Thursday, November 13, 2025
Bluebeard's Castle, A Medieval Musical Thriller by Russian director and playwright Sofia Streisand, making her U.S. debut at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, displays immense ambition that achi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2025
SUPER ZEROES UNITE! Aging heroes, flat jokes, and laughs that need life support Golden Age by Thomas J. Nisuraca is the roughest of rough theatre. Staged by Force of Nature Productions and d…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:14AM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2025
THANKS TO ANTAEUS, CYMBELINE RIDES AGAIN Who knew Cymbeline could gallop? Director Nike Doukas's new staging at Antaeus Theatre Company turns one of Shakespeare's most notoriously unwieldy p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:17AM[SHARE]Friday, October 17, 2025
A MILD CASE OF THE CREEPS Ah, Halloween " All Hallows' Day, Allhallowtide, Jack-o'-lanterns, the madcap lads of West Hollywood, the troops of pint-sized witches, Iron Men and Disney princess…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Friday, October 3, 2025
INTO THE WORDS Entering The Other Space at the Actors Company Theatre Complex, I was immediately taken by Fritz Davis's well-crafted video projections cast on Joel Daavid's set of three wall…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:41AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 28, 2025
OH, WHAT A NIGHT Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana (1961) may be viewed as the finish of a journey the playwright began twenty years earlier with The Glass Menagerie (1944). The on…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 14, 2025
A GEM OF A PRODUCTION FOR THERESA REBECK'S DAZZLING SUNDAY ON THE ROCKS Solid. Diamond Solid. Strength and luster. That is what's most striking about Sunday on the Rocks by playwright Theres…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2025
FLY ME TO THE SUN… AND LEAVE ME THERE I confess, playwright Brian Quijada was an unknown quantity to me, and after attending Fly Me to the Sun at the Fountain Theatre, I was of the mind th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2025
ACHILLES' HEEL IN ARCADIA There is a misunderstanding of critics among some circles, a sense that they are all cast in the mold of Ellsworth Toohey, the sniveling, Machiavellian art critic f…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2025
A MASTERPIECE OF MUSICAL MISCHIEF In 1911, the Louvre was the largest building in the world, containing more than a thousand rooms, spread out over 45 acres and housing over a quarter millio…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2025
TIME IS OUR FRIEND A Victorian inventor travels thousands of years into the future, only to discover that humanity has evolved"and devolved"into two radically different species. The 14/48 Ho…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:35AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 2, 2025
Let there be no mistaking it, Mark Vigeant is so funny that if he was performing on an amphitheater set up in front of Mount Rushmore, after the first five minutes milk would be shooting out…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 27, 2025
DEAD BLONDES TELL NO TALES " EXCEPT THIS ONE Conspiracy theories have surrounded the death of actress and restaurateur Thelma Todd since 1935, when her lifeless body was discovered in a gara…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:36PM[SHARE]WAITING FOR COWDOT Normally, a surfeit of hyphens in any production assures trouble ahead, but Aaron Francis, the writer-director-designer-producer of this subversive, potent indictment of t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 20, 2025
A KNOCK AT THE HEART With her staging of Dolores, Edward Allan Baker's two-woman drama about domestic violence, director Stephanie Feury"at the theatre that bears her name"has placed on disp…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 19, 2025
OFFTIME Abi Watkinson's one-woman show 5:45 is a poor receptacle for a great deal of talent"one that feels underdeveloped and not fully thought through. The trouble starts with the title. A …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:58PM[SHARE]A TAIL OF LOVE ON A LEASH Playwright Benjamin Schwartz and director Natalie Nicole Dressel, in league with actors Callie Ott and Spencer Weitzel, have served up in Dog of Carnage one of the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:01PM[SHARE]NOBODY LOVES A FAT GIRL (UNTIL SHE HAS A MIC) Laural Meade has treated the concept of the solo-bio show like an origami master, folding it over and out until it becomes something other than …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:00PM[SHARE]Friday, July 18, 2025
DÉJÀ LOUCHE Just to Be Close to You opens with an immaculately coiffed and mustachioed Cam Poter stepping before the packed audience at the Broadwater Studio as his alter ego, the re…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:03AM[SHARE]SOUNDCHECK FOR SURVIVAL "Aha…sure…uh-huh…yes…ummm…you say…." And so begins NO, dancer/actuation artist Annalisa Limardi's intriguing, minimalistic dissertation on the social pres…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:23AM[SHARE]PAGING DR. DRAMA, STAT! VITALS NOT STABLE Nursing Is My Life was a heart-breaker for me. Charley Karlotta has spent decades as a registered nurse, raising her family, and dreaming of one day…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:20AM[SHARE]NICAEA TRY Oh, Constantine! at the Zephyr Theatre is an odd nut to crack. Or I should say review. One of the best-produced shows at the Fringe, this is the brainchild of playwright / directo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2025
A DUPLEX THAT'S GOING TO THE DOGS Those who flocked to the "Sunshine State" during the population boom of the 1920s and '30s, were mostly "easterners" who had only known tenement living, cut…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 9, 2025
A NEW MUSICAL HAS ARRIVED TO PUMP UP PATRONS FOR DECADES TO COME Allen Moyle's 1990 film Pump Up the Volume starred Christian Slater as Mark, a graceless, socially awkward high school studen…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 5, 2025
PIPPIN GOES HOLLYWOOD Pippin, with music and lyrics supplied by Stephen Schwartz, and book penned by Roger O. Hirson (who was best known for writing the script to the war flick The B…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:36PM[SHARE]Friday, July 4, 2025
A MONODRAMA OF SHADOWS AND SHATTERED SANITY As part of an international procession"a dread march of artistry across borders"Mr. Stephen Smith did, for a grievously brief engagement, alight a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 22, 2025
FIRE AND BRIMSTONE FATIGUE One must admire Antony Zioni for his aspirations with Tales of the Ancient East, which, regrettably, makes the failure of this production all the more lamentable. …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:19PM[SHARE]A GAME OF HEARTS PLAYED FACE DOWN There is no question that Ann Noble is one of the most talented actresses gracing the stages of Los Angeles. There are moments in her bitter-sweet, two-pers…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:01AM[SHARE]ALL IN ONE AND ONE IN ALL With Except Myself at the Broadwater Black Box, playwright Drew Petriello has achieved a clever, slick, and absolutely entertaining deconstruction of the solo sh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 21, 2025
THE GOOD ANDREW BYRON CREATES A LONG AND WINDING RUSSIAN Andrew Byron frames his one man show The Good Russian within the historical context of 2018, when Sergei Skripal, a Russian expatr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 18, 2025
NOT ENOUGH HEAT The Second Coming of Joan of Arc is the best-known work of American playwright, author, and lesbian feminist Carolyn Gage. Loosely based, scholars will tell you, "very loosel…
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