Tuesday, October 22, 2024
CIVIL UNREST When I walked into the very small and incredibly intimate Broadwater Studio Theatre, I immediately thought about Sam Shepard's Fool for Love, about a couple of loners looking to…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 17, 2024
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. " W. C. Fields I highly recommend the World Premiere of Robbin, From the Hood, which opened last Friday at Road Theatre. It is playwright …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 15, 2024
BACKSTAGE BROADWAY BACKSTABBING: ALL ABOUT THE WISDOM OF EVE Any fan of film noir most assuredly has seen the 1950 major motion picture All About Eve, which shares the story of a young Broad…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:09PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 12, 2024
VOCALIZING VAMPIRES & THE UNDULATING UNDEAD BITE ME! SUCK ME! ROCK ME! From Dracula to Dark Shadows, vampires have always been an entertainment staple during the Halloween season. This y…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]As a female journalist myself, I was curious to learn about the life of Anne Royall, a former maid who married her employer, a landed gentleman in the early 1800s when such marriages were ra…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 10, 2024
AN ELECTRIFYING TESLA Much has been written about Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating current, radio and so much more, ever since his name became one of the w…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2024
A MASTER OF MUSICAL THEATER; TWENTY-SEVEN SONGS; THREE GREAT PERFORMERS; ONE TERRIFIC REVUE 3 Faces of Steve: Sondheim in Concert at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble is a revue that spans the breadt…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2024
AN AUTHENTIC 70S NEW YORK DISCO EXPERIENCE FROM DUSK TO DAWN On Saturday September 7, 2024, live entertainment and hospitality trailblazer Spiegelworld and Caesars Entertainment hosted a dus…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:17AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 11, 2024
ABSINTHE I FELL FOR YOU For a most salacious evening of "adult" delights, head on over to Absinthe at Caesar's Palace which is surely the #1 Greatest Show in Las Vegas history (it has pla…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:08PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Now playing at the Los Angeles LGBT Center's Renberg Theatre is the world premiere of Happy Fall: A Queer Stunt Spectacular. Performed by an enthusiastic and energetic ensemble, and writt…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2024
For 26 years, pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder has conjured the spirits of George Gershwin, Frederic Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, Leonard Bernstein, Piotr Ilyic…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:20PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 7, 2024
A TIME-TRAVELING UNBROKEN BLOSSOMS REVEALS BIGOTRY AND MISOGYNY Before seeing the world premiere of Unbroken Blossoms by Philip W. Chung at East West Players, I had never heard of the 1919 A…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:29PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 23, 2024
GOOD LESSONS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES Sometimes life throws you for a loop when fun times take a turn in unexpected ways, changing your whole life in an instant. Such is the story at the cente…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2024
NICE ASP! Troubadour Theater Company is a free-wheeling, no holds barred, commedia dell'arte-flavored, slapstick-driven Los Angeles based ensemble of actors, musicians, and comedians that ha…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:40AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 8, 2024
FRANTIC ANTICS FUEL THE HUMOR Terrence McNally updated his 1986 Off-Broadway comedy It's Only a Play for Broadway in 2014 featuring an all-star cast including F. Murray Abraham, Matthew B…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:37AM[SHARE]Monday, May 27, 2024
YOU'RE THE TOPSY TURVY During the forced shutdown of theaters due to the COVID pandemic, The Actors' Gang in Culver City kept its employees on salary and health insurance, adapted their outr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:51AM[SHARE]Friday, May 24, 2024
UNSAVORY IS SAVORY INDEED Those of us who grew up on the Westside of Los Angeles certainly remember hanging out on the Venice and Santa Monica beaches when we were kids. Times then were as i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2024
A DICTATOR DICTATES MUSIC IN STALIN'S MASTER CLASS In a time when politics collide with state and federal budgets for the arts, Stalin's Master Class " a wildly comic, music-filled ride b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:27AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 14, 2024
TIME TO CHECK-IN TO HOT L HOLLYWOOD Written by Roger Mathey based on his own personal experience working in a three-star hotel in Los Angeles for over a decade, The Night Auditor takes place…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 8, 2024
WOMEN AND SPACE: THE JOURNEY SO FAR The World Premiere of Singularities or the Computers of Venus, written and directed by Laura Stribling, runs through Sunday, June 2 at The Road Theatre in…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2024
IT'S MAN AGAINST AI IN MAINTENANCE With the current threat of AI-generated digital characters taking over roles portrayed by human actors, it's timely for Peter Ritt to comically explore …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:50AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 5, 2024
HOPE IS A WAKING DREAM " Aristotle Close-up magic by master illusionist, storyteller and seeming mind-reader Helder Guimarães is mesmerizing and dazzling in The Hope Theory, an 80-minu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 2, 2024
THE DECONSTRUCTED PLAY'S THE THING William Shakespeare's Hamlet recounts the story of the ghost of Denmark's murdered king who wants his son, Prince Hamlet, to kill his uncle Claudius, the m…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Friday, April 26, 2024
A MONSTER MASH Like most boomers, I was raised watching black-and-white horror movies. Both frightening and amusing, those giant ants, grasshoppers and spiders attacking some innocent town w…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2024
A ROYAL KING From the moment Irish actor extraordinaire Pat Kinevane appears out of the darkness as if in a dream, his lithe body moving as seductively as a snake into a sexy Argentine Tango…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:39PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 13, 2024
I FEEL YA, OPHELIA Acclaimed playwright, director, and actor Stefan Marks has outdone himself taking on three roles in his World Premiere play Ophelia, now at the Odyssey Theatre through May…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:36PM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2024
WITNESSES FOR THE PROSECUTION Taking place within the confines of a witness room in Manhattan Criminal Court, four obdurate NYPD officers who have "done all this before and know what to say"…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:17PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 31, 2024
A VIEW TO GREAT THEATER Theatre Palisades has a hit on their boards with a true-to-life production of Arthur Miller's landmark drama from 1955, A View from the Bridge, sharply directed by Ca…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:23AM[SHARE]Friday, March 29, 2024
FOR THEATERGOERS DESIRING A COAT OF LOVE, THIS SHOW IS BESPOKEN FOR Sometimes friends or even co-workers can become more like family than your relatives. Such is the case in Wolf Mankowitz's…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:34PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 2, 2024
A FASCINATING DIVERSE UPDATE TO CHEKHOV'S THREE SISTERS In 1900, Anton Chekhov wrote the play Three Sisters, centering around siblings both very similar and remarkably different who grew up …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 10, 2024
YOU MIGHT WANNA MISS THIS TRAIN Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 psychological film noir thriller Strangers on a Train, which he directed and produced to mixed reviews, was based on the 1950 novel…
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