by Jordan Young | Feb 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
Those of us who revere Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sometimes wish they had made feature films during the silent era. While they didn’t do one until sound came in (with their voices perfectly suiting their characters), unlike the comedy superstars of the day, they...
by Jordan Young | Jan 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
What better time to have a play by the daughter of an immigrant—coincidental though the timing may be—on one of So Cal’s top stages, especially when it’s a compelling, heartfelt drama about lives of five women? When taken as a subtle protest against the misogynistic,...
by Jordan Young | Nov 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
There’s a tendency to tinker with the warhorses of musical theater and reinvent them for new audiences. But wiser heads prevailed with the revival of “Fiddler on the Roof” at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, which opened last weekend and continues through...
by Jordan Young | Nov 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Joan Rivers comes back to vibrant life in Daniel Goldstein’s “Joan” at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa (continuing in its world premiere through Nov 24.) Unlike “Funny Girl,” the focus of this non-musical drama is a woman’s lifelong aspiration to make audiences...
by Jordan Young | Oct 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
What kind of father sends his teenage daughter into the cellar of a spooky old house, late at night in the dead of winter, for a bottle of booze? The da in the first Irish-language horror film, naturally. “An Taibhse” (“The Ghost”) is set in post-famine Ireland,...
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