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Wednesday, August 4,2010
Theater

Up and down

If you’re a techie at heart, La Jolla Playhouse’s Midsummer is for you

By Martin Jones Westlin
By the time William Shakespeare got around to writing A Midsummer Night’s Dream, recorded Western theater had been packing ’em in for about 20 centuries.
Wednesday, July 28,2010
Theater

Size matters

Once the dust settles, Rep’s very good Hairspray takes off

By Martin Jones Westlin
Tracy Turnblad’s mom Edna is so fat that she eventually had to let her shower curtain out. Now, that’s fat.
Wednesday, July 21,2010
Theater

Out of the box

Diversionary’s [title of show] shouldn’t work, but it does

By Martin Jones Westlin
Composer Jeff Bowen and librettist Hunter Bell didn’t know it, but they created the theater’s take on reality TV when they wrote [title of show]. The selfdescribed “musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical” is as reality TV as reality TV gets, loopy with the affectations that come with people caught in the act of impersonating themselves. Bowen and Bell starred in the off-Broadway and Broadway entries, which lent another layer of authenticity to the tale its PR machine dubs “a love letter to musical theater.”
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Tuesday, July 13,2010
Theater

Nervous tics

The Old Globe’s jittery The Madness of George III is all over the stylistic map

By Martin Jones Westlin
A 2005 analysis of a clump of hair from King George III, England’s toppest of the top during the American Revolution, shows the regent probably suffered from chronic hepatic porphyria. That’s your doc’s way of saying he struggled with big-time bouts of madness and paranoia, ulcerated skin, spasms of the muscles and veins, fierce diarrhea and abdominal pain and a pesky tendency to discharge purple pee and poop. Against those odds, the war must’ve been a stroll through the vegetable aisle—as an abjectly terrified George wailed during one onset, “I’m not going out of my mind! My mind is going out of me!”
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Wednesday, July 7,2010
Theater

Cross purposes

Even God can’t save these enemies from themselves in Ion Theatre’s Parasite Drag

By Martin Jones Westlin
Like all hard-line Christians, Gene can barely breathe under the weight of his two crosses—the one he wears on his sleeve to declare his faith and the one that governs his life, which resides inextricably up his ass. The latter is much the larger, crafted from decades of Church-fueled guilt and held together by memories of a family’s violent dysfunction. Gene’s faith is a figment of his blunted, ugly imagination—and now that God has hit him with a real-life left hook, true Christian peace is more elusive than ever.
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Wednesday, June 30,2010
Theater

Full circle

Noble, Foxworth start anew in Globe’s very good King Lear

By Martin Jones Westlin
Despite what he’d have you think, King Lear’s worst enemy is not daughter Cordelia, whom the eponymous ruler disowns in a world-class hissy-fit. It’s William Shakespeare, of all people. The story—about an aging, sloppily sentimental, mentally sketchy English regent who seeks to bequeath his kingdom to his three girls in return for their vows of love—isn’t exactly the playwright’s best, because the secondary characters’ richness almost scuttles the plot en route to a life of its own.
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Wednesday, June 23,2010
Theater

Sow's ear

Except for the total waste of talent, Vox Nova’s Arrow to the Heart isn’t bad

By Martin Jones Westlin
Except for the total waste of talent, Vox Nova’s Arrow to the Heart isn’t bad
Wednesday, June 16,2010
Theater

Streetwise

Teachers should take their students to InnerMission's Dog Sees God

By Martin Jones Westlin
Teachers should take their students to InnerMission's Dog Sees God
Tuesday, June 8,2010
Theater

Role reversal

Great Jo Anne Glover can only do so much in New Village Arts’ production of Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke

By Martin Jones Westlin
Great Jo Anne Glover can only do so much in New Village Arts’ production of Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke
Tuesday, June 1,2010
Theater

Making waves

North Coast Rep’s Voice of the Prairie underplays its most vital element—us

By Martin Jones Westlin
North Coast Rep’s Voice of the Prairie underplays its most vital element—us
 
 
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