Tuesday, July 30, 2024
IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A GREAT JOB, HEAD TO THE HAYES THEATRE Two plays on therapy sessions presented at the same time a few blocks apart certainly show a phycological trend among young New Y…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 17, 2024
IN A DELICIOUSLY CLAUSTROPHOBIC BOX AT OUT OF THE BOX Out of the Box Theatrics is presenting an intimate, hilarious, original play called Inspired by True Events " written…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin: Yes, sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Benjamin: Yes, I am. Mr. McGuire: Plastics. Benjamin: Exactly how do you m…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 13, 2024
WE'VE GOT TO GET OURSELVES BACK TO THE GARDEN When The Sheen Center announced Ed. Weinberger's new play The Journals of Adam and Eve starring Hal Linden and Marilu Henner, I thou…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 30, 2024
MUCH NOTHING ABOUT ADO Presenters Kelsey Grammer and Faith American Brewing Company offer a production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing at the Gene Frankel Theatre that is a daring…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Friday, June 28, 2024
A SUMMER NIGHT THAT SMILES THREE HUNDRED TIMES Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's delightful musical A Little Night Music is is an adaptation of the Bergman's 1955 film Smiles of a Summer N…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2024
EXTREME VALUE Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to the Joyce Theater with Extreme Taylor, bringing back some of the Maestro's classic works. The program I saw included Private Domai…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AM[SHARE]Monday, May 27, 2024
TWAS BRILLIG! YOU'LL GET A HEART-ON IN THIS SEXY HOLE "All in the golden afternoon. / Full leisurely we glide" is part of the opening poem of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 23, 2024
A NEW SPECIES OF ACTRESS Maia Novi's Invasive Species is a topsy-turvy meta play that reflects its plot: a moment in the life of a confused young woman infected with the acting bug. Or…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2024
JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY Julia Masli's show Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha has finally arrived at the SoHo Playhouse after a successful run last year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe an…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 12, 2024
OH, THE HUMANITY! Remember the 80s? Reaganomics here, Thatcherism abroad, apartheid, the tragedy of AIDS that ended up killing more than 700,000 people in the US alone, materialism, consumer…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:34PM[SHARE]Friday, May 10, 2024
GIGGLE JUICE If you love big-band jazz and swing music played by masters, or if you are a tourist and you wish to truly feel the beat of New York's roots, you must go to Birdland Jazz Club's…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Two five-star Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows are now at the Players Theatre and you don't want to miss them. Modern Witches is a solo show written and performed by Katie Kopajtic " a …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 4, 2024
 YOU'LL SAY UNCLE Anton Chekhov's 1897 Uncle Vanya is a comic tragedy and one of the hardest plays to stage because the main actors have a significant change of identity througho…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:24PM[SHARE]Friday, May 3, 2024
A MEAL THAT'S HARD TO DIGEST Staff Meal at Playwrights Horizons is a light, surreal play with many points and no resolutions, intentionally unclear, written by Abe Koogler and direc…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 2, 2024
REIGNITING TAMARA DE LEMPICKA [Editor's Note: Even with tonal problems, I enjoyed Lempicka, but a crowded season won out, and the new musical officially closes on May 19, 2024. Therefore, we…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:04PM[SHARE]SOUND AND FURY INDEED "When the hurly-burly's done, when the battle's lost and won," says a Witch to introduce my favorite cursed play by the Bard, and I immediately crave medieval witches, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 28, 2024
A PLAY FOR THE PEOPLE Written by Ibsen in 1882, An Enemy of the People is a powerful drama that reminds us, as a discouraging premonition, how people would go against truth and honesty…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2024
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP Lia Romeo's Still at the DR2 Theatre, is a moving, intimate play starring two confident actors, Jayne Atkinson as Helen and Tim Daly as Mark, who inhabit…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:38PM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2024
A STEREOPHONIC SHOW WITH A MONOPHONIC SCRIPT Stereophonic was so evenly cherished by critics in its Off-Broadway run at Playwrights Horizons that it transferred to Broadway, where it opened …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 7, 2024
A FISH OUT OF WATER The use of drama as a didactic tool usually works when we are learning new things or seeing old things through a different lens. Kia Corthron's Fish at Theater Row sta…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 2, 2024
PUSSY POWER How can we eradicate misogyny? Meet vagina dentata, a penis-eating vagina, the product of an ancient folk tale that exists in virtually every culture, and it has now landed at Pl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:42PM[SHARE]Friday, March 29, 2024
DOG AND PONY SHOW Looking at the long line that stretched all the way to 7th Avenue to get inside the 1920s Imperial Theatre, I thought I was about to see a masterpiece. I was not familiar w…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:17PM[SHARE]Monday, March 25, 2024
ONE FOR THE NOTEBOOKS While specialty branded tissue boxes are sold for $5 at the merch stands, the ushers at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre should insert more in the playbill of The No…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 23, 2024
READY FOR A HOT BATH? Staged at The Flea Theater in Manhattan between the FBI building and an apocalyptic AT&T windowless high tower, Bathhouse.pptx " described as a "group project for p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2024
AN ENGAGING FISHBURNE DOES A SLOW BURN Who doesn't want to see Laurence Fishburne in a solo play he describes as "The stories and lies people have told me. And that I have told myself"? The …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2024
TAKING STOCK OF THE MURDOCH AFTERSHOCK: HACK. LIE. INTIMIDATE. CORRUPT. BEGIN AGAIN. Welcome to Rupert Murdoch's wicked, treacherous media empire where everybody is under surveillance and ca…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:20AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 17, 2024
THE IDES HAVE IT It's 44 BCE, March 15, and Julius Caesar walks toward his death, changing the course of Western history. Exactly 2,067 years later, at the West End Theater in New York, a co…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 22, 2024
FOR THOSE WHO THINK "RESCUE ME" AT JUKEBOX MUSICALS, "I KNOW A PLACE" WHERE A NEW 60s MUSICAL WILL CHANGE THAT "When you're alone, and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown,"…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:45PM[SHARE]Monday, February 19, 2024
GULPING FOR BREATH BETWEEN TWO-HUNDRED LAUGHS What a unique, congenial, brilliantly imaginative show! You will laugh for a very long time and, if you are a European descendant, you will feel…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 14, 2024
WARRIOR THEATER It's the beginning of the Year of the Dragon, and one of the best ways to celebrate it is seeing a classic Chinese epic. The Pan Asian Repertory Theatre is pre…
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