In Costa Mesa, ‘Hendrix Project’ is a psychedelic trip back to the ’60s

Whether it’s possible to capture the mood of an entire era or that of a specific moment in time in just an hour of stage time is debatable, but “The Hendrix Project” certainly makes a valiant effort at doing both.
Roger Guenveur Smith of New York’s CalArts Center for New Performance conceived of the show as a way of depicting the now legendary concert delivered on New Year’s Eve, 1969, by Jimi Hendrix and his electronic blues trio, Band of Gypsys, at New York City&r