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…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 17, 2025
THE FINE ART OF A THREE-MAN MASTERPIECE Yasmina Reza's Art returned to Broadway last night starring Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Cannavale, and James Corden, and it is a tight, acidic joyride …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:01AM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2025
THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A PLAY Writing short plays is a refined art unto itself, demanding precision, discipline, and a flair for economy that borders on the surgical, a very difficult t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 28, 2025
When I hear the name Pericles, I naturally think of the great Athenian statesman who helped shape democracy in the 5th century BC, a true hero of history. It is amusing that Shakespeare and …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:07AM[SHARE]Friday, August 22, 2025
YOU WILL ABSOLUTELY WHAT YOU WILL While we are still grappling with questions of gender, identity, and societal roles like troglodytes, we need to remember that Shakespeare was exploring the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 19, 2025
JOIN THIS TOP BANANA FOR THE RIDE OF THE SUMMER If you're heading to the Nederlander Theatre expecting Jeff Ross to come out swinging with savage roasts about Charlie Sheen's liver or Elon M…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2025
AMAZE TURNS SLEIGHT OF HAND INTO SLEIGHT OF HEART; THE MOST DAZZLING TRICK IS MAKING YOU CARE Jamie Allan, the UK's original technology magician, brings his new work Amaze to New York's New …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2025
ANIMATION, POLITICS, AND THE ART OF BEING HUMAN Cameron Darwin Bossert's The Animals Speak closes his Disney-centered trilogy A Venomous Color (produced by Thirdwing) which began with The Fa…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 7, 2025
THE WEIGHT OF WHAT REMAINS In Brooklyn's charming Fort Greene, Bubba Weiler makes his playwriting debut with Well, I'll Let You Go, a lightly funny meditation on grief and healing, brought t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Hollywood is full of iconic love stories but none is quite as brilliantly weird and tragically sweet as the romance between Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner, two comedy legends who fell madly in…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 23, 2025
SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED: PEN PALS GETS AN ENCORE RUN Casting has been revealed for Michael Griffo's play Pen Pals, which is headed back Off-Broadway at DR2 Theatre with a rotating cast …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:35PM[SHARE]Monday, July 21, 2025
GHOSTS POURED NEAT Conor McPherson's The Weir, a beloved staple for Irish Rep, returns for its fourth production under the intimate, finely tuned direction of Ciarán O'Reilly. This unusua…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 16, 2025
BLOOM WITH A VIEW In the heart of New York's Meatpacking District, beneath the High Line and Chelsea Market, ARTECHOUSE's latest immersive installation, Blooming Wonders, invites visitors in…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:57PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 28, 2025
IN THIS BEAUTIFULLY MOODY MAZE, THE LINE BETWEEN ENCHANTMENT AND ENTRAPMENT BLURS I have yet to encounter an immersive theatrical experience that captivates me as deeply as a well-staged pla…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 26, 2025
MIC DROP IN A MINEFIELD Last night, the Lucille Lortel Theatre unveiled Duke & Roya, a luminous new work by the compelling playwright Charles Randolph-Wright. Under the graceful directio…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 25, 2025
ABT'S GISELLE IS A TRU RENAISSANCE OF ROMANTICISM Very few ballets have made their mark like Giselle, the jewel of Romantic dance. It emerged in 1841, at the height of an era when people wer…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 5, 2025
Sick of It All"and Loving Every Minute: Molière's Hypochondriac Gets a Hilarious Check-Up Molière's final theatrical work, The Imaginary Invalid, is a scalpel-sharp satire of medicine and …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2025
BUZZARDS, BOOTY, AND BECOMING NSangou Njikam's A Freeky Introduction soars with swagger, satire, and sacred disruption. "An eagle was born in a nest of buzzards," proclaimed playwright and p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Friday, May 23, 2025
CHEKHOV WITH TEETH For those who've never bought the notion that Chekhov's The Seagull is simply about broken hearts, director Alexander Molochnikov's take on the play offers a thrilling, su…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 20, 2025
GODDESS ISN'T JUST A SHOW, IT'S A CALLING. ANSWER IT. Goddess, which opened at The Public Theater tonight, doesn't just arrive onstage like any musical"but like a warm and joyful jazz riff. …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:42PM[SHARE]THIS ROLLING STONE JUST OPENED, AND ALREADY IT'S GATHERING MOSS If Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified were a device, it would be the BlackBerry of rock retrospectives. It is an earnest, well-…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:44AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 4, 2025
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." ~ Oscar Wilde The Louvre, Uffizi, and Hermitage may dazzle you with their emphasis on fine arts, the British Museum …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 23, 2025
A NIGHT TO REMEMBER Walking into the New York Irish Center in Long Island City for the first time to see a show feels a bit like stumbling into a well-kept secret; it's an intimate gathering…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:29AM[SHARE]Friday, April 18, 2025
CHERRIES WITH A FEW PITS Anton Chekhov's final play, The Cherry Orchard, is a masterwork of dramatic irony. It was written in 1903 as a dark comedy but it was always more akin to a tragedy, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 13, 2025
FIERCE CRAIC A really enjoyable, light-hearted, raucous comedy just opened at The Irish Repertory Theatre: the world premiere of Irishtown by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth, directed by Nicola Murphy…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 10, 2025
The Martha Graham Dance Company is back at The Joyce for its 99th season with a new dance concert titled Dances of the Mind, featuring 11 works across three programs through April 13, 2025. …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2025
Brecht once said, "In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times." This must have been the inspiration for A Mother, a truly amusing collect…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:40PM[SHARE]LIFE IS LIKE A CARTON OF EGGS; YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET UNTIL YOU CRACK ONE OPEN How do we cope with the loss of control in a crisis? Imagine two couples (one from Manhattan, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2025
URINE FOR A GOOD TIME SO, MIND YOUR PEES AND QUEUES It's the perfect time for a Urinetown revival. Twenty-four years after its successful Broadway debut, City Center's Encores! returns with …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2025
THE BONES OF GREAT THEATER Wakka Wakka, the Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning theater company, returns with Dead as a Dodo, a surreal and darkly humorous production at the Baruch Performing …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 12, 2025
RUNNING FOR ONE'S LIFE St. Ann's Warehouse " one of the most eclectic and vibrant venues in New York " is now presenting another cutting-edge production, the North American premiere of Irani…
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