Friday, July 18, 2025
A GIANT PEACH OF AN ANTISEMITE There's something eerily familiar about the way John Lithgow adjusts his cardigan in Mark Rosenblatt's haunting new play Giant, now playing in the West End's H…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 16, 2025
THE GYM TOOK OVER ARGENTINA AND NOBODY LOOKED BACK Jamie Lloyd's Evita comes at you like a SoulCycle class that got a state grant for performance art. It's sweaty, shiny, and occasionally sh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:57PM[SHARE]Monday, June 30, 2025
In Praise of a Misjudged Misfit: Mark Brokaw and the Undeserved Fate of Cry-Baby In the wake of director Mark Brokaw's untimely passing at 65 yesterday, I find myself returning not to one of…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:36PM[SHARE]THE ODYSSEY, IN ASHES AND UPHOLSTERY The chair will not move. That is how we begin. In Anna Ziegler's The Janeiad, now in a quietly astonishing production at the Old Globe, which produced Zi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 25, 2025
STANDING OVATIONS, INNER DEMONS By the time Jeffrey Seller is having sex in a gym sauna"one of the more unfiltered anecdotes in Theater Kid"it's clear this isn't your typical Broadway memoir…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:44PM[SHARE]Monday, June 16, 2025
BROADWAY STARS UNDER THE STARS If you've ever wanted to hear Michael Feinstein conduct an orchestra while a pulchritude of peacocks prance in the background, you're in for one of LA's most d…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 8, 2025
Synthwave Romance: The Wedding Singer Grooves on Camp, Chemistry, and Crimped Hair If you still belt out "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" in your car or secretly miss the days when big hair …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:02PM[SHARE]Friday, June 6, 2025
St. Clair's Swan Song: Pacific Symphony's Volcanic Verdi's Requiem Last night, the walls of the Segerstrom Concert Hall didn't merely vibrate. They braced. Verdi's Requiem opened not with re…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 1, 2025
STERILE STAGING, FEROCIOUS VOICES: LA OPERA'S RIGOLETTO BLEEDS DESPITE ITSELF Let's be clear from the jump: this isn't your Nonna's Rigoletto. No 16th-century Italian costumes, no jester's h…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:29AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 31, 2025
ECHO: A CUBE WITH BIG DREAMS IN A SHOW STILL FINDING ITS SHAPE It opens with a cube. Glowing, two stories tall, and unmistakably the star of the show, this bold architectural gesture doesn't…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 25, 2025
Fractured Reflection: The Chinese Lady and the Cost of Being Seen She doesn't enter. She appears"still as a painting, but alive, watching. In Lloyd Suh's The Chinese Lady, now haunting the C…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:33PM[SHARE]Monday, May 12, 2025
Wilde at Heart: The Quiet Theatrics of A Man of No Importance Some musicals don't announce themselves. They drift in quietly, settle beside you, and before you know it, you're sitting there,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2025
MEMORY LOOPS AND ECHOES IN GARDNER'S THE STAIRCASE Rain doesn't fall in The Staircase. It lingers, heavy and waiting. Like a secret no one asked to hear. Like a mother halfway between a lull…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 3, 2025
THE TRUTH IS RARELY PURE, AND NEVER SAFE, IN TASTY LITTLE RABBIT There is a tender brutality in the way Robert Mammana shatters a glass plate negative under his heel in Moving Arts' ac…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:26PM[SHARE]Monday, April 28, 2025
REASONABLE DOUBT? NOT ABOUT LEGALLY BLONDE'S PINK POWER Let's get one thing straight. Legally Blonde: The Musical is not highbrow theater. It is not Sweeney Todd with meat pies and too-close…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 26, 2025
When There's A Second Knock On The Door: Love and Lockup in Furlough's Paradise In Furlough's Paradise, a. k. payne has crafted something that moves like a whisper but hits like a reckoning.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 20, 2025
END-OF-WORLD TRAGICOMEDY CRACKS, BLEEDS AND THRIVES The end arrives not with a sob, but with a drag queen in a glittering black pantsuit, standing in a celestial spotlight, grinning like the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:32AM[SHARE]IN CORKTOWN '39, THE LIVING ARE JUST GHOSTS WITH BETTER TIMING Mark Mendelson's tightly composed set at The Matrix Theatre is a room cloaked in aging wealth at the Keating family's Philadelp…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 12, 2025
A RIOTOUS CARRIAGE RIDE THROUGH TIME Somewhere between empire waistlines and leather harnesses, Regency Girls carves out a raucous, messy, and strangely moving place for itself onstage at Th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2025
EXIR, PURSUED BY MOVEMENT THAT CUTS DEEP Jealousy doesn't sneak in. It bursts. You can see it take hold of Leontes the second doubt flickers behind his eyes. His body folds in. Hands clutch …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 30, 2025
THE FAIRY TALES BREAK" AND THAT'S THE POINT The stories are still here. Cinderella. Jack. Little Red. Rapunzel. A Baker and his Wife, tangled in a curse and each other. Into the Woods has al…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 18, 2025
SWINGS BIG, SHINES BRIGHT All Roads Theatre Company just set the bar sky-high with One for My Baby, a slick, jazz-soaked tribute to the music of Harold Arlen. This is old-school showbiz at i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:35PM[SHARE]Monday, March 10, 2025
THE JAZZ AGE MEETS OPERA IN LA OPERA'S SEXY COSI Mozart's Così fan tutte started with royal scandal. In 1789, Emperor Joseph II commissioned the opera after a partner-swapping scandal sho…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 9, 2025
A WHISPER THAT ECHOES There are plays that knock you over with intensity. And there are those that seep in, settle under your skin, and stay there long after the lights come up. Adam Szymkow…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 6, 2025
YOU GO, GIRLS! San Diego's theater scene is about to get a jolt of excitement as The Old Globe prepares the pre-Broadway world premiere of Regency Girls, a bold and hilarious new musical com…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:06PM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2025
A SHAKESPEAREAN WESTERN MUSICAL? DON'T WORRY, IT MEASURES UP The wild west sizzles with song and chaos in Desperate Measures, the rootin'-tootin' Wild West musical shinin' bright at Internat…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2025
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHERE THE SUN DOESN'T COME OUT, SEE THIS NATIONAL TOUR OF ANNIE If the sun will come out tomorrow, somebody better tell this production. The national non-equity tour of A…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2025
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON. HIS NAME IS ALEXANDER ROBERTSON. At the tender age of 26, Alexander Robertson has made a mark on Broadway as a co-producer with his current show roster including Cabaret…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 15, 2025
BACON SIZZLES If you're in search of a play that simmers with tension before scorching the stage with raw, emotional fire, English playwright Sophie Swithinbank's Bacon, currently searing au…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2025
THE END OF THE WORLD COMES WITH A COFFEEE BREAK There's something eerily familiar about the way Michael Redfield and Hugo Armstrong zip and unzip their parkas in Will Arbery's haunting new p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 22, 2025
A MUSICAL PAIRING WRITTEN IN THE STARS Jason Robert Brown, the revered composer-lyricist who is considered by many as the natural successor to the late great Stephen Sondheim, graced Samueli…
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