by Jordan R. Young | May 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
Charlayne Woodard may be best known for her remarkable one-woman shows, but she is by no means limited to the genre. Her imagination really takes “Flight” in the show of the same name (now on Long Beach Playhouse’s mainstage through June 16). It’s not the story you...
by Jordan R. Young | May 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Taj Johnson and Amanda Zarr in “Good People” at the Chance. Courtesy Doug Catiller, True Image Studio. Where’s the comedy in a “dramatic comedy” about a single mother struggling to keep her head above water? Trust me, there’s plenty of it in “Good People” by David...
by Jordan R. Young | Apr 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
“The Bill Murray Stories,” courtesy NBFF. “Little Black Shadows” by Kemp Powers (at South Coast Repertory through Apr. 29) is as much about the power of storytelling as it is about the story being told. The tale—of young slaves who acted as servants to their master’s...
by Jordan R. Young | Apr 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Susannah Rogers and Elijah Alexander in Amy Freed’s “Shrew!” at South Coast Rep. Photo by Tania Thompson/SCR. If Amy Freed tripped herself up in her last at-bat at South Coast Repertory (in my estimation), she has scored a solid home run with “Shrew!” While the first...
by Jordan R. Young | Apr 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
If “millennials don’t really care about classic movies,” as the New York Post proclaimed last year, there are many young people who most assuredly do. Meeting and chatting with them is one of the unheralded pleasures of the TCM Classic Film Festival, which returns to...
by Jordan R. Young | Mar 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
If you read the publicity put forth by the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, you’ll note Michael Tilson Thomas is not only a National Medal of Arts winner but presently the longest-tenured music director of a major American orchestra. That’s far too modest, in my...
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