Wednesday, May 13, 2026
FIFTY YEARS LATER, STILL MAKING HISTORY A glittering lineup of musical giants turned Carnegie Hall’s anniversary celebration into an overwhelming tribute to artistic endurance Move over ME…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 25, 2026
FINDING YOUR SONG Debbie Allen’s revival honors Wilson’s depth with a richly realized production The Barrymore Theatre’s revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, dire…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2026
A LITTLE SIN, A LOT OF GIN A fizzy Noël Coward comedy where anticipation —and alcohol—do the heavy lifting There is a particular kind of overupholstered, well-mannered, and suffocating …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:03PM[SHARE]Monday, April 13, 2026
LAND, LABOR, AND THE BODY Luke Murphy's dance-theatre work turns ownership into something visceral and urgent St. Ann's Warehouse unveils Scorched Earth, a striking dance-theatre work from A…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 11, 2026
POWER, CONTROL, AND WHAT LURKS BENEATH Shanley's psychological thriller simmers with tension, even when it overreaches John Patrick Shanley digs back into power and vulnerability in The Push…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2026
CHEKHOV, REIMAGINED IN BEAUTIFUL CHAOS Dmitry Krymov turns a classic into a surreal theatrical hallucination There are many ways to stage Anton Chekhov. You can do it the traditional way wit…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 2, 2026
FEAST ON THIS: BLOOD, REVENGE, AND A SHOCKINGLY GOOD TIME A ferocious, darkly funny take that makes Shakespeare's grisliest play thrillingly alive (Back) Anthony Michael Martinez, Zack Lopez…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2026
THREE STYLES, ONE ELECTRIFYING COMPANY A vibrant program that moves effortlessly from sensual modernism to jazzy precision to kinetic abstraction Hubbard Street Dance Chicago returns to The …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2026
CHEKHOV BEFORE THE MASTERPIECES A lean, lucid revival reveals Ivanov as an early, electric study of burnout, longing, and emotional paralysis Zachary Desmond, Paul Niebank, Casey Worthington…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2026
EDWARDIAN ANXIETIES, COMEDIC COMFORT A rediscovered British comedy reminds us that decency"not money or status" may be the most radical virtue of all When the news of war grows terrifying, a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 10, 2026
OPERA, DRAG, AND THE POLITICS IN BETWEEN Adrienne Truscott and Le Gateau Chocolat gleefully explore identity, allyship, and the "grey areas" where ideology and performance collide Grey Arias…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2026
FULL SPEED AHEAD Pony Cam turns burnout, chaos, and cardio into delirious theater Dominic Weintraub, Claire Bird, Hugo Williams, William Strom Are you, perhaps, missing the wild energy of Bl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2026
A POWER LUNCH WITH KNIVES UNDER THE TABLE Ambition, rivalry, and assimilation simmer in Alex Lin's sharp corporate comedy There are ordinary lunches, and then there are Chinese Republicans l…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:43PM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2026
A FAIRY TALE REBORN IN HEELS, CORSETS, AND CANDLELIGHT Little Red gets very bad " and very fabulous " in Company XIV's Petite Rouge PhillVonAwesome In its twentieth anniversary season, Compa…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:01AM[SHARE]Friday, February 27, 2026
AFTER BIRTH Meat Suit is a carnival of motherhood that mistakes provocation for revelation Meat Suit, or the Shitshow of Motherhood, a Second Stage Theater production which opened last night…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:59AM[SHARE]Friday, February 20, 2026
A RECOVERY GROUP WHERE LITTLE IS REVEALED AND LESS IS RESOLVED Superb performances anchor a script that withholds more than it delivers In the 1980s, film snobs treated TV like it had crashe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 12, 2026
ESPERANZA SPALDING'S HOMEMADE FIELD OF LOVE A communal cleansing at Carnegie Hall Stepping out at night this winter requires real chutzpah because New York City is absolutely freezing, but y…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:30PM[SHARE]Monday, February 2, 2026
JOYCE'S ODYSSEY ON STAGE Elevator Repair Service turns the impossible into a joyous theatrical sprint Beloved, despised, or abandoned halfway through by most readers, Joyce's Ulysses is one …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 28, 2025
A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE, UP CLOSE AND BREATH-BY-BREATH Opera this intimate feels less like a performance and more like a shared act of wonder This holiday season, multi-Grammy Award winner and O…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 17, 2025
MORAL ROT MASQUERADING AS VIRTUE Broderick underplays the zealot Tartuffe in Lucas Hnath's contemporary take, but the cast keeps the comedy crackling The art of looking virtuous while being …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:51AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 13, 2025
ENDURANCE, MANIA, AND THE WILL TO SURVIVE A raw solo performance that turns lived experience into hard-earned clarity Bipolar disorder, marked by its vertiginous highs and devastating lows, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:58AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 6, 2025
AN EXCEPTIONAL ENSEMBLE IN A CROWDED PLAY Immigrant stories echo through a Queens basement " and across decades ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ Queens i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:59AM[SHARE]Friday, November 21, 2025
THE NUTCRACKER: NOW WITH 69% MORE CRACK Because sometimes holiday spirit comes in fishnets and a martini glass While The Nutcracker graces stages worldwide, Brooklyn's Company XIV continues …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2025
Angelin Preljocaj has carved out a daring niche in the dance world, fusing classical ballet with contemporary flair to invent a unique, bold alphabet of movements. Now, the US premiere of Ba…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2025
ANDRÉ DE SHIELDS THE REDEEMER André De Shields should be a landmark; for over six decades, he has towered over the worlds of theatre, film, and television with the kind of presence that…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2025
RECONCILING WITH SHANLEY'S PAST In Italian American Reconciliation, playwright John Patrick Shanley, best known for Moonstruck and Doubt, returns to the Bronx of his youth where conversation…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2025
SWEET LIES, STICKY MEMORIES, BITTER GUILT; THE HONEY TRAP STINGS AT IRISH REP In Northern Ireland, The Troubles only ended some 25"30 years ago, though their tensions and legacies reach far …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:30PM[SHARE]Friday, October 3, 2025
Justice without mercy becomes punishment, and mercy without justice becomes apathy. But how do we strike the balance when the system and the society behind it seem to have forgotten both? In…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2025
WEATHER FORECAST: FUNNY AND SUNNY WITH A CHANCE OF ARMAGEDDON In recent years, I have watched a wave of productions by Millennial and Gen Z artists who are, quite understandably, petrified b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 20, 2025
DIGITAL DREAMS, SUPERCHARGED What happens when you combine a century-old boiler room, an army of graphics processing units (GPUs), and some of the most imaginative digital artists? You get S…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2025
TAKES FLIGHT AT TFANA: TRUTH, LIES AND QUACKING DELUSIONS While Shakespeare agonized over "to be or not to be," Henrik Ibsen was more concerned with "why is everyone being so fake?" It's exi…
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