Colorful musical theater at its most interactive
Theater is immersion. So when some chump a few rows over is making moment-killing noises during a show — whether that’s pneumonic coughs or ill-timed whoops of praise — standard protocol is to give them the stink eye.
I have never known an exception to this rule. I like my theaters kept relatively silent, especially at [...]
Shakespeare’s classic gets better with each line
Performing Shakespeare is notoriously difficult to pull off — even more difficult than listening to it. So when the USC School of Theatre’s Masters of Fine Arts in Acting Program class of 2010 learned that it would be staging Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre as one of a series of three student performances, it must [...]
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Theater is definitely not entertainment for the everyday person that enjoys a good story. It’s more for an audience that appreciates the art of acting and enjoys a live performance, in addition to a good story. Unlike most untrained screen actors, theater actors have a deep love for the stage where they are able to [...]
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The year-old Urban Theatre Movement acting company debuts its first show, which sees the popular comic characters as teenagers.
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Waiting For Godot
A Noise Within
Length: 105 min.
Now playing through Jan. 24
Irish-themed show entertains with song and dance
Riverdance
Pantages Theatre
Length: 130 min.
Playing through Jan. 24
The Lovely Bones:
Peter Jackson helms his first project since 2005’s King Kong with this adaptation of Alice Sebold’s best-selling novel. Saoirse Ronan, fresh off her Oscar-nominated performance in Atonement, plays a murdered girl who attempts to communicate with her family from beyond the grave.
The Spy Next Door:
Borrowing its thematic elements from Vin Diesel’s 2005 Disney [...]
Despite worthy attempt, play falls short in flavor
“Have you eaten yet?” is the way the Chinese greet each other, and that is the way Gloria B (Esther Scott) is greeted by Richie Po (Dennis Dun) in the play Po Boy Tango, written by Kenneth Lin and presented by the East West Players at the David Henry Hwang Theater in Little Tokyo.
Forget that [...]
Grinch steals show, not holiday cheer, with humor
If Charles Dickens were writing today, he might have taken the easy way out and sent Scrooge to the Pantages Theatre for a heart-warming showing of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, which opened Saturday. It wouldn’t be much of a story, but at least Scrooge would be cured of his misanthropy [...]
Read the rest of this article »‘Fire’ leaves audience charred
Theater is at its worst when it is self-consciously moralistic. The second we feel like we’re being preached to, the experience is ruined.
Regrettably, such is the sorry case of Christopher Piehler’s The Triangle Factory Fire Project, which opened Nov. 5 at USC’s Bing Theatre. The show — the first of two shows this academic year [...]
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