by Jordan Young | Mar 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
Extra time on your hands? Now’s your chance to catch up on movies and books. Sunday afternoons in quarantine are a lot more fun now that I can look forward to my friends Ben Model and Steve Massa host the Silent Comedy Watch Party on YouTube (streamed live at 3pm...
by Jordan Young | Feb 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano calls itself Orange County’s Premiere Concert Venue. To me they fail the acid test of a venue worthy of that label—good acoustics. The Irvine Barclay Theatre, that modest little auditorium on the UC Irvine campus, isn’t...
by Jordan Young | Feb 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
How do you make art from Awkward with a capital A, an unusually difficult and sometimes tragic adolescence? See the groundbreaking Lisa Kron-Jeanine Tesori musical “Fun Home” (playing through Mar. 1 at the Chance Theater in Anaheim Hills) and find out. This...
by Jordan Young | Jan 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
South Coast Repertory can never be accused of staging plays primarily for white audiences. They do an exemplary job of offering works by and about ethnic minorities, of which they can justly be proud. In the case of plays focused on African Americans however shows...
by Jordan Young | Jan 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
“The Ed Sullivan Show” was “a really big show” in its day, as its host often boasted, a television program that could propel little known talents to the forefront. Talents such as Borscht Belt ventriloquist Rickie Layne and his Yiddish-accented dummy Velvel, and a...
by Jordan Young | Dec 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
Spike Jones had his offbeat version of “The Nutcracker Suite,” Duke Ellington had his elegant variation. Tchaikovsky’s beloved holiday treat swings into Orange County Dec. 15 when the Duke Ellington Orchestra—the only ensemble continuing the tradition of the...
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