by Jordan R. Young | May 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Shawn-Caulin Young in “Heart, Baby!” One of the great things about the annual Newport Beach Film Festival—which wrapped its 18th edition last week—is the abundance of short film programs. If you don’t like what you’re watching, wait a few minutes. You’re bound...
by Jordan R. Young | Apr 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Shannon Cochran and Lynn Milgrim in “A Doll’s House, Part 2” at South Coast Rep. Photo by Debora Robinson/SCR. What happens when Nora Helmer returns home for a visit, 15 years after she walked out at the end of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”? Lucas Hnath has come up...
by Jordan R. Young | Apr 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
Vince Giordano What do Woody Allen, Mel Brooks and Michael Feinstein know that most folks don’t? They’re all wild about, cannot do without Vince Giordano—when it comes to recreating the music of the 1920s and ‘30s and making it live for today, he’s “the top,” as Cole...
by Jordan R. Young | Apr 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Mamie Gummer and Ben Feldman in “The Siegel.” Photo by Debora Robinson/SCR. What if? That’s the question we all ask ourselves in the wee hours of the night, is it not? And that’s the proposition Michael Mitnick makes in “The Siegel” at South Coast...
by Jordan R. Young | Mar 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
Together again – Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett. It’s hard to believe the theatrical juggernaut that is “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” almost wasn’t. When the Burt Shevelove-Larry Gelbart-Stephen Sondheim show first previewed on Broadway,...
by Jordan R. Young | Mar 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
Yuri Temirkanov (courtesy IMG Artists) A friend once gave me a ticket he couldn’t use to a concert at Segerstrom Center for the Arts. I thought it was a lousy seat—front row, far right—until I realized it afforded me a terrific view of the conductor, who was so...
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