Tuesday, November 18, 2025
THE MARATHON OF MAKING ART A process piece that asks as much of the audience as the ensemble Perhaps the title of Nazareth Hassan's new play Practice, which opened at Playwrights Horizons to…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:50PM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2025
FROM CALLING CUES TO TAKING THEM Ruth Sternberg on her unexpected return to The Public" this time as an actor For nearly two decades, Ruth Sternberg was one of the steady, unseen engines of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:17PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 9, 2025
A SPELLBINDING CAULDRON BOILS OVER, SUMMONING THEATER'S WILD GODS Suffice it to say, there's nothing else in New York quite like Anne Washburn's new play The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:50PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 8, 2025
A LOVE LETTER TO THE OBAMAS THAT BRINGS THE WHITE HOUSE DOWN The biggest surprise of the season for me has been 44 the Musical, which opened last night at the Daryl Roth Theatre. Billed as a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:02PM[SHARE]Friday, November 7, 2025
NOSTALGIA IN THE SPOTLIGHT, MODERNITY IN THE WINGS At a time when most new musicals chase novelty, Reunions looks lovingly backward. Conceived as a pair of one-act chamber pieces performed b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 24, 2025
WHEN CIVILIZATION CRASHES IN QUIET MODE Cellunova Productions' latest outing, Destination Undefined ventures into the future with a provocative premise that might make you reconsider your st…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:23AM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2025
POLLUTION ISN'T THE ONLY PROBLEM IN SULFUR BOTTOM Playwright Rishi Varma sets out with noble intentions in Sulfur Bottom"to shine a light on environmental racism and the communities whose li…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 10, 2025
TA-DA! AND OTHER QUEER MAGIC TRICKS For Josh Sharp, "ta-da!" is code for gay. As a twelve-year-old magician, it was his entrance line: "ta-da!" Yeah, totally gay. But growing up in the South…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2025
DARWIN DEL FABRO STUNS IN A PERFORMANCE OF BECOMING One reason the queer community has found broader acceptance in America " generally speaking " is that most people today know someone who i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2025
FRANK MORGAN Not too long ago in Sag Harbor, Morgan Bassichis spent time at an artist residency. For those unfamiliar with such places, Morgan wryly explained that "an art residency is when …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 30, 2025
PATCHWORK PATRIOTISM, POWERED BY A KILLER SETLIST With a book credited to Bryce Hallett, one may expect Rolling Thunder to be a new Off-Broadway musical. Despite the presence of a librettist…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 27, 2025
A Woman's Journey of Self-Discovery Presented in the Year of the Snake, Lady White Snake offers a contemporary interpretation of one of China's great folktales"long retold in theatre, film, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:22AM[SHARE]Friday, July 25, 2025
TWO GINGER SNAPS UP FOR THIS PARENT TRAP PARODY The subtitle for Ginger Twinsies, the new Off-Broadway comedy which last tonight at the Orpheum Theatre, reads: "The Parent Trap parody (legal…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00AM[SHARE]THE MORRIS, THE MERRIER The Mark Morris Dance Group celebrates its 45th anniversary with a dynamic return to The Joyce Theater. Program B showcases a wide-ranging display of the company's ha…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:52AM[SHARE]JOY TO THE WHIRL For every inventive soul who's ever heard "no," "pass," or "next," Joy is for you. Based on the life of Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano, this briskly staged musical deliver…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:30AM[SHARE]Friday, July 18, 2025
YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S IN STORE; SHOP 'TIL REALITY DROPS Area15 is an immersive retail and entertainment district located just minutes from the Las Vegas Strip. Its crown jewel is Omega Mar…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 10, 2025
A DARKLY HILARIOUS REVIVAL The 1989 cult classic film, Heathers (if you haven't seen it, it's a friggin' must) preceeded the film Mean Girls (2004) by fifteen years. Later, it was adapted in…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 6, 2025
A WESTERN WORTH REVISITING The Onomatopoeia Theatre Company, in collaboration with the Gene Frankel Theatre, brings back The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance in a compelling and timely revival. …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:52AM[SHARE]JOYFUL, JERKY, AND JUST WHAT OFF-BROADWAY NEEDS There are two powerful reasons to see Bear Grease. First: The deeply felt curtain speech by Henry Cloud Andrade, co-writer/co-creator"with Cry…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 3, 2025
ELLA STILLER'S DILARIA: A DEBUT IN EXTREMIS Three striking Off-Broadway debuts anchor Dilaria, a sharp, volatile new play by Julia Randall at the DR2"the Daryl Roth Theater's 99-seat space j…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 1, 2025
DEFYING GRAVITY… AND CONVENTION Since its founding in 1971, Pilobolus has made a name for itself by celebrating the expressive potential of the human body"its weight, balance, connectivity…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:57AM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2025
There are two standout reasons to catch Beau the Musical, the moving and musically stirring new Off-Broadway production now playing at Theatre 154"aside from the fact that its cast of eight …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:22PM[SHARE]QUINTUPLE THREAT NYMPHIA WIND HAS MORE THAN BANANA APPEAL I'm a bad gay. I've only seen one or two episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race out of"how many seasons now? Seventeen! But after seeing Nym…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 26, 2025
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE OF RAGE As the inaugural production at the new Studio Seaview (formerly Second Stage on 43rd and 8th), Penelope Skinner's Angry Alan opened June 11 for a limited run. St…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Monday, June 23, 2025
WAR IS FOR CLOWNS Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland join the thrilling ranks of clown-trained performers (Julia Masli is another) reshaping the boundaries of theatrical storytelling. A Letter to…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:23PM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2025
APPARENTLY, YOU CAN DO A LOT My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?) is a joyous, autobiographical solo show from social media sensation Rob Madge, charting their journey as a queer child wi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 18, 2025
A RADICAL FAIRY TALE FIT FOR A KING The only marketing I saw for Jordan Tannahill's provocative new play Prince Faggot, which opened last night at Playwrights Horizons (a co-production with …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2025
EVENTUALLY, EVERYTHING COMES OUT IN THE WASH Woodie King Jr.'s New Federal Theatre has found a new home, relocating from the Lower East Side to the Upper West Side's WP Theater. Their second…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 10, 2025
HA-LLELUJAH! HELP IS JUST A "HA" AWAY Julia Masli makes a slow, focused entrance onto the stage of the Anspacher Theater at The Public. Despite the surrounding moody blues, her face is lit b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2025
A NIGHT OF MUSIC, MEMORY, AND MADNESS: PARADISE FOUND The Studio Theatre's Victor Shargai stage has been strikingly transformed into a 1949 jazz club for Paradise Blue, Dominique Morisseau's…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]KING JAMES SCORES BIG AT ROUND HOUSE THEATRE Rajiv Joseph's King James"which opened last night at Round House Theatre"isn't a revival of the 1611 Bible translation, but a contemporary comedy…
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