Wednesday, May 15, 2019
WELL DONE HAVING FUN ON THE RUN AS A NUN Don't you just hate it when your boyfriend turns out to be a mobster and murders someone right in front of you, forcing you to flee and hide " all wh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2019
THE VOICE BEHIND THE VOICES Ventre Loqui: To speak from the belly. This is the etymology of the word ventriloquism, an art as old as … well, it depends who you ask. For some, there is no o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:56PM[SHARE]Friday, March 29, 2019
CHAPSCHTICK It's 1944. The war is raging across the English Channel and the Germans could invade at any moment. Britain needs levity to get through these tough days. Miles (Charles Evans, Jr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:23PM[SHARE]Monday, March 25, 2019
THANK GOD IT'S FREAKY FRIDAY On the weekend of her mother's everything-must-be-perfect second wedding, teenager Ellie (Rivers Harris) is in a funk: little brother Fletcher (John Perry Wishch…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:17PM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2019
TENSION, HUMOR, AND INTRIGUE IN BEGUILING WWII DRAMEDY There would be much better places to live in 1943 than on the German-occupied British island of Guernsey, especially if you are shelter…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 17, 2019
LETTERS FROM THE LOVELORN LEAP OFF THE PAGE Dear Sugar, I have a problem. My editor assigned me to review a play that does not follow conventional theater techniques, has only one known char…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 16, 2019
A SWEET EMBRACEABLE SHOW In 1930, a musical called Girl Crazy, with a score by George and Ira Gershwin, opened on Broadway to moderate success, running 272 performances. The rarely-revived s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 16, 2018
WHO DOES HE THINK SHE IS? Him…Her…Them…Zir…Hir? In the transgender and non-binary community, the struggle with pronouns almost rivals the struggle with civil rights. Hir, now …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 11, 2018
LET THE SPIRIT MOVE YOU TO NORTH COAST REP Is it bigamy if you’re still seeing your first wife while married to your second? Does your answer change if the first wife has been dead for…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:15PM[SHARE]Monday, August 13, 2018
EVEN WHEN YOU'RE HAIR CAN'T HOLD UP, THIS MUSICAL CAN To say you like Hairspray really doesn’t cut it. Do you mean the 1988 John Waters film starring Devine and newcomer Ricki Lake? Or…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2018
A FUNNY THING’S HAPPENING AT NORTH COAST REP Only in Ancient Rome! Pseudolus, the wise-cracking slave (Omri Schein), can earn his freedom if he can somehow get the pretty, bubble-heade…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 10, 2018
THE HOLY GRAIL OF SILLY MUSICALS The tales of King Arthur and his knights of the round table stand as icons of literature, leaving them ripe for outrageous parody in Monty Python’s 197…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:10AM[SHARE]Monday, June 25, 2018
PARTING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW AFTER A PLAY THIS GOOD “What’s in a name?” Juliet famously asks. A lot, if the name is Ruff Yeager. Yeager, a co-founder of Roustabouts, has be…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 5, 2018
FROM ORANGE JUICE TO A PIE IN THE FACE "What these people really want, hidden behind obscure legal phrases, is the legal right to propose to our children that theirs is an acceptable alterna…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:22AM[SHARE]Monday, May 14, 2018
SOME ENCHANTED EVENING, INDEED Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1949 Broadway hit South Pacific is so full of familiar, classic numbers that it almost feels like a Broadway review in itself …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2018
ONE COULD GO ON AND ON FOR OFF Half the fun of theater is in the performance; the other half is in the rehearsal. Rehearsal is the time for experimenting, bonding, and watching everything co…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 15, 2018
JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED: A JOYFUL MESSAGE There is an ancient Chinese proverb: "The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher." In the musical Soul Do…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 27, 2018
WOULD SHAKESPEARE BY ANY OTHER PLAYWRIGHT SMELL AS SWEET? If the title King Charles III sounds rather Shakespearean, yet you cannot recall a “Charles” among all his Henrys …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:43AM[SHARE]Monday, March 19, 2018
A JEWISH JOKE WAS NO LAUGHING MATTER IN THE 1950s When the nation went into Commie panic in the '40s and '50s, one of the first places to get hard hit was Hollywood. In 1947, Congress's Hous…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2018
CYGNET DIDN’T SEND IN ANY CLOWNS ON THIS ONE Much like modern art, Steven Sondheim musicals aren’t for everyone. They are purposefully discordant in places, often dark in ton…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 14, 2018
WELL-PLANNED IRONIES Facebook and LinkedIn have illuminated the error in the supposed six degrees of separation theory, which asserts that all living things and everything else in the world …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 24, 2018
THREE GREAT MINDS MAKE FOR INTRIGUING THEATER There’s a game where you get to pick three famous people and go to dinner with all of them. In Mark St. Germaine’s Camping with …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 30, 2018
THE LAST WIFE GETS IT RIGHT Historical fiction can be a dicey game, let alone a modernization of historical figures. When the results are as captivating as Kate Hennig’s The Last Wife,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 28, 2018
THE FULL MONTY IS WORTH BARING IN MIND When the main factory in town shuts down and only menial work, far below previous pay grade, can be found, what’s a man supposed to do? For the t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:42AM[SHARE]Monday, October 30, 2017
EVIL RIGHT AT HAND What could go wrong when a newly widowed mom leads three teens in a wholesome, Lutheran, extra-curricular church class tasked with creating a Christian puppet show? Thankf…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 24, 2017
GEORGIA MCBRIDE AIN’T NO DRAG Playwright Matthew Lopez (The Whipping Man) has created a theatrical recipe: Take one part Torch Song Trilogy, mix in some La Cage aux Folles and, for …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:27AM[SHARE]Monday, October 2, 2017
A HERO’S JOURNEY FROM 1862 SPEAKS VOLUMES FOR OUR TIMES Father Comes Home from the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3 first played in 2014 at NYC's Public Theater, yet Suzan-Lori Parks' play pre…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:28AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 24, 2017
TOO BIG FOR ITS BRITCHES With his touching screenplay as a basis, Lee Hall adapted the 2000 indie Billy Elliot for the stage, setting his moving lyrics to Elton John’s music. There&…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:53PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 23, 2017
WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL ADAPTATION MADE EVEN BETTER BY BRYCE PINKHAM It’s tricky turning a movie into a play, given that without the auteur’s camera gimmicks and edits, it can be …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 13, 2017
THE EFFECT OF GOOD THEATER “You know, maybe someday you will be pretty,” says Beatrice to her teenage daughter Tillie. Gee, thanks, Mom. Ah, mothers. The Glass Menagerie. Ord…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 9, 2017
DON’T CRY, BUT SEE ARGENTINA The crime of being a legend is to be simultaneously loved and hated, while the truth will always be a matter of perspective and interpretation. Eva Duarte,…
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