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...
by Jordan Young | Jul 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
“Pericles” at UCI’s New Swan, OC-centric at Chapman Greg Ungar in “The Pericles Project” (New Swan). Seldom does the Shakespeare aficionado get the opportunity to see a play he’s never seen before, so it was with great anticipation I returned to the New Swan...
by Jordan Young | Jun 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
On my first visit to New York in 1975, I met with a friend who was working at the Public Theatre. There was a line around the block—if memory serves—for a show that had opened the night before. “A Chorus Line” soon transferred to Broadway and the rest is history. The...
by Jordan Young | May 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Orange County actors are releasing a tremendous amount of wild, pent-up energy these days, as I’ve witnessed this past week in Costa Mesa Playhouse’s presentation of the zany farce “The Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged)” and Newport Theatre Arts Center’s...
by Jordan Young | May 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
Best reason to get outta Dodge (and So Cal) this week I can think of is The San Francisco Silent Film Festival (www.silentfilm.org), returning May 5–11 to the Castro Theatre. And as changes are afoot at the Castro, with the venue being renovated for live events, it...
by Jordan Young | Mar 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
It’s not every day a director calls you with an invitation to see a new show. The director was Mark Travis and the show was called “A Bronx Tale,” starring a cast of one, a young actor I’d never heard of named Chazz Palminteri. I was knocked out by it. Here was a guy...
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