Friday, July 4, 2025
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…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 14, 2025
COMFORTABLE HOMEY FOLK SHARE A SWEET STORY Book and music creators Steve Martin (yes, THAT Steve Martin) and Edie Brickell heard a true story from 1902 and became somewhat obsessed with it. …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 11, 2025
NOT YOUR GRANDMA'S 1776 Until Hamilton, if you'd asked me if I liked rap music, you'd have gotten a pretty quick, "No." And I still do cringe at the memories of cars driving up my street wit…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:46PM[SHARE]Monday, May 5, 2025
MUSICAL ROM-COM PROM IS DA BOMB! Oh, the high school prom! Has any event, short of one's wedding perhaps, ever been given more stress-inducing over-attention? Who to bring, what to wear, how…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 23, 2025
SWEETLY PLAYFUL TREATMENT OF A COMPLICATED PLOT The prolific author Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was the creator of 66 novels, 14 volumes of short stories and 20 plays, ten of which have been…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2025
WHAT'S IN A NAME? A LOT WHEN IT'S "CLINTON" "Feelings are a terrible way to make decisions, Bill." "Yes, but people don't think you have any." Reviewing this show is almost like reviewing tw…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 15, 2025
THESE WINGS ARE FLAMING IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE In our divided nation, there are still a few universals that bring us together. Puppies. Mother's Day. Pizza. And, tagging close behind on the p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:26AM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2025
I had a blind date. I waited two hours on the corner. A girl walked by. I said, "Are you Louise?'" She said, "Are you Rodney?" I said, "Yeah." She said, 'I'm not Louise." Â Â " Rodney …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]TRUE ZEST IN TRUE WEST As my sixtieth year on earth winds down, I'd like to believe those years have seasoned me with a strong degree of wisdom, patience, and finesse. As I said, I'd like to…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 19, 2025
WE, THE THEATRE, IN ORDER TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION Heidi Schreck wrote this mostly-autobiographical play and starred in it when it played on Broadway, where it was Tony-nominated for Bes…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 12, 2025
GANESHA GRANTS GRACE IN A GLORIOUSLY GRITTY JOURNEY The Hindu religion has multiple gods. Ganesha, also called Ganesh, is revered as the god of wisdom, luck, and beginnings. His beloved spir…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 4, 2025
THIS WILD RIDE SHOULD BE DOOLEY NOTED Francis Gercke"both the playwright and Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company's artistic director"welcomed the audience prior to the matinee. During his g…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:57AM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2025
CONTINUOUSLY ENTERTAINING What's most striking about the excellent we are continuous by Harrison David Rivers (The Bandaged Place, This Bitter Earth) is that it doesn't just break the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:53PM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2025
GOOD GOLLY, MISS DOLLY! Under Randy Slovacek's direction for San Diego Musical Theatre, Hello, Dolly! festoons the theater with a cumulatively enchanting restoration of this infectious delig…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 2, 2025
NEIL SIMON IN PALM SPRINGS WITH AN AGENDA Jon Robin Baitz' Broadway drama Other Desert Cities "which opens this week at Cygnet Theatre"depicts a crisis of apparent betrayal and imminent expo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:34PM[SHARE]Friday, January 31, 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 02:50AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 25, 2025
IT'S WORTH WAITING UNTIL DARK Playwright Frederick Knott's Wait Until Dark debuted on Broadway in 1966, set in the contemporary world of its time in Greenwich Village. Lamplighters is now…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:47AM[SHARE]Friday, January 17, 2025
BACK TO BACK TO THE FUTURE For those of us old enough to remember the summer of '85, when the movie Back to the Future reigned in movie theaters, here's a daunting thought: Marty's 30-year t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Monday, January 13, 2025
YOU'LL BUY THIS HEART In my ninth-grade English class, Mr. Rozran taught that a short story, versus a novel, should aim to capture a small slice of life, leaving much of what happened before…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2024
PICTURE IT: MIAMI, 1985, AGAIN, BUT WITH SINGING When Bea Arthur initially gave a firm "No" to participating in the 80s sit-com The Golden Girls, she nearly denied millions of soon-to-be loy…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:58PM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2024
THESE CREATURES ARE DEFINITELY STIRRING UP HOLIDAY SPIRT AT LAMPLIGHTERS Ken Ludwig's story begins with a homey Uncle Brierly (Christopher T. Miller) wanting to read to us the famous poem th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 26, 2024
LITTLE WOMEN WITH A BIG PRESENCE Allen Knee took on a daunting task in creating a play from Louise Mae Alcott's hefty 1868"69 two-volume novel, but he also cuts back the narrative for the mu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:11PM[SHARE]Friday, November 22, 2024
A PLAY THAT RAISES THE ESCOBAR Pablo Escobar was a Colombian drug lord, narcoterrorist, and corrupt politician who founded and ran the deadly MedellÃn Cartel. Known as "the king of cocain…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 13, 2024
EVERYTHING ODD IS NEW AGAIN Before ABC-TV made 114 episodes of the 1970-1975 sit-com The Odd Couple starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugma), there was the movie starring Jack Lemmon and Walte…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 15, 2024
TALLULAH'S BACK IN TOWN, DAHLING! "Don't touch my purse! Touching a woman's purse is like touching her vagina! Except, I can only put so much in my purse." Not quite a lady-like quote fo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 10, 2024
WILL YOU STILL NEED ME, WHEN I'M (LOOKING) SIXTY-FOUR? How would you live your life if you knew you were going to die of old age … in your late teens? All teens experience appearance issue…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2024
THERE'S SOMETHING GOOD IN ROTTEN So you're a somewhat-talented duo of playwrights, living in 1595 England, with actors eager to work with you and a benefactor hiring you to produce a play. W…
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