Posts Tagged ‘la times’
Variety Lays off Chief Film and Theatre Critics
Yup. And on and on it goes.
Check out this story over at the LA Times. David Rooney, chief theatre critic for Variety and Todd McCarty, chief film critic are history. [...]
THE STORY OF MY LIFE: 100% Sweet
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Neil Bartram and Brian Hill’s 2009 chamber musical is a poignant two-hander exploring the joys and disappointments of a long-term friendship. Simplicity is the hallmark of this delicate gem, which [...]
MEN OF TORTUGA: 67% Sweet
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The loss of its host company with the closing of the Pasadena Playhouse threatened the show’s very opening, let alone Furious’ future, and seems to have cast a listless gloom [...]
BACKWARDS IN HIGH HEELS: 86% Sweet – UPDATED
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“Backwards in High Heels” has no great plot or momentum, but if you happen to be in the vicinity of Long Beach you might want to give this slight, modestly [...]
FORGIVENESS: 100% Sweet
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The human heart’s capacity to get past the atrocious sins of others in order to grant forgiveness is bracingly dramatized in stage and TV scribe David Schulner’s world premiere, packing [...]
LOBBY HERO: 100% Bittersweet – UPDATED
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There are no real heroes here, and no true villains either, just nimble moral equivocators who tap-dance their way through the ever-shifting rationales of Lonergan’s keenly observed social satire. [...]
THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL: 83% Sweet – UPDATED
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The problem may be one of taste, but it ties directly back to the compulsion to spill the guts theatrically. Finney’s staging of the abduction starts brilliantly, with a pair [...]
FENCES: 100% Sweet
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Robinson is riveting as the conflicted man whose fanciful storytelling and outward affection for Rose is in sharp contrast to the way he handles his self-professed responsibilities and the harsh [...]
THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES: 70% Sweet – UPDATED
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All right, given this impressive pedigree, what’s my beef? Well, beyond the play’s passé style, I have trouble with the workmanlike use of the symbolic roses that inspire the title [...]
“Elton John finally gets his own (‘homoerotic’) ballet”
Read this in the LA Times and, I dunno, all I keep thinking is, “Can you buy these things on Amazon? Where do I get one?”
I keep imagining Elton John [...]
