Friday, February 21, 2025
A DESIGN AS IMPRESSIVE AS A REDWOOD ITSELF The new Broadway musical Redwood, which opened on February 13, is a master class in tech theater. Set designer Jason Ardizzone-West makes this clea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2025
MADELINE SEIDMAN IS REMARKABLE IN GARSIDE'S CAREER Since 1995, the invaluable Mint Theatre Company has been unearthing lost, neglected plays from yesteryear. With artistic director Jonathan …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 16, 2025
MIND FOR GOLD Vinny DePonto, the Brooklyn-based mentalist, is undeniably a master showman"and a strikingly handsome one at that (I'll draw a comparison to Jake Gyllenhaal). Like all magician…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Monday, December 30, 2024
WAKING US UP TO WOKENESS Playwright Jonathan Spector makes an impressive Broadway debut with Eureka Day, a strikingly relevant and well-crafted production that convincingly captures the comp…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:48PM[SHARE]Monday, November 25, 2024
DEATH BECOMES HER BECOMES BROADWAY I had opposite opinions this week between the opening of the film version of Wicked and the new Broadway musical comedy Death Becomes Her. Wicked outsoared…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:41PM[SHARE]Monday, November 11, 2024
HELLO, SATCHMO! THANK GOODNESS LOUIS IS BACK IN TOWN; WE NEED HIM MORE THAN EVER There's a new jukebox musical in town. But don't run in the other direction. A Wonderful World, which opened …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 19, 2024
DESIGNING THE FUTURE Tony-nominated set designer for this season's Lempicka, Riccardo Hernández also designed Suffs. Other Broadway productions have included The Thanksgiving Play, Jag…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Alexi Melvin has found a new home in the New York theater scene, striving to champion innovative storytelling and artists within marginalized communities. In less than one year's time, she h…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Monday, June 17, 2024
THE NOT-SO-GOOD, THE BAD AND THE REALLY REALLY UGLY What better way to get a fresh perspective of our American West than by attending a 300-year history reenactment in 100 minutes? Written a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2024
HOLY QUEER HORROR! IT'S JOEY MERLO Joey Merlo may be best known (so far) for his On Set with Theda Bara, a "haunting and refreshingly funny fever dream" (Vulture), a one-man play starring Da…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2024
THE McKITTRICK HOTEL, HOME OFÂ SLEEP NO MORE, EXTENDSÂ LATE NIGHT SULTRY SPECTACLE HYPNOTIQUE ALL-NEW NOCTURNAL EXPERIENCE EXTENDED Performances have been extended again on Friday and Sa…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2024
AVANT-GARDNER NewYorkRep is currently presenting the world premiere of The Opposite of Love by Ashley Griffin, which runs through June 15, 2024 at the Royal Family Performing Arts Space at C…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:39PM[SHARE]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 …
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