Wednesday, November 20, 2024
WHAT'S YOUR STORY? In the "It's Not the Story, It's in How You Tell It" Department, an incredible number of shows I saw in the last month have incredible tales to tell, but falter in their c…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Friday, November 15, 2024
SOMETHING WICKED THAT WAY GOES No plague can kill a great show. It came back after COVID. In a rare clash of film noir, performance art, an awesome murder mystery party, and Shakespeare, Pun…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 6, 2024
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE'S RADIANT PERICLES All the indicators promised that it'd be special: after a 30-year lull, England's Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) e…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:17PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 2, 2024
THE WALLIS HOSTS EXTRAORDINARY THEATER Handspring Puppet Company (War Horse) joins Cape Town's Baxter Theatre to bring Life & Times of Michael K to the Bram Goldsmith Theater at Th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:15PM[SHARE]Friday, November 1, 2024
NOW, THERE'S OH SO MUCH MORE TO DESIRE Since struggle for power among the classes is one of the main themes in Tennessee Williams' still-shocking A Streetcar Named Desire, it makes perfect s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2024
A RUFUS CONVERT During Rufus Wainwright's homey, intimate concert last night at the packed 500-seat theater at The Wallis in Beverly Hills, he chuckled that he didn't really want to do A Ruf…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 30, 2024
L'Chaim. "To Life" indeed. There's a ton of it, not to mention humor, sorrow and wisdom in the 1964 Stein/Harnick/Bock musical triumph, Fiddler on the Roof, which opens soon at La Mirada The…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 24, 2024
A SCREENING TO PUCKER UP FOR Following an acclaimed summertime run at London's Barbican Theatre, the cinema release of the smash-hit production KISS ME, KATEÂ brings the magic of this musi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 20, 2024
I'M DREAMING OF A PSYCHEDLIC CHRISTMAS Well, Halloween is here soon, but you know what's really scary " aside from Christmas items for sale at Costco before Valentine's Day? By Thanksgiving,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:05PM[SHARE]GLORIA, HALLELUJAH! Unless you can see Gloria at The Chance Theater tonight or tomorrow, this may be a review of record, as it ran only two weeks after opening night, but I tell you this is …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 16, 2024
In Symphony of Rats, a President of the United States has strange encounters of the phantasmagorical kind. Surrounded by his presidential aides, he plunges into…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Directed by Richard Israel, (Civility of Albert Cashier, Floyd Collins, 110 in the Shade), King of Pangea, the spellbinding new musical with book, music, and lyrics by Martin Storrow, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 13, 2024
IDIOT IS AS IDIOT DOES Unlike the jukebox musicals Mamma Mia and Escape to Margaritaville, which invented stories around the songs of ABBA and Jimmy Buffett, American Idiot " …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:41AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 12, 2024
ONE OF THE ALL-TIME FEEL-GOOD MUSICALS COMES TO THE CARPENTER CENTER Ain't Misbehavin'Â is a sizzling celebration of Fats Waller's music " songs that he made famous in a career that ranged…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:41PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 5, 2024
Inside a one-room apartment on the outskirts of Seoul, Oliver (Darren Criss) lives a happily quiet life listening to jazz records and caring for his favorite plant. But what else is there to…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 28, 2024
LIVING IT UP IN HER LIVING ROOM In the shimmering galaxy of cabaret, few stars sparkle with the vivacity and brilliance of Jessica Vosk, who, at 40, is the real deal. You're talking about a …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 26, 2024
IT'S OK TO GET SAUCED FOR STUNNING SAUCY STRIPPERS AND SPECTACULAR SAUCERS, OR MAY THE TORSO BE WITH YOU Forget about Broadway or the latest Marvel Comic movie. The fun, hip and cool burlesq…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:49PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2024
SEEING ONCE ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH Ironically, the real-life love affair between collaborators Glen Hansard, an Irish singer-songwriter, and Markéta Irglová, a Czech songwriter, fizzled afte…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 21, 2024
IT TICKS, IT BOOMS, IT EXPLODES! Theatre Palisades has struck gold with its astoundingly entertaining and moving production of Jonathan Larson's Tick, Tick… BOOM! Expanding the cast from t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2024
YOU'LL WANT TO SEE THIS CLOVER AND CLOVER AGAIN There's a wonderful new show playing at the Cinegrill Theater at the gorgeous Hollywood Roosevelt that is not so easy to shoehorn into a simpl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2024
TRYING TO MAKE LIFE BETTER AT ANY COSTCO Head north to the small town of Lewiston, Idaho, and you'll discover how the town got its name. One of the town's main attractions is the Lewis and C…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 15, 2024
NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED Take a look at the highly decorated diorama just before you go upstairs to the Henry Murray Theatre for one of the most exciting world premieres you will ever se…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:04PM[SHARE]Friday, September 13, 2024
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL I love how the press notes for A Noise Within's stupendous revival of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth noted a quote from original director Elia Kazan: "I overh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2024
A MUSICAL THAT'S TOO CIVIL TO RESONATE Union soldier Jeffrey N. Davis (no relation to President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis), is on the hunt for his best friend, Alb…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:17AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 8, 2024
THIS BAT COMES OUT SWINGING Bat Boy: The Musical is finally returning to Los Angeles for a run at Morgan"Wixson Theatre in Santa Monica September 28 through October 13, 2024. This outrageous…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:29PM[SHARE]Friday, September 6, 2024
THE DOUBLE V GETS A DOUBLE D It's a shame that Carole Eglash"Kosoff's period drama The Double V is such a lackluster, overwritten, repetitive piece of didacticism. The story is one which …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Chicago's Shattered Globe Theatre has unveiled its 2024-25 season, launching in October with its 34th season opener, the Midwest premiere of Sarah Ruhl's bewitching new dark comedy, Becky…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:26PM[SHARE]Monday, August 26, 2024
Rubicon Theatre, Ventura County's not-for-profit professional theatre company, has just announced the schedule for the company's 26th season. Rubicon's 2024-2025 six-show season, entitled "D…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:52AM[SHARE]Friday, August 16, 2024
Dido of Idaho, now playing at Atwater Village, is yet more proof that Echo Theater Company really knows how to pick bold original scripts. And usually they have a heart of darkness somewhere…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 13, 2024
In his remembrance of Stephen Sondheim, Stage and Cinema's Jason Mannino wrote, "Sondheim delved fearlessly into the human psyche and condition, creating rich, complex worlds and characters …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:47AM[SHARE]Monday, August 12, 2024
Geffen Playhouse and Steppenwolf Theatre Company announce the joint Chicago/LA cast of Noises Off Written by Michael Frayn Directed by Anna D. Shapiro A Co-Production with Steppe…
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