by Jordan Young | Mar 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
Timing is everything, and the time is now for plays and films about women of substance and worth. Anna Ziegler’s “Photograph 51” (through today at South Coast Repertory) is just such a play, about a scientist named Rosalind Franklin, who played a major albeit little...
by Jordan Young | Mar 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Combine Bombay and Hollywood and you get Bollywood—the incredibly prolific Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai that produces nearly 2,000 feature films a year. The cinema’s hottest byproduct may be Bollywood Dance—a mash-up of styles including belly-dancing,...
by Jordan Young | Feb 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
If you’re as passionate about live theatre as I am, I urge you to catch August Wilson’s “Two Trains Running” at the Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles—whether the trains are running or not. Yes, it’s black history month, but this installment in the playwright’s Pulitzer...
by Jordan Young | Feb 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
I like to write about shows people can see. This post is the exception, although you might take a chance and show up at Fullerton’s STAGEStheatre this weekend, hoping for no-shows. Their production of Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Nile” (through Feb. 10) is such a...
by Jordan Young | Jan 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
Klezmer, that uplifting genre of rhythm known variously as Jewish jazz, Jewish party music and Jewish soul music, is rarely heard live in Orange County. That alone is reason enough to mark “In the Fiddler’s House” (Thursday night at Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert...
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