Sunday, August 2, 2026
ALL ABOUT EVE… WITH JAZZ HANDS Bruce Kimmel’s affectionate revival proves that a sturdy backstage classic and a committed cast can still earn plenty of applause, even when there are rese…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 29, 2026
A PILL THAT’S HARD TO SWALLOW Chance Theater’s committed cast sells the songs in this jukebox musical, but can’t overcome a sprawling script When Alanis Morissette released Jagged Litt…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 23, 2026
SEXY, SINCERE… AND SLIGHT Outstanding chemistry can’t quite compensate for an opera that compresses too much Andy Acosta has sung Timothy Laughlin enough that the role has started to fee…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 21, 2026
NO STRINGS ATTACHED? THINK AGAIN Erik Patterson’s provocative world premiere boasts superb performances but mistakes repetition for depth In F**king Strangers, receiving its world premiere…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:38PM[SHARE]Friday, June 12, 2026
WHAT THE MUSIC BOX REMEMBERS A lavish production overcomes a book that never fully solves its own mystery A music box opens. A grandmother sings a lullaby to a five-year-old girl who will sp…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:27PM[SHARE]Monday, June 8, 2026
BALANCHINE IN A BOX ACB proves intimacy can be both an asset and a liability George Balanchine said he needed nothing but a stage, some light, and dancers. He also had the New York City Ball…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:01PM[SHARE]Friday, June 5, 2026
PEOPLE WHO NEED PEOPLE (TO MIND THE STORE) Michael Mullen shines in Jonathan Tolins’ affectionate backstage fantasy Jonathan Tolins built his 2013 solo play around one of the stranger fact…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 3, 2026
CONLON’S LAST SPELL A beloved production returns as James Conlon brings his remarkable LA Opera tenure to a close James Conlon walked to the podium last Saturday night and the house was on…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 2, 2026
LONG-DISTANCE DAMAGE Samuel D. Hunter finds devastating intimacy across thousands of miles Sam Shepard built True West on a kitchen and two brothers who could not stay out of each other’s …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:15AM[SHARE]Monday, June 1, 2026
A COUNTERTENOR WHO KNOWS WHERE THE POWER LIVES Key’mon Murrah and Les Talens Lyriques turn familiar Handel into something freshly urgent The program announced the obvious: nine arias from …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 31, 2026
EMPIRE STATE OF MIND A rare jukebox musical that finds fresh life by letting the songs tell the story A jukebox musical is an inheritance. Someone else wrote the songs, lived the life, banke…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]SLIGHTLY TOO BIG FOR HIS WORLD Eboni Booth’s Pulitzer-winning drama offers comfort, compassion, and just enough unease beneath the surface A bell rings before the lights come up. Out of th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 28, 2026
THE JOINT IS JUMPIN’, IT’S REALLY JUMPIN’ Ebony Rep finds the joy, sorrow, and swing hidden inside Fats Waller’s enduring revue Ain’t Misbehavin’ does not tell the story of Fats …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 26, 2026
PULLED OUT OF MYTH AND INTO THE HEADLINES Kenneth Cavander relocates Thebes to a near-future America, and something is lost in the move I first read Antigone in a basement college classroom …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 23, 2026
LORCA IN DRAG, WITH HIS CLAWS INTACT Rodrigo García and Ugho Badú reimagine a Spanish classic without dulling its edge Lorca wrote for women’s voices and then watched the world go silent…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:52AM[SHARE]Friday, May 22, 2026
BRIGADOON EARNS ITS MIRACLE Pasadena Playhouse’s revelatory new production treats Lerner and Loewe’s fable not as nostalgia, but as a question of faith, sacrifice, and survival Dormancy …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 12, 2026
The Salon at the End of the Century: The Cardinal Assumption of Dark Library H.G. Wells published The Time Machine in 1895, The Island of Doctor Moreau in 1896, The Invisible Man in 1897, an…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:47AM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2026
THE COST OF STAYING A rigorously observed production that grips in silence, even as the play leans toward explanation There is a language people invent when citizenship can vanish with a kno…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:58AM[SHARE]Friday, May 8, 2026
THE HOUSE THAT BUILT YOU A sweeping, structurally ambitious play that grips in the moment even as it searches for its final form There is a moment near the end of the first act of Fremont Av…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2026
DON’T BLAME MILLENNIALS: MILLENNIALS ARE KILLING MUSICALS IS KILLING MUSICALS (OR, WHEN SATIRE EATS ITSELF) An exhausting, vulgar, and unfocused musical that mistakes noise for insight and…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:53PM[SHARE]Friday, April 24, 2026
CRITICISM VS CONFESSION When analysis starts to look like refusal Editor’s note: Jesse Green was reassigned from his role as chief theatre critic at The New York Times in 2025 and now serv…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2026
A HUNGER THAT DOESN’T QUITE NAME ITSELF A sharp new play still discovering its center Lewis Carroll understood that eating is never just eating. When Alice stands before the small cake and…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:22AM[SHARE]Monday, April 20, 2026
THE LAST FOOL A master’s final shrug lands with surprising weight Verdi was seventy-nine when Falstaff premiered at La Scala in 1893. He had not written a comic opera since Un giorno di re…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 19, 2026
A HELL OF A MOUTHFUL A play where grief, faith, and ambition collide —and silence carries the weight Jacobson knows that the domestic and the exalted do not occupy different rooms. Hell Mo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2026
TWO VOICES, ONE VOLTAGE An evening of operatic power finds its charge in connection, not just scale BroadStage does not often present evenings of this ambition: a sold-out house, a freelance…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 12, 2026
EVERYTHING'S COMING UP JULE Broadway's golden-age hits return in a world premiere revue that treats them as living drama Jule Styne's name tends to arrive attached to titles that feel immova…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:12AM[SHARE]DELIBES TAKES THE LEAD In ABT's return of Ashton's Sylvia, the best performance at Segerstrom wasn't onstage Frederic Ashton's Sylvia arrives at Segerstrom Center for the Arts after nine yea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2026
THE RAIN IN SPAIN, UNRESTRAINED At full symphonic scale, My Fair Lady finally sounds the way it was written to be heard George Bernard Shaw got what he deserved. He spent decades refusing to…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2026
THE DREAM ON CREDIT A clear-eyed, unsentimental staging that lets Miller's argument land with full force Arthur Miller finished Act I of Death of a Salesman in a single day and the rest in s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:02AM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2026
THREE MEN IN A BOAT, WAITING FOR A FISH At Laguna Playhouse, the making of a blockbuster becomes a chamber piece about ego, craft, and survival Gildart Jackson, Will Block, and Adam Poole Th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2026
INTIMACY AND ENORMITY: MOZART AND MAHLER IN COSTA MESA Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488, is a peculiar piece to a classical program. It omits oboes entirely, replacing them …
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