Saturday, October 19, 2013
PUTTING THE THEATER IN DANCE Living up to its name, Nederlands Dans Theater 1 bounded into Los Angeles last night, showing off the reasons why The Hague-based contemporary dance outfit is kn…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 15, 2013
CIRQUE'S PERKS What’s a circus without lions, tigers, and elephants? Â In the case of Cirque du Soleil's Totem, their eleventh major production in 26 years, it’s a marked impro…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:00AM[SHARE]SITE-SPECIFIC IS NOT SO SPECIFIC La Jolla Playhouse supported the trend of site-specific and immersive theater by presenting a four-day program of over 20 different performances in and aroun…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2013
STOPPARD AND GO Tom Stoppard's brilliant Travesties (1974) is literate and fiercely crafted, tackling ideas of love, wit, politics, art, theater, literature, intellectualism and whatever els…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:09PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 12, 2013
NO HALLELUJAH FOR THE LAST GOODBYE No one can deny why Jeff Buckley has achieved cult status. The coffeehouse-rock singer brought an aching, wrenching, ethereal and vulnerable quality to bot…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:44AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 8, 2013
TOO FEW Samuel D. Hunter's slice-of-life one-act, The Few, returns to familiar territory for this up-and-coming playwright. As in his previous plays, Hunter takes us to small-town Idaho; thi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 1, 2013
RELATIVITY, STAGED A trusty theater friend witnessed Einstein on the Beach at BAM in New York last year, and she told me it was not just one of the greatest theatrical experiences of her …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:51PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 29, 2013
MY KINGDOM FOR A TRANSLATION In the "What Were They Thinking?" Department, the Broad Stage has brought in a magnificently acted, thrillingly staged and cleverly edited version of Shakespeare…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:21PM[SHARE]Friday, September 27, 2013
SAFETY IN NUMBERS The production of Carmen that opened this week at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion has been seen before. Emilio Sagi’s production originated at Madrid’s Teatro Rea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2013
THE HEART OF THE MATTER Larry Kramer's blistering condemnation that chronicles the early years of the AIDS epidemic has arrived with an intimate production that highlights the urgency of the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 21, 2013
THEY COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT Once a month at the Fountain Theatre, Deborah Lawlor presents Forever Flamenco!, an assemblage of the greatest flamenco artists anywhere. Programs change eac…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:59PM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2013
NO HEART. NO BRAIN. NO NERVE. STAY HOME. Just short of insulting, a Broadway Machine-styled version of the iconic film, The Wizard of Oz, opened at the Pantages this week. Instead of writing…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:41PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 17, 2013
THERE IS NOTHING EITHER GOOD OR BAD, BUT CASTING MAKES IT SO Can it really be twenty years now that I have admired Lisa Wolpe's work? Time and again, the actress has impressed me with her ab…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:58PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 14, 2013
DOMINGO DAZZLES What do world-renowned singers do once they have reached the age of retirement? On the strength of their name, they fill cabarets and concert houses across the land with nost…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2013
NOT MUCH LIFE IN DEATH The miracle of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is that it contains so many themes relevant to today's world"the American Dream, the disconnect of father and son, a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:35PM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2013
I SAY YOU WANT THIS REVOLUTION After the Revolution is a chewy new play about family dynamics and the difficulty of making moral judgments, especially after the fact. For audiences thirsting…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:38AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 8, 2013
HEAVEN OR HELL? I surmise that opinions will be all over the map for San Francisco Opera’s production of Mefistofele, Arrigo Boito’s 1868 take on the Faust legend. To begin wi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:05AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 7, 2013
SOUND AND FURY INDEED The idea of site-specific theater"theatre which is performed in unconventional spaces compatible to the script"is nothing new, but it seems to be gaining ground. From N…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 5, 2013
A PRAIRIE THEATER COMPANION As many newer plays fail to grasp the art of storytelling, Word for Word Performing Arts Company offers compelling narratives via short stories which are performe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:46AM[SHARE]Friday, August 30, 2013
THE TITLE SAYS IT ALL The most unfortunate thing about The Unfortunates is that a lot of talent (five writers, actually), having spent three years developing this new hybrid-musical, lacked …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 29, 2013
TO THINE OWN SELF BE SHREW What do you get when you cross Carl Perkins, a biker, and Chris Isaak? In David Ivers' rendition of The Taming of the Shrew, that rockabilly man with a sympathetic…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:37AM[SHARE]Monday, August 26, 2013
NOT PLAIN BUT TOO LIQUID In her tale of two slaves who seek passage back to Africa in 1791 Rhode Island, Naomi Wallace has constructed a compelling narrative based on true events and people.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 25, 2013
GOOD PEOPLE GETS BAY AREA PREMIERE Having seen productions of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People at both the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles and Steppenwolf in Chicago, I can attest that thi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 24, 2013
A LOVERLY LITTLE LADY The 1956 musical My Fair Lady, based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, was so transplendent in production values that the myriad subsequent revivals all strive for th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 22, 2013
AUDRA MCDONALD MAKES A RARE VISIT TO SAN FRANCISCO As if San Francisco Symphony's (SFS) annual opening night galas were not the most anticipated events of any year, SFS and Music Director Mi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:31PM[SHARE]Monday, August 12, 2013
A PRODUCTION OF AND IN NO MAN'S LAND It seems that people are forever cursed by their feeble attempts to make their lives neat and tidy. Whatever illusion of structure is created"a calendar,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:08AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 11, 2013
YEAH, I CAN DIG IT The third installment of monologuist Don Reed's autobiographical coming-of-age trilogy has been extended yet again at the Marsh, and following on the heels of this San Fra…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:36AM[SHARE]Friday, August 9, 2013
CAL SHAKES' BIGGEST FAN The titular character in Oscar Wilde’s play Lady Windermere’s Fan is a vivacious young woman, married only two years, who never coughs or displays any oth…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2013
EXTRA INCHES East Berlin expat Hedwig was forced to leave a rather important bit of himself"later herself"behind the Wall in order to pass physical exams and immigrate to America with the G.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 3, 2013
STAGE NOIR In many ways, the stage adaptation of James Cain's novel, Double Indemnity, is a radical departure from the iconic film from director/writer Billy Wilder. The film"co-written by C…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 25, 2013
I GET THE PICTURE Pageant of the Masters' The Big Picture is perhaps the most three-dimensional idea from the fertile mind of director Diane Challis Davy. Continuing the 80-year tradition of…
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