by Jordan Young | May 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
Best reason to get outta Dodge (and So Cal) this week I can think of is The San Francisco Silent Film Festival (www.silentfilm.org), returning May 5–11 to the Castro Theatre. And as changes are afoot at the Castro, with the venue being renovated for live events, it...
by Jordan Young | Mar 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
It’s not every day a director calls you with an invitation to see a new show. The director was Mark Travis and the show was called “A Bronx Tale,” starring a cast of one, a young actor I’d never heard of named Chazz Palminteri. I was knocked out by it. Here was a guy...
by Jordan Young | Feb 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
Not too sure about the so-called New Normal, but the new “Next to Normal,” at Anaheim’s intimate Chance Theater through Feb. 27, is a smash. Granted, a show about mental illness will not be everyone’s cuppa, and this Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning musical might hit...
by Jordan Young | Jan 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
While I’m waiting for live theater to come back to life I’m catching up on vintage films, and books about entertainment personalities of the past. And I have a lot of catching up to do, at the rate Kino Lorber and other companies are putting out Blu-ray releases....
by Jordan Young | Oct 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
Remember when actors were the special effects? The OC premiere of Dael Orlandersmith’s Yellowman (at the Chance Theater in Anaheim through Oct. 24) exemplifies what makes live theater so magical, at a pivotal time in this era of pandemic—the art of storytelling, a...
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