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  Breaking Glass - Nazis do lunch after Kristallnacht

  It can't be easy writing a play about Nazis. Actors may love dressing up in smart Gestapo uniforms, but playwrights are handicapped because they are loath to bestow upon Nazis the same range of humanizing quirks available to other fictional characte...

  by Steven Mikulan on May 18, 2006

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  Daddy Warbucks and the Temple of Doom - Arthur Miller's All My Sons

  They don't write plays like All My Sons anymore. Arthur Miller was clearly following the ancient Greek template, a template that, like a silver dish holding thunder and fire, also contained the blueprint for America's greatest 20th-century dramati...

  by Steven Leigh Morris on May 18, 2006

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  Theater Reviews

  GO CHEAP TALE Comedienne, heal thyself, is the connective theme of Jennifer Fitzgerald and Mandy Steckelberg's pair of quite funny one-woman shows, directed smoothly by Jennifer Carta. In the first, Memoirs of a Flaker, Fitzgerald chronicles two de...

  by L.A. Weekly Theater Critics on May 18, 2006

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  Spinal Column

  The Only Other Music Gyrgy Ligeti's Requiem first makes itself known in your lower spine, moves overpoweringly upward and explodes into full awareness. Deep, dark harmonies resound from the low voices in the two interwoven choirs, further colored ...

  by Alan Rich on May 18, 2006

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  The Socit Anonyme

  In 1920, radical young composers calling themselves "Les Six" banded together in Paris. Rebelling against "outmoded" Wagnerism and Impressionism, Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre -...

  by Mary Beth Crain on May 18, 2006

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  Jazz Dance L.A.

  An upswing in the use of dance in music videos and television commercials may keep dancers employed, but the result can be frustrating to watch. Too often, a stunning dance sequence is chopped up by quick editing, or blocked as the superstar act or ...

  by Ann Haskins on May 18, 2006

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  Waiting For Bowiedot

  @ Public Spectacle by Linda Immediato on January 10, 2006 @ 10:01 pm

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  Get The Fuck Up Gets Its Stripes

  @ Public Spectacle by Linda Immediato on January 10, 2006 @ 10:01 pm

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  Stop, in the Name of Vanity

  @ Public Spectacle by Linda Immediato on January 10, 2006 @ 9:01 pm

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  Whoreson Bitches and Coincidence

  @ Public Spectacle by Caroline Ryder on January 9, 2006 @ 10:01 am

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  Colin Farrell- A Style Council fan?

  @ Public Spectacle by Linda Immediato on January 8, 2006 @ 12:01 am

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  Gettin' My Groove Back

  @ Public Spectacle by Linda Immediato on January 6, 2006 @ 4:01 pm

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  Pound of Flesh - New theater reviews

  Playwright-director Michael Peter Bolus' absorbing drama takes place in 1945 at a U.S. military prison where poet Ezra Pound awaits trial for treason. During the war, Pound was charged with giving comfort to the enemy by making a series of radio bro...

  by L.A. Weekly Theater Critics on May 11, 2006

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  Mean Snacks and Monkey Shit - Talking bananas with George Saunders

  Some artists need to invent a persona; others are formed (and informed) by interesting life experience. George Saunders, a onetime Ayn Rand-reading geophysicist, is today a pop culture-loving Buddhist and Syracuse University professor. In light of h...

  by Alec Hanley Bemis on May 11, 2006

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  Dutch Auction - Lowbrow relics on the block; RIP, Fausto Vitello

  The world of Lowbrow Art was shocked and saddened on April 22, when 59-year-old Juxtapoz publisher Fausto Vitello died suddenly of a heart attack while riding his bike in Woodside, California. Vitello was, of course, best known for his High Speed Pr...

  by Doug Harvey on May 11, 2006

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  Don Sorenson, Queen of the Night#29;

  It hasn't always been sexy to be a non-objective painter in Los Angeles, but L.A. has always had sexy non-objectivists, painters just as tough, smart and skilled as their New York and San Francisco counterparts but undersung at home. Don Sorenson wa...

  by Peter Frank on May 11, 2006

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  10th Annual Festival of Solos & Duets: A Choreographers' Showcase

  One of the jewels in the local scene, the Fountain Theater has a long-standing commitment to dance. After three years, the irrepressible Forever Flamenco still continues to draw and delight every Sunday. The Fountain's Festival of Solos and Duets ma...

  by Ann Haskins on May 11, 2006

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  To Wonder, to Ponder

  Unfinished but Polished One question immediately surfaced, as a near-capacity audience cheered itself hoarse at the sublime artistry of Ian Bostridge and Leif Ove Andsnes, and the performers had run out of encores: Why aren't there more concerts li...

  by Alan Rich on May 11, 2006

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  Theater Reviews

  ALL STEPS NECESSARY Director Jim Ortlieb's staging of Michael Halperin's Third Reich one-act is visually authentic, thanks to Valerie Laven-Cooper's detailed costume work, but the production displays a reckless indifference to the story's intrinsic d...

  by L.A. Weekly Theater Critics on May 11, 2006

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  Ben Johnston at 80

  When Ben Johnston caused riots in Rio in 1962 with his infamous Knocking Piece for Grand Piano Interior, a rhythmic onslaught that requires the players to beat the piano with any available malletlike objects, he was probably surprised at the brouhah...

  by Mary Beth Crain on May 11, 2006