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Recently the “made in China” label has been tarnished by controversies, including outsourcing and sweatshop labor practices. But neither politics nor controversy has clouded the superstar status of Lang Lang, the ubiquitous Chinese concert pianist who opened the San Diego Symphony fall season Friday (Oct. 5) under Music Director Jahja Ling. Lang’s presence on the program surely accounted for the sold-out house—the orchestra may have a respectable following, but sold-out symphony concerts are rare at Copley Symphony Hall—and the audience showered him with an unusually ardent and raucous response. And that was before he sat down to play the concert…
You’ve probably guessed that we’ve got a satire going here, and, in fact, there’s quite a few laugh-out-loud lines. There’s also some pretty good send-ups of media conventions, some references to Obama and Romney that will be dated in six weeks, a funny “debate” about religion, and a lot of references that theatre insiders will catch. In fact, if audiences for The Exit Interview could consist entirely of other actors, it would be uproarious.
People are pretty much the same everywhere, but storytellers understand that audiences love rediscovering this reality through a peep into somebody else’s life. That’s where plays like David Lindsay-Abaire’s play Good People – presently at the Old Globe Theatre’s White Theatre through Oct. 28 – come from. In a program note, the Boston author describes his own split-personality childhood – a pauper from the projects daily bussed on scholarship to a ritzy prep school – as his inspiration for these characters, a collection more of survivors than winners. Margaret Walsh, a worn single mom juggling her menial job and the…
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 19th century thriller novella by Robert Louis Stevenson about one man’s obsession with the violent conflicts between good and evil aspects within the same man . That man is not Frank Wildhorn, though it could be. Wildhorn and his faithful English companion Leslie Bricusse have been laboring in the laboratory for a couple of decades, trying to capture a musical theatre version of Stevenson’s tale. As has been the pattern in the past, a long period of peaceful silence has been burst by a new eruption, this one at the…
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