breath…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:53PMMonday, October 22, 2012
Director/lyricist Lane Williamson and I have recently composed several songs for his upcoming production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest in Lancaster, CA. I had the pleasure to premiere …
SOURCE: Compositions on Theater at 10:42AMFriday, October 19, 2012
A POETIC BREAKUP The plot of writer/director Pascal Rambert’s play Love’s End is astoundingly simple. A long-term romantic relationship finally reaches a breaking point. The man confront…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:14PMThursday, October 18, 2012
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
DRINKS WITH A RAKE Find the nearest bottle of vodka and drink up. Ars Nova’s world premiere of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 – an electro-pop musicalization of a self-con…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:00PMEXTRAORDINARILY BEAUTIFUL PIGPEN PROJECT PigPen Theatre Co.’s The Old Man and the Old Moon is guaranteed to gently pluck at your heartstrings. An enchanting fable told through shadow pupp…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:21PMPINCHES GRINGOS! The aliens have arrived. Mexicans, that is. Fucking Mexicans. And fucking Nigerians. Small town Southern girl Tamara-Lee can’t seem to decide which she hates more. I Hate …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:22PMSunday, October 14, 2012
Friday, October 12, 2012
NORTH GOES SOUTH As a child, I flew to the stars with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince – a work of youthful wonder tinged with adult melancholy, loneliness, and wistful phil…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:23PMWednesday, October 3, 2012
COSPLAYING WITH THE BARD A delightful dash through Shakespearean tropes is now the two hours’ traffic of The Connelly Theater stage. Siblings separated in a tempest, long lost lovers, conj…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:44PMMonday, October 1, 2012
SHOUTING FOR THE MAJORITY In the wake of Occupy Wall Street and the rise of the 99%, Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 political drama An Enemy of the People crackles with contemporary relevance. Manhat…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:40PMFriday, September 28, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012
CHILLING BUT MADDENING We are bunkered down in a ratty East Village apartment: blood stains smeared across the walls and newspapers plastered over the windows so the sunlight seeps in with …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:00PMTuesday, September 25, 2012
