Monday, February 26, 2024
JELLY'S JAM IS JAMMIN' THAT'S ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW Jelly Roll Morton was born Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe in New Orleans. Both his parents traced their Creole ancestry four generations back to …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 20, 2024
YOUR GOLDEN TICKET TO HIGH ADVENTURE …AND HIGH TEA What could entice a typical New Yorker to get up fairly early on a Saturday or Sunday morning and make the trip to a narrow side street i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 30, 2024
A KINGDOM DIVIDED Sam (Uly Schlesinger) is a bright, articulate and sincere young man. But he is also nervous, sensitive and bitter. In fact, he has recently attempted suicide. Actress Ruby …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:58PM[SHARE]Monday, January 15, 2024
AZNAVOUR IS YOUNG AGAIN Charles Aznavour hoped to be still singing before audiences on his 100th birthday. Unfortunately, he died in 2018 at the age of 94. But Jules Grison is celebrating Az…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 1, 2023
UNIQUE, DELICIOUS, ENTERTAINING, MAGICAL No matter how many times illusionists deceive our eyes and mentalists read our minds, we are always amazed by their feats. This is certainly true of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 11, 2023
A FRANK PORTRAYAL Perhaps the most famous quote from Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl is "Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart." However, these words were writ…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 2, 2023
A DOCTORED PLAY NURSED BY JULIET STEVENSON Robert Icke's adaptation of Viennese dramatist Arthur Schnitzler's 1912 play, Professor Bernhardi might have been an interesting, if somewhat confu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 12, 2023
I HAVE A HUNCH YOU'LL LOVE THIS Victor Hugo published The Hunchback of Notre Dame, or Notre Dame de Paris in French, in 1831. Since that time the novel about Quasimodo, the hunchback and the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Friday, June 30, 2023
YES, ONE MORE TIME IS ONE MORE TIME ONE MORE TIME, BUT YOU'LL HAVE A GREAT TIME It well may be that there are no new plots left in the world of theater. But does that mean we have to keep se…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:42PM[SHARE]Monday, June 19, 2023
HOORAY FOR HOORAY Most songs became standards because they were made famous by popular singers. So it's easy to forget how many of them were introduced on the silver screen. Hooray for Holly…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:13AM[SHARE]Friday, June 9, 2023
YOU GOTTA LOVE IT Spring is in the air and so is love at 54 Below, where Scott Siegel is presenting Love Song Saturday Night, a monthly show where couples are encouraged to "swoon, raise a g…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Monday, May 22, 2023
Creating a musical is not an easy task. Finding backers to produce it is even more difficult. When creative people have the fortitude and faith to take on such an endeavor, one wants to be a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 16, 2023
ARE WE EVER GOING TO SAY GOODBYE TO GOODBYE GIRL? The 1977 film The Goodbye Girl, written by Neil Simon and directed by Herbert Ross, was the first romantic comedy to earn over $100 million …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 2, 2023
A WARM SUMMER From the moment we first see Diana (Laura Linney) and Alice (Jessica Hecht), the two friends whose story is told in David Auburn's new play, Summer, 1976, we know exactly who t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 30, 2023
A PUB CRAWL FROM FOLKLORE INTO FANTASY When a show is called The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, you can bet that it's going to be a bit surreal, somewhat disturbing and ultimately captiv…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:45AM[SHARE]Monday, March 27, 2023
NOT BAD, CINDERELLA These days Prince Charmings are not in style. Nor are Fairy Godmothers. So it's pretty hard to expect adults to take stories like Cinderella very seriously. Nevertheless,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:24AM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2023
WOMAN BECOMES A HIT Betty Smith is best known for her 1946 bestselling novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. But her first love was theater. When she was a child growing up in Brooklyn, she would…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2023
WANDERING WRITING The Wanderers, the new play by Anna Ziegler (Boy, A Delicate Ship, The Last Match, Another Way Home) now making its New York premiere with The Roundabout Theatre Company, c…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:15PM[SHARE]Friday, July 9, 2021
THE ATHENAEUM THEATRE IS BACK THIS SUMMER WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF ENTERTAINMENT ON ITS HISTORIC STAGES Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago's oldest continuously operating Off-Loop theatre is back, wit…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:38AM[SHARE]Monday, January 22, 2018
Anyone who's ever been in a school office will immediately recognize the verisimilitude of the set created for The Mad Ones
SOURCE: at 09:01PM[SHARE]Monday, December 4, 2017
If you're finding these dim days of December are a little dimmer than usual, give your heart cheer and your soul comfort with the pure goodness of a show that celebrates people who love, com…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 9, 2017
This double bill at TNFA is an amusing study in contrasts
SOURCE: at 08:13AM[SHARE]Friday, September 15, 2017
Avant-garde and absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco was born in Slatina, Romania to a Romanian father and a French-Romanian mother, and he wrote mostly in French. Not surprisingly, one does …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:41AM[SHARE]Monday, July 10, 2017
This wonderful revival by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene is at the Museum of Jewish Heritage through early August. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:00PM[SHARE]Monday, March 27, 2017
Anna Reeder does her best to make Courtney Baron's play as as much a pleasure to watch as she is. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:33AM[SHARE]these William Inge plays in rep do give us a picture of middle America back in the 1950s when jobs were still plentiful and boredom was the chief demon of those living in rural America, not …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 19, 2017
John Augustin Daly's once popular melodrama given a new life at the tiny Metropolitan Playhouse. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 28, 2016
a wonderful opportunity to see the play that inspired Paula Vogel's Broadway bound Indecent.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Super titles mean you don't have to speak Yiddish to enjoy this operetta. And you don't have to be Jewish. All you need is an open heart, a sense of humor and a love of life
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Arthur Miller's drama has come to be seen as a penetrating indictment of the American Dream but New Yiddish Rep's Yiddish translation opens up whole new vistas of interpretation
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:16PM[SHARE]Monday, July 27, 2015
often familiar, but well told 2-character musical about aging .
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