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 …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 9, 2023
LAST SUMMER THIS SUMMER Written in 1976 by the late Jane Chambers, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove " which opened in 1980, NYC " is a milestone in lesbian theatre history. Chambers' name is leg…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 21, 2023
DANCING THROUGH WAR Costa Mesa's Segerstrom Center, which has presented world premieres by Alexei Ratmansky for more than a decade " including American Ballet Theatre's Of Love and Rag…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:33PM[SHARE]BETTER MAKE THAT LATER Christopher Shinn clearly understands the American consciousness. In Now or Later, a 2008 one-act which opened at the Royal Court Theatre with a fresh-faced Eddie Redm…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:45AM[SHARE]Monday, June 12, 2023
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO YOU TO SEE RAINEE BLAKE AS JONI MITCHELL LIVE During the 2018 Music Center concert, Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration Live, Peter Gabriel sent a prescient message to the a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]THIS SOUL NEEDS DOCTORING Soul Doctor is a 2010 musical about Rabbi Shlomo Carlbach, a.k.a. The Singing Rabbi and The Rock and Roll Rabbi, from his childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna to his O…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Monday, June 5, 2023
MUELLER IS COOLER IN UP-CLOSE CABARET The Wallis in Beverly Hills lays claim to being the place to see and be seen on Friday June 16 at The Wallis in Beverly Hills, as one of Broadway's brig…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 1, 2023
EVERYONE IS WELCOME AT THESE PARTIES With a fierce commitment to inclusivity and celebrating the beauty of individuality, Company XIV captivates audiences throughout Pride Month with its …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:06PM[SHARE]Monday, May 29, 2023
A NEOPHYTE BROWNSHIRT UNDER A BLUE WALL OF DEFENCE Written by June Carryl and directed by Michael Matthews, Blue is a 60-minute nailbiter which has been extended to June 5. Rogue Machine …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 25, 2023
THE SONERO, THE BETTER Here's what tipped me off that we were about to see something special: Pianist Carlos Ordiano enters with four band members ("The Razor Blades") at Los Angeles Theatre…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:33PM[SHARE]PIFFLING PIRATES OF PENZANCE POPS WITH POP The plot of The Pirates of Penzance, a satire so cutting in Victorian days, will likely come off as inane to today's spectators. Still, Arthur Sull…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 21, 2023
CELEBRATION THEATRE GOT IT RIGHT! (BUT "THEY" DIDN'T) When William Finn's autobiographical musical A New Brain opened at Lincoln Center in 1998, I couldn't understand why the reviews were…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 18, 2023
DEAR SAN FRANCISCO: A HIGH-FLYING LOVE STORY AT SAN FRANCISCO'S HISTORIC CLUB FUGAZI EXTENDED THRU DECEMBER 31, 2023 WORLD-RENOWNED CIRCUS AND ARTS COLLECTIVE, THE 7 FINGERS, CREATED THIS ON…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 10, 2023
CHEERS! If there's anything better than a cocktail before or after a Broadway show, it's a cocktail in a Broadway show. So, I'd like to propose a toast … slide your coffee table book to th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:45PM[SHARE]Monday, May 8, 2023
QUEERILY, WE ROLL ALONG From June 15-July 3, 2023, the 9th annual Queerly Festival hits The Kraine Theater (85 E 4th St) and UNDER St. Marks (94 St Marks Pl), Most performances will also be …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 2, 2023
HOP INTO SPRING Friendship is among the hardest subjects to parse, but this musical based on Arnold Lobel's "Frog and Toad" stories, considers friendship warts and all. Frog and Toad worry a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:11AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 29, 2023
After the roaring success of Pasadena Playhouse's wonderful production of Sunday in the Park with George, now comes A Little Night Music, which officially opens May 1, 2023. This is…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 27, 2023
SOMETHING WICKED THAT WAY GOES No plague can kill a great show. It's back. In a rare clash of film noir, performance art, an awesome murder mystery party, and Shakespeare, Punchdrunk's Sleep…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 25, 2023
THE BEST OSCAR GOES TO SEAN HAYES "It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view." The incomparable Oscar Levant is the subject of the hi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 18, 2023
WHAT'S SO WONDERFUL? THIS REVIVAL OF WOMAN OF THE YEAR I'm jealous of New York Musical lovers. If they want to catch a rarely produced musical from the "golden age" of Broadway (the dates of…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]HOW DO YOU CATCH A TIGER BY THE TAIL? STAGING. The eye-popping special effects of Life of Pi are reason enough to see this show, which opened this week at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Yes,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:06AM[SHARE]Monday, April 17, 2023
WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS FAT HAM Ah, the Father/Son relationship. Tough when bad and often difficult even when pop and junior love each other. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, adapted with delightful…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:11AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 9, 2023
It's fascinating to watch a new generation of Asian playwrights " Mike Lew, Qui Nguyen, Lauren Yee, Dipika Guha, Christopher Chen " writing about the quest for identity as it pertains to tra…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:56AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 8, 2023
IT'S ONLY A FLOP There's a glaring contradiction in It's Only a Play: Written by the usually crafty Terrence McNally, a 20-time Broadway playwright, this two-act love letter to Broadway t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:52AM[SHARE]I CAN'T GET THAT TASTE OUT OF MY MOUTH Get ready for a show that is all vagina and no vulva. This bloody awful musical by Big Little Theater Company is of the women, by the women and for the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 4, 2023
WHERE'S THE GRIEF? A LOT OF GOOD SHIT, BUT WE NEED MORE SHOW Grief. It almost seems to come on a daily basis. You hear people grieve over politics, a lost job, a breakup, the weather " griev…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 25, 2023
HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN There is a world premiere now playing at Actors Co-op in Hollywood that is both ambitious and successful. The Human Comedy, set in the fictional California town of Ithac…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:33PM[SHARE]LET ME IN, OR GET ME OUT? In writer/director Brynn Thayer's Let Me In, now running at the newly and spiffily remodeled Theatre 68 Arts Complex in North Hollywood, actor Jorge Garcia of L…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 22, 2023
COME FOR THE SCORE, LEAVE FOR THE BOOK Prior to Geffen Playhouse's world premiere musical The Lonely Few, a pair of orange ear-plugs in ironically loud cellophane is offered to patrons, indi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Friday, March 17, 2023
NEW TRACK FEATURES VOCALS BY KPOPÂ ICON LUNA & COMPANY LISTEN HERE WATCH THE VIDEO PREORDER & PRESAVE THE ALBUM HERE Well, we all know it happens. For whatever reasons, a show flop…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 12, 2023
LETTER FROM ONE INDUSTRY INSIDER TO ANOTHER Hullo Mick. Lady Antoinette here. Boy, I gotta thank you for inviting me to Jordon Waters and Stephanie Marrow's label influencer/release party th…
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