Friday, January 5, 2024
MJ WANTS TO BE STARTIN' SOMETHIN' " AND DOES MJ The Musical, now on its first national tour, raises the bar for the bio-musical. It far exceeds a mere revue of Michael Jackson's iconic music…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:11PM[SHARE]A GORGEOUS SHOW! An absolutely do-not-miss show at Playhouse 46 at St. Luke's, Make Me Gorgeous! is the reworking of several books by Kenneth aka Kate Marlowe, who has been described as one …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 4, 2024
In Tiny Little Town " a new Musical Comedy reimagining Ukrainian playwright Nikolai Gogol's 19th-century satire The Government Inspector, a small town in 1970s America is thrown into chaos w…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:27PM[SHARE]Monday, January 1, 2024
Diabolical comedy, stunning terror, razor-sharp wit and extraordinary, soaring music. A Noise Within presents Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the dark, brooding, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:45PM[SHARE]Friday, December 22, 2023
David Dean Bottrell returns to Rogue Machine on January 10, 2024 with his latest critically acclaimed, recently off-Broadway solo show, David Dean Bottrell: The Death of Me Yet. An uplifting…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 21, 2023
Running invisible endurance feats, the characters of Anton Chekhov expose what Henry David Thoreau called "lives of quiet desperation." When the good doctor's creations, compassionately but …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 20, 2023
For one night only on February 18, 2024, Manhattan Concert Productions (MCP) will present the next installment of its Broadway Series: The beloved musical Children of Eden. Broadway veterans…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:16PM[SHARE]Friday, October 6, 2023
A FEATHER IN ARYE GROSS'S CAP Playwright Anna Ouyang Moench uses the setting of a wooded area " beautifully designed at Odyssey Theatre by Mark Guirguis " as the backdrop of this beaut…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:39PM[SHARE]A FULFILLING FOLLIES One night? I mean, ONE night? Then again, the reunion in Follies we witness takes place on one night as well. And for those at said reunion and those of us lucky enough …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 3, 2023
AN AMAZINGÂ INCIDENT Meet Christopher Francis Boone, a wannabe bloodhound who has significant social, behavioral and communication challenges; we assume the unnamed disorder is on the auti…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:56AM[SHARE]San Francisco Playhouse has begun its 2023-24 Season with the West Coast Premiere of the romantic comedy Nollywood Dreams, directed by Bay Area theatre veteran Margo Hall. Written by Ghan…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 30, 2023
#METOO FOR MEASURE I can't imagine the work that writer/director Jessica Kubzansky put into the world premiere of her immersive, hybrid-theater, play-within-a-play Measure STILL for Measure.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:31PM[SHARE]Friday, September 29, 2023
Sony Masterworks Broadway has released the Original Cast Recording to The Time Traveller's Wife: The Musical, available everywhere now. The musical is now in previews and opens on Novembe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:20PM[SHARE]Monday, September 25, 2023
THE CUBAN THEATRICAL PHENOMENON OF THE LAST DECADE ARRIVES IN NYC One of my favorite places to see plays in NYC is also NYC's most prominent Latino theatre companies: Repertorio Español. …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 20, 2023
LIBERTY FOR WOLVES IS DEATH TO THE LAMBS Gabby Momah makes a star turn as Ash, a conflicted non-binary adoptive parent and up-and-coming boxer in Hansol Jung's Wolf Play, a fascinating, thri…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 12, 2023
In 2010, I witnessed the work of playwright Terrell Alvin McCraney for the first time. I knew immediately that his would prove to be an important voice in the theater. Since that fateful day…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:29PM[SHARE]GREAT STUFF IS COOKING IN THIS KITCHEN The world premiere of new coming-of-age musical, HELL'S KITCHEN, with music and lyrics by New York's own 15-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys and pl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:34PM[SHARE]OUR DEAR DEAD PLAYWRIGHTING In Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, which opened last Sunday at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, feral feminism from sociopathic fledglings starts out fantastic but goes off the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 7, 2023
THE GOSPEL AT GETTY Created by Lee Breuer and Bob Telson, The Gospel at Colonus " a Greek tragedy turned Pentecostal revival " had its original 1983 production at the fBrooklyn Academy of Mu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:14PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 3, 2023
AN UNSTOPPABLE TRAJECTORY Ruskin Group Theatre's season-opener, a landmark drama from 1955, exploded into relevance last Friday night. A rarity worth a return, Arthur Miller's drama of an in…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 31, 2023
CABARET JUST GETS BETTER WITH AGE Cabaret was and remains one of the boldest and most innovative experiments in the history of musical theater, a ravishing work that has neither lost its pow…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 20, 2023
GREAT (F.) SCOTT! If you love literature, have fond memories of being read to or of reading to others, and feel, as so many do, that F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby " the story of Jay…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 17, 2023
A composite play by four playwrights, Mecca Is Burning " which closes Sunday at the Harlem School of the Arts " confronts social and racial themes through the use of protest poetry, dialogue…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 15, 2023
DON'T MIZ IT Unlike most of the characters in the blockbuster sung-through musical Les Misérables, the show itself will never die. Consistently presented either on Broadway, national tou…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 3, 2023
A PIPELINE TO THE TROUBLED SOUL One of our era's greatest dramatists, Dominique Morisseau (Skeleton Crew, Ain't Too Proud) sheds light on the complicated realities of urban African-Americ…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:37PM[SHARE]Monday, July 31, 2023
CRAB'S LAST TAPE Ah, Theatre of the Absurd. a place where characters can grapple with existentialism, that which is the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent det…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:35PM[SHARE]Monday, July 24, 2023
PERFECTLY MARVELOUS You better tell Momma and everybody else to come see Wildsong's production of Cabaret, which opened last weekend in Ocean Beach. When you take into consideration that thi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 23, 2023
GOOD NEWS: PIPPIN'S A PIP Some shows stay young by never growing up: With a book by Roger O. Hirson, this 1972 hit show originally directed by Bob Fosse is the perfect example of a musical t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:09PM[SHARE]THEATER AS THERAPY The waiting room at a psychiatrist's office is an emotional airlock between the chaos of the outside world and the sanctuary of the therapy office. It's public yet private…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Monday, July 17, 2023
THE TEMPEST AS RADIO PLAY One can only wonder why productions of Shakespeare's The Tempest have been sprouting up like magical vines in the jungle. Is it because the tale is about revenge as…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 16, 2023
ANTSY The subject of "haves" and "have-nots" in the theater is nothing new, having been explored from The Greeks to Molière. More recent hallmarks are the Industrial Age's The Hairy Ape by …
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