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…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 11, 2024
ALL SCRIPTS SHOULD BE THIS GROWN UP One of the most riveting and original pieces of theater I have ever seen, The Grown-Ups is now playing outdoors around a campfire near you. Funny, spooky,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:44AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 4, 2024
CHICKEN STORIES IS A FOWL BALL! There are more than 8 billion people on the earth. But did you know that there are more chickens on the planet than human beings? And you know that we're not …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:55PM[SHARE]Friday, July 26, 2024
A SOLID 10 FOR 13 San Diego Musical Theatre's Pre-Professional production of 13: The Musical, with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown (Parade, Last Five Years), left me positively giddy …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2024
SIZING UP THE BROTHERS SIZE IS JUST PART OF ITS APPEAL When I first saw a play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, I wrote, "It is thrilling to hear the poetic dialogue of a propitious new American pl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 13, 2024
THE WORST BEST MAN MAKES THE BEST MAN SHOW A GUARANTEED WINNER We're attending a wedding. Every viewer in the audience is an attendee. The vows have already been exchanged, and now it's time…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 11, 2024
One of my favorite places to see plays in NYC is also NYC's most prominent Latino theatre companies: Repertorio Español. Performed in Spanish with easy-to-read supertitles in English, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 9, 2024
"There's more to her than anyone could ever infer " You can kick my words to the curb. I think it's time that we heard from her." An ice-cold, high-octane adaptation of Euripides' play writt…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 6, 2024
The People vs. Lenny Bruce, presented by Cause Célèbre Productions and Henderson Productions, is the third segment of All The Court's A Stage, a series of plays that are based on seven of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:42PM[SHARE]Friday, July 5, 2024
A NICE EXPAT ON THE HEAD Now, here's a fascinating show. Two former lawyers (the best kind I say) and whip-smart writers, Dominique Roberts and Candace Leung, wrote and starred in Expatriate…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:45AM[SHARE]THERE MAY BE SOMETHING WRONG WITH CYRUS, BUT NOT SO MUCH HIS SHOW Meet Cyrus Deboo. An adult actor who, against all the odds and ends of a traditional Persian upbringing, blossomed into an o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 3, 2024
WHO WERE THE WOMEN OF BALLET RUSSES? The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX is turning to its esteemed Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts to re-contextualize Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Wom…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 2, 2024
ALL THE RIGHT MOVES I'm rather certain that most folks in the U.S.A. have no idea that Chicago is one of the best theater towns in the world. The reason for this is storefront theaters, whic…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:36PM[SHARE]Monday, July 1, 2024
A MUSICAL THAT REACHES FOR NEW HEIGHTS Built during the Depression between 1930 and 1931, the Empire State Building became the world's tallest office building"surpassing the Chrysler Buildin…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 29, 2024
AN EVENT TO MAKE YOU HIGH No doubt spurred by William Randolph Hearst's yellow-journalism against pot (he invested in wood-pulp newsprint so he didn't want paper made from hemp), a church gr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:35PM[SHARE]Friday, June 28, 2024
SUPER FEMMINA SUPER To say that I was fascinated with Femmina Super is an understatement. The show is subtitled, "A Modern Opera," which normally has me running in the other direction, as ne…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:03PM[SHARE]Friday, June 21, 2024
A PREMISE THAT DOESN'T SUCK I have dealt with PR firms for 15 years now, both in (mostly) and out of the arts world. Some may say that public relations is a strategic communication practice …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 20, 2024
What Happens When a Right-Wing White Woman Wakes up Trapped in the Body of a Black Man? LA's beloved and acclaimed writer and theatre performer Paul Outlaw presents his latest work BBC (Big …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 16, 2024
GET DOWN .. TO THE HOTTEST REVUE IN TOWN Created and directed by Fritz Brekeller, this feminocentric musical revue of 70s hits, Foxy Ladies Love Boogie 70s Explosion!, celebrates an amazing …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 13, 2024
The Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation presents Help is on the Way: 30th Anniversary Concert & Gala on Sunday, July 14, 2024 at the Marines' Memorial Theater (concert) and Beacon Grand Hotel …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2024
SOMETHING WICKED THAT WAY GOES When this megahit closed during COVID, and then came roaring back, I wrote "No plague can kill a great show." Now, having welcomed over two million visitors in…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 8, 2024
A JOY TO BEHOLD COMES TO MCCALLUM ONE NIGHT ONLY, SATURDAY JUNE 15 AT 8 The jazz world has been abuzz about the 24-year-old New Yorker Samara Joy since she won the Sarah Vaughan Internationa…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Sugar Daddy, a new production of comedian and actor Sam Morrison's hilariously funny, unexpectedly moving one-man show, will play the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Be…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:14PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 19, 2024
MICHAEL SHANNON STARS IN A TANTALIZING TURRET If you had to define the word turret, what would an easy definition be? Well, I love castles, so I know a turret was often the corner where a gu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Friday, May 10, 2024
A TWIN-TWIN PRODUCTION In Elizabethan England the entertainments that closed the Christmas season (the Twelfth day) completed the festivities with a topsy-turvy role reversal, peasants prete…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 2, 2024
World Premiere at Moving Arts Theatre The world-premiere of Leviticus Jelks' debut play, My White Husband, directed by Melissa Coleman-Reed, opens May 18 in Los Angeles at the Moving …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 28, 2024
MEAN GIRLS MEETS THE THIRD REICH Three teenage girls sit at a table in a bunker of some kind bored out of their minds tasting food three times a day before it is sent off to Hitler. They hav…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:49PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 20, 2024
ONCE ON THIS PRAIRIE Developed at Signature Theatre in Virginia, the new musical Gun & Powder has stormed into Paper Mill Playhouse with enough energy to light the Manhattan skyline. The…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2024
A COLOSSAL LEN CARIOU MAKES ANY DAY A GOOD DAY FOR TUESDAYS I have seen many a famous performer hit the stage in their senior years with a cabaret or theater performance, something I usually…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2024
WEIMAR, YOU ASK? HERE'S THE ANSWER Cabaret the musical, opening on Broadway in a transformed theater, may sound exciting, but here's a highly recommended event for those who crave complete i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:31AM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2024
A DO-NOT-MISS REGIONAL PREMIERE Martin McDonagh's Hangmen at San Jose Stage Company I was lucky enough to catch the limited run of Martin McDonagh's tense and very funny Hangmen on Broadway,…
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