Thursday, May 30, 2024
PLATT'S WHERE IT'S AT AT THE PALACE As if opening the newly refurbished Palace Theater (after a 4 year hiatus) isn't exciting enough, why not add Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Ben Plat…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2024
A CHAMPION RETURNS In my first interview with Ethan Joseph a year ago, I wondered how a 12-year old boy would be able to top performing at the Met in Terence Blanchard's Champion. On one of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2024
THE FLAMES OF INJUSTICE Documentary theatre, a.k.a. docudrama, uses existing nonfiction sources to create works of performance that reenact historical events. My earliest recollection of doc…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2024
THE OUTSIDERS IS PURE THEATRICAL GOLD Neither a rehash of S.E. Hinton's classic 1967 novel nor of the iconic 1983 film by Frances Ford Coppola, the stunning new musical The Outsiders, which …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 28, 2024
"In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest." ― William Penn Itamar Moses (The Band's Visit) is a playwright we should all be listening to. His new pl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 25, 2024
THE HUNT IS ON, BRUTAL AND UNMISSABLE The Jungle. Volcano. Life & Times of Michael K. In the last year alone, the venerable St. Ann's Warehouse has hosted stunning theater from around th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:45PM[SHARE]Monday, February 19, 2024
FUNNY FIVE SENDS-UP SIX To the worldwide fanbase of the Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss's Six, fear not " the new Off-Broadway parody Five pays loving homage to the girl-power musical sensation th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 7, 2024
KING LEAR, KING LEAR Gregory Mullavey stars in the Frog + Peach Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's King Lear through Feb. 18, 2024. Mr. Mullavey performs the iconic tragic charact…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 28, 2024
A MATTRESS THAT REVIVES AND RENEWS When Encores! announced Once Upon a Mattress as part of their season's concert series reviving American musicals, my first thought: Does this nutty chestnu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 18, 2024
IS LOVE REALLY ALL YOU NEED? "Love" appears three times in the title of this three-act play, and there are three separate time periods and settings, all of which are directed with solid, ass…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 7, 2024
A HOLE OF SLIME Joben Productions presents The Whole of Time by Romina Paula, an Argentinean playwright and multidisciplinary artist. The play was translated by Jean Graham-Jones, a scholar …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 27, 2023
TITAN OF LAUGHS Drew Droege has stepped into the role of Ruth, Rose's mother, after TitanÃque's first year of performances at Off-Broadway's Daryl Roth Theatre. He's performed two solo sh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 13, 2023
INFINITE PLAYWRITING Co-produced by Atlantic Theater Company and National Theatre, the one-hour and 45-minute production (no intermission) is Annie Baker's best play to date. At least from m…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 7, 2023
A WALLER OF STRENGTH The Creeps is a one-woman show created by and starring Catherine Waller, a native of Auckland, New Zealand, At Playhouse 46 at St. Luke's, an intimate black box arena co…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:58PM[SHARE]AN INTRUSIVE NEW MUSICAL Presented by Howard Alter and Tom Giachetti of Gotta Believe Theater Group, Relapse: A New Musical by J. Giachetti (Book and Lyrics) and Louis Josephson (Music and A…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:29PM[SHARE]A COTTAGE BUILT FOR LAURA BELL BUNDY Currently running on Broadway for a limited run is the very funny bedroom farce, The Cottage by Sandy Rustin, directed by Jason Alexander, and with the s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 20, 2023
EL MAGO POP CUTS THROUGH THE CHEESE WITH AN ASTOUNDING BROADWAY DEBUT At 37, the celebrity illusionist Antonio Diaz, AKA "El Mago Pop," may or may not be the youngest illusionist to appear o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:35PM[SHARE]Friday, August 11, 2023
JASMINE GRACEFULLY BLOOMS Making her Broadway debut in Here Lies Love, triple-threat Jasmine Forsberg plays Maria Luisa and "Imelda's Inner Voice." Prior to this run, she played Jane Seymour…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 3, 2023
VROMAN AT HOME IN NEW CABARET SHOW Lisa Vroman, celebrated as one of the greatest crossover sopranos of this generation, makes her Coachella Valley Repertory debut Thursday, August 10, 2023 …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 4, 2023
AN ACTOR WHO WILL CHARM THE JOEY PANTS OFF YOU Joe Pantoliano, affectionately nicknamed Joey Pants, has a recognizable face and voice from decades of TV and film " too many to mention, but p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 24, 2023
ON THE EVE OF ENLIGHTENMENT Melvin Richard "Dakin" Matthews has had a major theatrical presence on the west coast, the east coast, and at many regional theaters inbetween. He's also ma…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 9, 2023
AN ANGEL IN NEW YORK, AND NEW YORK, NEW YORK Angel Sigala was born and raised near Mexico City. His parents moved the family to the U.S. when he was ten years old, and he quickly dove into l…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 21, 2023
FROM THE BAILEY OF JOY At Off-Broadway's Theatre Row on West 42nd Street, Stage and Cinema's Gregory Fletcher spoke with Shanel Bailey, who stars in the first New York revival of Lynn Nottag…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 5, 2022
ACE YOUNG AT HEART At The Tank theater on West 36th Street, Stage and Cinema's Gregory Fletcher spoke with Ace Young who stars in Off-Off-Broadway's Vatican Falls, the controversial play wri…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 27, 2022
GETTING TO THE MEAT OF HER CAREER Michele Ragusa is blessed and touched by the theater Gods " they're real, trust us. Her career in theater is simply glowing, full of variety, and seemingly …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 11, 2022
STUART NOT SO LITTLE In August of 1987, Stuart Zagnit took over the role of Seymour, the young botanist in the original production of Little Shop of Horrors at New York's Off-Broadway Orpheu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 11, 2022
YOU'LL WISH YOU WERE NIKKI Wish You Were Here begins in 1978 when protests are breaking out across Iran, encroaching on a suburb where a tight-knit circle of girlfriends is getting ready for…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:53PM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2022
INTERCONNECTEDNESS: A WAY OF SURVIVAL Recently, at Theater for the New City on the lower eastside of Manhattan, Executive Artistic Director Crystal Field and AMERINDA (American Indian Artist…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2022
THE ART OF INHABITING A ROLE NaTasha Yvette Williams is the newest cast member at Tina: The Tina Turner Musical on Broadway, playing Zelma, Tina's mother. A juicy, dramatic role, Zelma is ab…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:16PM[SHARE]Friday, November 18, 2011
WOJTUNIK IS FAR FROM DONE You're in Times Square for a night of theater. You turn down 47th Street and pass the Ethel Barrymore Theatre where An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patin…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 17, 2011
THE LONG TERM RELATIONSHIPS OF SINAN ÃœNEL AND LEO TOLSTOY Cheryl King's intimate Stage Left Studio on Manhattan's West 30th Street specializes in showcasing one-to-two-person plays. T…
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