by Jordan Young | Nov 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
“Black people don’t vote but they hold symbolic weight,” a mayoral candidate tells us at the outset of August Wilson’s “Radio Golf,” at A Noise Within (ANoiseWithin.org) in Pasadena through Nov. 13. The candidate, real estate developer Harmond Wilks (Christian...
by Jordan Young | Oct 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
From the moment an explosion interrupts the opening song in “Nina Simone: Four Women” at South Coast Repertory, you know this show is not going to be the usual theatrical experience. Christina Ham’s impressionistic musical drama about the ‘60s African...
by Jordan Young | Oct 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
At the suggestion of friend, I listened to the soundtrack of “Hamilton” before catching the show about America’s first secretary of the treasury opening night at Segerstrom Center for the Arts (scfta.org) in Costa Mesa—where it runs through Oct. 16. The touring...
by Jordan Young | Sep 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Very few people could entice me to listen to an evening of Broadway show tunes. Not my drug of choice. But Bernadette Peters is one of the chosen few. She could sing selected passages from the Yellow Pages, the Racing Form, or the glossary of a textbook on...
by Jordan Young | Aug 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
F.P. 1 DOESN’T ANSWER (1932) is a German science fiction film made just before the Nazis turned their movie industry into a propaganda machine. Recently released on video, it would be wholly unfamiliar if not for one detail—Peter Lorre appears in a comedic...
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