by Jordan Young | Oct 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
A less than capable cast and crew can wreak havoc on stage, especially with a non-linear play that jumps around. Sharr White’s “The Other Place” (at The Chance Theater in Anaheim Hills through Oct. 21) is just such a play, but fortunately it’s in very good hands in...
by Jordan Young | Sep 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
South Coast Repertory pushes the concept of colorblind casting to the edge with their current production of Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” (in Costa Mesa through Sept. 29). Purists and history buffs may object at first glance to the multi-ethnic...
by Jordan Young | Sep 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
Take a wild guess what Ingrid Bergman did between leaving Sweden and coming to Hollywood. No, she didn’t go to Italy and make a porno flick (that I know of), but she did stop in Germany long enough to appear in a Nazi propaganda film about modern women. That’s the...
by Jordan Young | Aug 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
If you think you’re going crazy in the heat, the folks at Fullerton’s STAGEStheatre are one up on you. They’ve gone completely off their nut, at least the cast and crew of William Robert Carey’s “Idol Minds.” This is not one of those sophisticated French farces; it’s...
by Jordan R. Young | Aug 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
What are the chances of seeing a beautifully restored version of “Little Orphant Annie” (1918), starring a youthful Colleen Moore in her earliest extant movie? Pretty good, now that film historian and preservationist Eric Grayson has decided to make this long-held...
by Jordan R. Young | Aug 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
How many “Macbeths” and “Twelfth Nights” will audiences for Shakespeare support? An infinite number, it seems. Will people come to see something of the Bard’s so seldom staged most have never even heard of it, for example “The Winter’s Tale”? Yes, as it turns out—even...
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