Saturday, May 16, 2026
THE WOMEN LEFT OFFSTAGE Lauren Gunderson reclaims Shakespeare’s sidelined women in a sharp, emotionally intelligent companion piece to Hamlet The women in Hamlet exist largely to reflect H…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 15, 2026
LORD HAVE MERCY! Roustabouts Theatre's irreverent comedy lets Samantha Ginn unleash a hilariously blunt deity Samantha Ginn Playwright David Javerbaum pulls no punches in this hysterical, ir…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 11, 2026
HOW TO SUCCEED IN PRODUCING A MUSICAL Offices tend not to be much fun, which is why they are ripe for exploring undertones of emotion and comedy in scripts like Office Space, Working Girl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 10, 2026
HOPE WITH CALLOUSED HANDS: A QUIET MASTERPIECE REVISITED John Steinbeck's play Of Mice and Men came quickly after the success of his novella by the same name. In fact, the play opened on Bro…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:59AM[SHARE]Monday, January 26, 2026
A NEIGHBORLY NICE LADY" WITH BUZZ ALDRIN IN HER HEAD Susan Clausen shines in Ian August's funny, surreal one-woman ride Reading the press blurb about Donna Orbits the Moon left me scratching…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 25, 2026
TENDERNESS IS BOUNTIFUL IN LAMB'S PRODUCTION A Horton Foote gem, staged with patience, grace, and heart The Trip to Bountiful began as a staged-for-TV play in early 1953 and then had a very …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:57PM[SHARE]Monday, December 15, 2025
A VINTAGE-STYLE HOLIDAY CONCERT A warmly nostalgic night of classic music, crooning, and dance Imagine that it's 1962. You and your spouse decide to get a sitter and go down to the "club" be…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 11, 2025
THE SOUP OF THE DAY IS A DARK BROTH INDEED There's a game some couples play when they're out and about: they make up lives about the strangers they see in places like diners. Part of what ma…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:19PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 6, 2025
NOSTALGIA LOADED " AND EYE SAFETY ENSURED The 1983 film A Christmas Story may not have been universally crowned a "classic" when it premiered, its near-universal popularity and nostalgic loo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:36PM[SHARE]Friday, November 28, 2025
HER MIND, OUR MEMORY Kenneth Lonergan's family fissures hit hard in Backyard Renaissance's intimate staging What an incredibly robust month November has been for smaller theaters in San Dieg…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 19, 2025
BEAUTY GETS MORE THAN SKIN DEEP Beauty's Daughter is a one-woman play by Dael Orlandersmith that centers on Diane, a young Black woman growing up in East Harlem, as she navigates a world mar…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 16, 2025
CALLOUS CALLAS CASTS A CAPTIVATING CHARACTER Maria Callas (1923-1977) was unquestionably one of the finest opera singers of the twentieth century. The mix of her great talent with her being …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2025
A DELIGHTFUL LITTLE SCRIPT"FOR SHAW! Best known for Pygmalion (which was adapted into My Fair Lady), Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw challenged people's views on social issues, inclu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:46AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 18, 2025
OSBORNE TO DO LITTLE SHOP In 1960, a peculiar minor film (featuring a minor appearance by an up-and-coming Jack Nicholson) was released to no particular fanfare with good reason: It was pret…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 4, 2025
SMALL IS EPIC In his exceptional how-to book Storyworthy, author and storyteller Matthew Dicks advises us to stop recounting tales that few can relate to " like the time you climbed Mt. Ever…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 3, 2025
A GREAT MUSICAL, SUFFS REMINDS US THAT DEMOCRACY ONLY MOVES FORWARD WHEN WOMEN DO While much of what we love in musicals is pure fiction, history has had an undeniable flair for the dramatic…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:57AM[SHARE]A GREAT MUSICAL, SUFFS REMINDS US THAT DEMOCRACY ONLY MOVES FORWARD WHEN WOMEN DO While much of what we love in musicals is pure fiction, history has had an undeniable flair for the dramatic…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:57AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 20, 2025
A FAR CRY FROM MISERABLE (UNLESS YOU'RE ONE OF THE CHARACTERS) There's a lot to gripe about in the world in 2025, but you know what? Spend a little time in 1815 France and you're going t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2025
GLITTER, GHOSTS AND GOLDEN-AGE GLAMOUR: DESPITE THE SCRIPT, CYGNET'S FOLLIES MAKES A BIG SPLASH AT THE JOAN Cygnet Theatre staked the debut of their new theater complex "The Joan" on a fairl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]BESIDE MYSELF WITH PRAISE When the lights came up at the end of Act I of Beside Myself, my immediate reaction was, "No!" I was so invested in the proceedings of this stupendous world premier…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 2, 2025
HOW TO SUCCEED IN HISTORY WITHOUT REALLY TELLING IT Meet Lettice Douffet (Bobbi Randall), an eccentric tour guide at Fustian House, a drab Tudor mansion. Burdened with delivering its painful…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2025
CORN-FED HUMOR LEAVES A SWEET TASTE I entered the Civic Theatre braced for a two-hour version of Hee Haw (not a compliment) and wondered if I'd be checking my watch by halfway through Act I …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:48PM[SHARE]Friday, August 1, 2025
EVERYONE WILL LIKE IT HOT It wouldn't be a valid review to simply write, "I loved it!" a hundred times and ship it off to my editor. However, if you're looking for a bottom line or a simple …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00PM[SHARE]Friday, July 18, 2025
BEFORE HANSEL, THERE WAS, HELL YEAH, GRETEL! Witches. Talking dolls. Folk and rock music. Chicken-legged houses. If that doesn't get your attention, then you may already be inside Baba Yaga'…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 13, 2025
THE MAGNOLIAS MAY BE STEELY, BUT THEY STILL SMELL PRETTY SWEET For over 80 years, Lamplighters Community Theatre has been providing an important role in San Diego's theatre scene: creating a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:54PM[SHARE]Friday, July 4, 2025
A GREAT 70s TRIBUTE HAS VINYL-LY ARRIVED Normally, calling a show predictable isn't a compliment. But when I heard that director Kerry Meads and musical director Vanda Eggington were once ag…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:45AM[SHARE]STILL PLENTY TO DESIRE A Streetcar Named Desire was one of the greatest hits for playwright Tennessee Williams. Born in 1911, he didn't have any major successes until The Glass Menagerie pre…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 25, 2025
OKLAHOMA! RIDES AGAIN" THIS TIME WITH DEPTH IN THE SADDLE When gay playwright Lynn Riggs wrote the rather dark Green Grow the Lilacs, his eighth play, and saw it produced in 1931, it's likel…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 14, 2025
A MUSICAL SALTIER THAN SALT LAKE ITSELF Let's start the actual religious text called The Book of Mormon, published in 1830. Without going into all its details about other planets, Jesus visi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2025
UNNECESSARY, PERHAPS, BUT DELICIOUS! Wikipedia defines farce as "a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 20, 2025
FORGET THE USUAL " MOXIE IS SERVING A TENDER STORY WITH A SIDE OF TRUTH Not every good story needs to take you around the world in eighty days or off to a magical land with wizards; sometime…
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